Comments on: Follow The Bread Crumbs http://lettersfromleavers.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Flettersfromleavers.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F03%2F26%2Fthe-proximity-effect%2F&seed_title=Follow+The+Bread+Crumbs "Dear Church..." - stories from those that have left Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:15:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Robin http://lettersfromleavers.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Flettersfromleavers.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F03%2F26%2Fthe-proximity-effect%2F&seed_title=Follow+The+Bread+Crumbs#comment-233 Robin Sun, 20 May 2007 05:42:05 +0000 http://lettersfromleavers.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Flettersfromleavers.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F03%2F26%2Fthe-proximity-effect%2F&seed_title=Follow+The+Bread+Crumbs#comment-233 Oh my gosh! you are the first one I have encountered on the blogs who actually refers to himself as a "called out one" - I get together from time to time with a few people in MN, once I even attended a gathering of about 60 people. I am in IL. Of course, we have no agenda, we just get together and share what god is doing and saying... it's always a blessing. Oh my gosh! you are the first one I have encountered on the blogs who actually refers to himself as a “called out one” -
I get together from time to time with a few people in MN, once I even attended a gathering of about 60 people. I am in IL. Of course, we have no agenda, we just get together and share what god is doing and saying… it’s always a blessing.

]]> By: sharris1026 http://lettersfromleavers.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Flettersfromleavers.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F03%2F26%2Fthe-proximity-effect%2F&seed_title=Follow+The+Bread+Crumbs#comment-314 sharris1026 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:11:01 +0000 http://lettersfromleavers.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Flettersfromleavers.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F03%2F26%2Fthe-proximity-effect%2F&seed_title=Follow+The+Bread+Crumbs#comment-314 Thank you! I was greatly blessed by your account of following the Spirit as opposed to "playing church." I, too, have been on a similar journey, although mine began as a deeply indoctrinated (might I say "blinded") member of a church which promoted itself as the "one true church," teaching that all others were "hellbound." I bought into it wholeheartedly, but God pulled the rug out from under my idolatrous "church worship" in 1981, when I was forced to quit attending. For many, many years I lived in a fog and in fear of the fiery judgment I had been taught to believe was all that could be expected for one who had abandoned "the one true church." Thank God, though, He had mercy on my soul and revealed Himself to me in 1995 as a just and merciful Father, who has given His Son to be all that I could never be! God is good! After that day, I was consumed with wanting to know more of God, but discovered such questioning was frowned upon by institutional religion. Like you, I tried out various "kinds" of churches, but discovered basically they are all the same, in that they teach salvation resides within your commitment to their organization, whether it be by membership or service. Thank God, I serve a God who is bigger than that, One who cannot be contained within the parameters of the boxes men try to build around Him, and whose love for me encompasses me where ever I assemble! Thank you! I was greatly blessed by your account of following the Spirit as opposed to “playing church.” I, too, have been on a similar journey, although mine began as a deeply indoctrinated (might I say “blinded”) member of a church which promoted itself as the “one true church,” teaching that all others were “hellbound.” I bought into it wholeheartedly, but God pulled the rug out from under my idolatrous “church worship” in 1981, when I was forced to quit attending. For many, many years I lived in a fog and in fear of the fiery judgment I had been taught to believe was all that could be expected for one who had abandoned “the one true church.” Thank God, though, He had mercy on my soul and revealed Himself to me in 1995 as a just and merciful Father, who has given His Son to be all that I could never be! God is good!

After that day, I was consumed with wanting to know more of God, but discovered such questioning was frowned upon by institutional religion. Like you, I tried out various “kinds” of churches, but discovered basically they are all the same, in that they teach salvation resides within your commitment to their organization, whether it be by membership or service. Thank God, I serve a God who is bigger than that, One who cannot be contained within the parameters of the boxes men try to build around Him, and whose love for me encompasses me where ever I assemble!

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