I am going to start doing it like Changedagain, put the quote under the answer, I like that better, So here is my answer to my bro kBOY:
THIS IS one of the reasons I like it out here on the lesser level, I can just get up Sunday morning and choose which church I want to go to. If I want to go Saturday and there is church with a Saturday service, I just go. If I want to go and visit the monk farm, if I want to go and hang out with some holy roller Pentecostals and eat some fried chicken and home cooked vegetables, I just do it. if i want to go that Sunday to see some friends in a church I walked out of because i didn't like the political idealism of the pastor and let him know, I walk in the church and hang out, respectfully with my budds, He might sneer at me, but he knows better to do much more than that.
See, we is free out cheer. We are Americans and I am even blessed even more because I am a SOUTHERNER, in the NEW SOUTH, the last vestige holding onto our freedom. But that is I will get off that subject. What I am saying, I hope the Living Word will shake off all the madness and wake up, or just listen to the little nagging voice you hear in the back of your mind somewhere, that is saying "come out of her, my people."
But anyway, I live in a city that has lots of diverse churches, lots of diverse people, I was going to a church with lots of Jamacan people, I don't think i will go there now, my wife can't dig my rogue Christianity and I have been "touching God's anointing lately," even my wife and me go to different churches. And it is ALL COOL to do that. Freedom, FREEDOM. "I HAVE BEEN TO THE MOUNTAIN, THANK GOD ALL MIGHTY, I AM FREE AT LAST." By the way, I met the guy that made that statement. I didn't get to meet John Robert Stevens, but I have met some folks in my travels since I scaled the wall.
kBOY Wrote:
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> LARRYB:
>
> With reference to your discrepancies between the
> talk and the walk, my wife was fooled into
> believing the two were one and the same.
>
> I had left TLW a number of years before, but
> because my wife was still associated with it, our
> ‘friends’ who remained would concede to
> fellowship with us on her behalf, and with the
> hopes that my exposure to them would cause me to
> come to my senses and return.
>
> There was a point a few years ago when my wife had
> finally reached ‘critical mass’ over a number
> of issues, which also happened to coincide with a
> word to ‘not break ranks’ with those who had
> already left the fellowship or who may in the
> future. They were to be thanked for their service
> and merrily sent on their way, no harm/no foul/no
> weirdness attached. My wife saw this as her
> perfect exit strategy, and actually submitted her
> resignation via email, had nothing but words of
> praise for her time spent, and even called all of
> our closest friends to notify them.
>
> The cordiality did not last long. Soon there were
> no more dinner invites or get-togethers of any
> kind. At first, my wife was somewhat taken aback,
> but eventually had to concede that this had been
> the pattern all along with anyone who left.
> There’s a lot to be said about being
> consistent.
>
> Fruit born of the ‘tree of separation’ knows
> only to separate, and a kingdom divided against
> itself cannot stand. This is the legacy of TLW--a
> movement that devours its own young.
THIS IS one of the reasons I like it out here on the lesser level, I can just get up Sunday morning and choose which church I want to go to. If I want to go Saturday and there is church with a Saturday service, I just go. If I want to go and visit the monk farm, if I want to go and hang out with some holy roller Pentecostals and eat some fried chicken and home cooked vegetables, I just do it. if i want to go that Sunday to see some friends in a church I walked out of because i didn't like the political idealism of the pastor and let him know, I walk in the church and hang out, respectfully with my budds, He might sneer at me, but he knows better to do much more than that.
See, we is free out cheer. We are Americans and I am even blessed even more because I am a SOUTHERNER, in the NEW SOUTH, the last vestige holding onto our freedom. But that is I will get off that subject. What I am saying, I hope the Living Word will shake off all the madness and wake up, or just listen to the little nagging voice you hear in the back of your mind somewhere, that is saying "come out of her, my people."
But anyway, I live in a city that has lots of diverse churches, lots of diverse people, I was going to a church with lots of Jamacan people, I don't think i will go there now, my wife can't dig my rogue Christianity and I have been "touching God's anointing lately," even my wife and me go to different churches. And it is ALL COOL to do that. Freedom, FREEDOM. "I HAVE BEEN TO THE MOUNTAIN, THANK GOD ALL MIGHTY, I AM FREE AT LAST." By the way, I met the guy that made that statement. I didn't get to meet John Robert Stevens, but I have met some folks in my travels since I scaled the wall.
kBOY Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> LARRYB:
>
> With reference to your discrepancies between the
> talk and the walk, my wife was fooled into
> believing the two were one and the same.
>
> I had left TLW a number of years before, but
> because my wife was still associated with it, our
> ‘friends’ who remained would concede to
> fellowship with us on her behalf, and with the
> hopes that my exposure to them would cause me to
> come to my senses and return.
>
> There was a point a few years ago when my wife had
> finally reached ‘critical mass’ over a number
> of issues, which also happened to coincide with a
> word to ‘not break ranks’ with those who had
> already left the fellowship or who may in the
> future. They were to be thanked for their service
> and merrily sent on their way, no harm/no foul/no
> weirdness attached. My wife saw this as her
> perfect exit strategy, and actually submitted her
> resignation via email, had nothing but words of
> praise for her time spent, and even called all of
> our closest friends to notify them.
>
> The cordiality did not last long. Soon there were
> no more dinner invites or get-togethers of any
> kind. At first, my wife was somewhat taken aback,
> but eventually had to concede that this had been
> the pattern all along with anyone who left.
> There’s a lot to be said about being
> consistent.
>
> Fruit born of the ‘tree of separation’ knows
> only to separate, and a kingdom divided against
> itself cannot stand. This is the legacy of TLW--a
> movement that devours its own young.