ok, so having a rough day with all this that is going on in my life. Right now it's hard to see this as God is pruning my branches and that's how I like to look at things but right now it's impossible!
I feel hurt by my church and I feel like just because I chose to speak up that now I am being shushed! People say that we have been soo peaceful for so long but that is because I finally have decided I can't keep quiet anymore because I dont like the way things are going. So now i'm roughling feathers and causing people to think and now they say I am dividing leadership and dividing the mops group?
This isnt a dictatorship people! ugh!!!
Jesus did not want us to be content with our lives. he wanted us to constantly being doing hard things for him. And maybe.. just maybe.. one of these prunings needs to be your church.
ReplyDeleteI know I said this in a text, but a church.. a house of the Lord needs to be such that. A place where you can encounter God. Where you can be comfortable with yourself because you know you have loving Christian support which you can't necessarily get from the world. Where you are respected for who you are and your thoughts. A church should not be a place for gossip, for drama, for rumors, for hurt feelings. A church and its members should be where you can turn to when nothing else in this world helps. (but we can always turn to God)
So I really encourage you to pray about this. Be open to new things. Maybe open to a new church. It would be tough, leaving all that you know for a ton of years, but during this season of change in your life, who knows where God is leading you too.