Who is your Church

I am reading and thinking alot on some very profound things that Amy has blogged about church. She and her husband are some of our closest friends, they are both highly prophetic, God's mystics, and profound writers, they know how to capture the heart of God in words, probably because they spend so much time in his presence and will follow Him to the end of the earth on a moments notice.  I just finished the first and second installment on church and had to stop before reading the third because I want to think more on the first 2. Unlike Andrew my brain doesn't get turbo-charged with too much info, it just gets confused.

Some of my favourite sentences, so far, are,

"Especially in the last 10 years, He has been restoring to the today a living knowledge of what it means to be the mystical body of Christ."

"I have had to really learn how to forgive the parts of the church that frustrated or rejected me - and God ESPECIALLY uses rejection as a way of growing spiritual maturity in people. We are called to love the whole body, not just one part. If we fear the opinions of others their rejection or their acceptance we continue to judge them and applaud ourselves."

As they have no "comments" section on their blog. I would like to open up my "internet home" as I would love some discussion about these 6 articles. Sorry I only have virtual tea/coffee and cakes to offer you here as you come.

Comments

[barefoot]

Thanks chick for putting this link on your blog. Today I started to read this and decided to send it to lots of people! Its a like compression for a wound. Its stopping the bleeding!

[Hutch]

Debbie,

Thanks for posting that. I read the first one and started in on the second. Then I was convicted and had to stop to think. Good reading.

[Debbie]

Like so many of us I have been hurt by people representing churches. I would just remind myself that some of the people I admire most had been hurt worse than I and had refused to become bitter. I chose to use them as my example and hold resolution for them when they were ready. For me lack of resolution is hard. It also gets harder the more I love the person that has hurt me. Amy takes all this several extra huge steps.