House Church Talk - Prayer needed

[Phillip Cohen]

Hi Liz,

Prayers are rising for you. Tough stuff you're going through. Been there;
done that. Fact is, any type of church, big or small, can fall into this
kind of butchering. Your best insulation is to snuggle so close to God
that you don't need to internalize the jabs. 

There's usually an element of truth behind the slander. (Only Jesus was
exempt from that.) We left a denomination we had been with for 25 years.
I was quite well known in those circles. We experienced massive rejection
and wholesale slandering. We developed the slogan, "Work on your
character, not your reputation." Live so that the next time those people
meet you, they're shocked because you're shining from the refining
process, not wallowing in bitterness and self-pity.

Phillip
spiritfilledhome at juno.com
God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.
1 John 4:16

On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 15:46:17 -0400 "Liz Smith" <liz.smith at earthlink.net>
writes:
> My husband and I just need some prayer from fellow Christians.  He 
> was in  
> a staff position at a young, but growing fast, church, which claimed 
> to be  
> non-denominational, but I have never heard so many jabs at other  
> denominations.  Anyway, he stepped down after praying alot about it  
> 
> because he was asked to spend too much time at church and not enough 
> with  
> family.  The church, with it's new building and so many programs, 
> had many  
> needs and was to come first.  My husband felt God telling him that 
> wasn't  
> what serving Him was about.