Thanks
Submitted by Nate on 2002-09-19 02:39:14, Thursday
In reply to Hullo... :) submitted by JohnDoe420 on 2002-09-18 03:06:46, Wednesday
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It is true that I have come to regard my ability to love boys as a gift from God. Splash! and many others here have encouraged me in this. I call it "a real sin issue" when speaking from the perspective of the church. It is still shocking how, with all their boasting about their capacity for redemptive love, one like me should be summarily cast into the outer darkness. I didn't think that I was "satan", either. And what about that honored tradition of mentoring? Do they really believe there was never a real love? Never an attraction? Surely this can be dealt with constructively? I have heard a "foreigner" scold the American church because we read so much, yet know so very little. To me, it seems that the traditions we uphold are what we remember of the last generation, and we care very little about the traditions of the founders. I know that God loves his Church, but I am ashamed at what we have become. How to move forward? "Become as a new child", you say. That has a familiar sound to it - the sound of wisdom, I think. Thanks again, Nate |
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