Comments on: Sit With Me Awhile http://www.chewymom.com/sit-with-me-awhile/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:58:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: mongoosemom http://www.chewymom.com/sit-with-me-awhile/#comment-87381 mongoosemom Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:09:26 +0000 http://www.chewymom.com/sit-with-me-awhile/#comment-87381 dear friend, chewymom, thank you for being that safe place for me, as we struggle together. i'm convinced it is what our Lord wants us to do. thank you for being a friend who doesn't try to fix me. and for leaving that to Jesus. i love hearing/ reading your thoughts. love ya1 dear friend, chewymom,
thank you for being that safe place for me, as we struggle together. i’m convinced it is what our Lord wants us to do. thank you for being a friend who doesn’t try to fix me. and for leaving that to Jesus. i love hearing/ reading your thoughts.
love ya1

]]> By: Brian http://www.chewymom.com/sit-with-me-awhile/#comment-87343 Brian Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:02:43 +0000 http://www.chewymom.com/sit-with-me-awhile/#comment-87343 Amen. I have had to learn from Paul this optimistic outlook toward fellow professing believers. Once I discovered it I found it all over his epistles. Even in Galatians when they are turning away to another Gospel he continues to call them brothers throughout and even says near the end (NAS Galatians 5:10) "I have confidence in you in the Lord, that you will adopt no other view." He must have believed the Lord was able to keep & preserve His own. Ya think? Amen. I have had to learn from Paul this optimistic outlook toward fellow professing believers. Once I discovered it I found it all over his epistles. Even in Galatians when they are turning away to another Gospel he continues to call them brothers throughout and even says near the end (NAS Galatians 5:10) “I have confidence in you in the Lord, that you will adopt no other view.” He must have believed the Lord was able to keep & preserve His own. Ya think?

]]> By: chewymom http://www.chewymom.com/sit-with-me-awhile/#comment-87294 chewymom Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:50:50 +0000 http://www.chewymom.com/sit-with-me-awhile/#comment-87294 Glenn, Isn't it amazing how hard times really do help you clarify and cling to your theology? And I'm so glad He has showed up for you and been your source of strength during these times. Diane, I think you are right on--what I really strongly desire is deeper communion with God! And where I am concerned (or rather, annoyed) is where people tell me it has to look exactly like their faith. Marcy, Sonship is great, isn't it? I'm glad you have great churches to draw from and am interested to hear what direction your questions take you! Brian, Hi, friend! I really wish more Christians were in a comfortable place like you are. That verse is KEY--being confident that He who began a good work will complete it! I am not fearful at all that I am losing my faith--just working out my salvation with fear and trembling in a sense. Making sure I believe what I say I believe. The basic tenants of the faith are not in question, but some of the finer details are. Thanks for being able to get that, Brian. Glenn, Isn’t it amazing how hard times really do help you clarify and cling to your theology? And I’m so glad He has showed up for you and been your source of strength during these times.

Diane, I think you are right on–what I really strongly desire is deeper communion with God! And where I am concerned (or rather, annoyed) is where people tell me it has to look exactly like their faith.

Marcy, Sonship is great, isn’t it? I’m glad you have great churches to draw from and am interested to hear what direction your questions take you!

Brian, Hi, friend! I really wish more Christians were in a comfortable place like you are. That verse is KEY–being confident that He who began a good work will complete it! I am not fearful at all that I am losing my faith–just working out my salvation with fear and trembling in a sense. Making sure I believe what I say I believe. The basic tenants of the faith are not in question, but some of the finer details are. Thanks for being able to get that, Brian.

