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Ok, please don't get mad at me, i merely want to point out a couple of things. I'm not throwing stones here i'm just simply bringing to light something's that may have gone unnoticed. i also want you to know i'm not pointing fingers, in truth i maybe the biggest contributor to the crime.
Ok, first let me say that i believe that many of us, though our intentions are good, maybe over looking each other because of disagreements that we've had in the past. In truth i suppose that one reason i'm able to say this is because i know that i have been guilty of it myself. i've said things and i have been insensitive in some of my comments, i've been critical of some of the messages that have been written. i do have a vision in my mind of churches that goes about in little groups competing with each other for popularity and prestige. i also have seen the ones that may not fit into many of those groups become shunned and dishearten. The truth is the biggest reason i've enjoyed being apart of this church was because at least i have a voice to say my peace. In the beginning a lot of my criticism may have been harsh, which in turn caused it to be received as hatefulness. While rereading some of my messages or comments i shrink with discomfort at how brutal my words were.
Still as i've watched this church over the last 20 plus months i'm touched by the pouring in of honest and God loving children of our Lord. The constant gathering of the most loving people in the world has lightened my heart and shown me so many specks of light that i'm no longer blinded by the mass. i've found just like in the big city where the stars are seldom seen it doesn't mean that the stars have gone away, its just hard to see them because of the mass. But (and here's my but again), i also see how so many loving people have gotten caught up in the mass. That bothers me. Please don't think that i'm excluding myself in this, please know the reason i'm so critical of so many things is because of what's in my own heart. My eyes have been constantly covered in the mud and that's the reason i'm able to see so many things. Try as i may to overcome my faults there have been more times than i can count that i've had to wash off mud from the same mud hole.
My point is that in reality we have all fallen victim in one way or another of living in this same mud hole, and while others can see clearly now, there are so many who are clueless of the mud they walk around in. The pain that this causes some of the others that walk amongst us is also blinded by the stain. I admit that i've been able to see their pain since i was a child. For the longest time it kept me from coming to visit our Lord, because it hurt way too much to go and watch the suffering of the ones that needed the love, scorned by the ones that preach about it. In truth this is one of the biggest reason why so many call us hypocrites.
You know i like to question many of the traditions of the churches. i watch as some preach against dancing and many others things, oh, there are so many yokes churches place upon their listeners. i wonder sometimes out loud why they never read about the King that embarrassed his wife, the one that was after our Lord's heart. i also watch as the gift of love has been taking away from some who try and teach about it and how it's destroyed their congregations. There are some churches that pretend that the First Forgiver never came and because of that they've never learned to forgive. I believe it's their war we are fighting today. it seems to me that every yoke and stain that each church puts upon His children, in the end, is it's reason for demise.
I know, i know, i protest too much, but don't you think it's funny that we as christian continue to plead with the first generation that He called His own to read the book of Isaiah, yet some how we, the second generation continue to ignore the book of James. If i have offended anyone please forgive me, for i may not know what i am doing.
be a blessing,
bubba
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Yes, we are all guilty of being mean and critcal in our remarks and comments , not only here in this blogsite but also in our lives at large. So often we are so critical of the government, the society, the church, our friends , our family, our jobs, and so forth. I am also guilty of this ! 
Silverpen