]]> By: Brian http://www.chewymom.com/sit-with-me-awhile/#comment-87270 Brian Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:22:34 +0000 http://www.chewymom.com/sit-with-me-awhile/#comment-87270 Hey Karen, Myra & I will be listening through your blog from afar. We also are available by phone or e-mail if you ever want to bounce things off or get input. You asked above what we are to do when people are struggling. Through our years of pastoral ministry I've been guided with the sage advice from Paul - "The Lord's bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged" and "encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone." And with Paul I say "I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the Day of Christ Jesus." It will a beautiful thing to see what a trophy of grace he makes both of you. Hey Karen, Myra & I will be listening through your blog from afar. We also are available by phone or e-mail if you ever want to bounce things off or get input. You asked above what we are to do when people are struggling. Through our years of pastoral ministry I’ve been guided with the sage advice from Paul - “The Lord’s bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged” and “encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone.” And with Paul I say “I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the Day of Christ Jesus.” It will a beautiful thing to see what a trophy of grace he makes both of you.

]]> By: Marcy http://www.chewymom.com/sit-with-me-awhile/#comment-87236 Marcy Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:03:55 +0000 http://www.chewymom.com/sit-with-me-awhile/#comment-87236 I am on the edge of my seat waiting to read more. I hope you will feel comfortable posting about your thought processes. I feel I'm in a similar place. While Reformed Theology has changed my life, in the form of an amazing pastor's weekend summary of the Sonship Curriculum, and sustained by great churches of grace and confessionalism and other good stuff, I still have plenty of questions that don't really go away. The women stuff (and some folks in the PCA really make complementarianism look awful), Jesus and Paul, Emergent (no PCA here, and the best church in town, for us at least, has some Emergent leanings), and other stuff, too. I am on the edge of my seat waiting to read more. I hope you will feel comfortable posting about your thought processes.

I feel I’m in a similar place. While Reformed Theology has changed my life, in the form of an amazing pastor’s weekend summary of the Sonship Curriculum, and sustained by great churches of grace and confessionalism and other good stuff, I still have plenty of questions that don’t really go away. The women stuff (and some folks in the PCA really make complementarianism look awful), Jesus and Paul, Emergent (no PCA here, and the best church in town, for us at least, has some Emergent leanings), and other stuff, too.

]]> By: Diane http://www.chewymom.com/sit-with-me-awhile/#comment-87221 Diane Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:29:32 +0000 http://www.chewymom.com/sit-with-me-awhile/#comment-87221 ((hugs)) Cling to the word. Cling to the friends who will be still and wait for the Lord with you. Know that you are questioning because you want a deeper relationship with God, a better understanding of who He is and what He has done for you. Theology is our way of trying to make sense of it. Each and every post of yours that deals with faith simply shines with the love you have for Jesus, your committment to developing a relationship with Him, and to letting Him change you. You often make me think much harder and deeper about things - which is good. I'll be praying for you! ((hugs)) Cling to the word. Cling to the friends who will be still and wait for the Lord with you. Know that you are questioning because you want a deeper relationship with God, a better understanding of who He is and what He has done for you. Theology is our way of trying to make sense of it.

Each and every post of yours that deals with faith simply shines with the love you have for Jesus, your committment to developing a relationship with Him, and to letting Him change you. You often make me think much harder and deeper about things - which is good.

I’ll be praying for you!

]]> By: Glenn http://www.chewymom.com/sit-with-me-awhile/#comment-87218 Glenn Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:20:04 +0000 http://www.chewymom.com/sit-with-me-awhile/#comment-87218 I have never been more convinced of the Doctrines of Grace after these several weeks of deaths & its aftermath in our family. The one sure thing that I have leaned on is God's providential care of our family through losing my father & father-in-law & delivering the funeral ceremony for my Dad. As to how we as a church body understand each others "struggles" with doctrine & practice - we are in this for the long haul with you guys! I have never been more convinced of the Doctrines of Grace after these several weeks of deaths & its aftermath in our family. The one sure thing that I have leaned on is God’s providential care of our family through losing my father & father-in-law & delivering the funeral ceremony for my Dad. As to how we as a church body understand each others “struggles” with doctrine & practice - we are in this for the long haul with you guys!

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