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Daeruin wrote:
Emotion vs the spirit
Hmmm. I don’t know about that one. I would have to pray about it and see if it feels right.
I am in the “it is about time” and lots of thinking about how much of this is coming from pressure to change. Hawkgrrrl, Was your sister good at math? (I apologize in advance in case my attempt at humor is found offensive) ConfusedMolly, You are hitting the nail on head of where I am at. I have come to some peace with some of our history, but it has come at the expense of feeling leaders are even generally inspired. I think I would say “maybe occasionally” they are and often they are dead wrong. So when listen to conference and hear GA’s say “we have all the truth, just follow your leaders” I feel they are overspending the level of their inspiration. I have moved from listening and try to start from a position of needing to believe to now starting from “they could be wrong” and seeing if the Lord tells me otherwise.
I have made a hard distinction between the church and the gospel of Jesus. I used to see them one in the same. Now I would say they can be at times not close to the same. I am feeling that God let’s his church drive a bit like an irresponsible teenager before he corrects it at all. That puzzles me.
Ann wrote:Maybe he works in a heavily LDS area, with LDS administrators, bosses, co-workers, and he was worried he would be “let go” once he stepped back from the church. I’m
notsaying it happens a lot, but I’m sure it happens some. An employer finds a PC way to do it, even if the motivation isn’t.
I have seen this in my family. Just a divorce was reason enough to lose a very high profile job – and he knew it before hand. So sad.1gentlespirit wrote:I find it very frightening to be 36 years old and just now figuring that out and I have no idea how to do it!
You are a Spring Chicken!I like to remember the comparison of the church to a walking stick. The church is not the path, it’s the stick that’s supposed to make it possible or easier to walk it. I don’t know if that’s an off analogy, but it’s helped me relax.
And to carry the analogy too farMaybe we are fairly clean in this regard because we have people that hold their community to a higher standard.
Which may be why some are so upset when they feel like church leaders have been suppressing some info as they feel the same leader touts “we cling to the truth”.I enjoy the several perspectives on this site.
Quote:The example I would use is from my mission when I bought and ate coffee cake for breakfast. The AP visited our apartment, saw the box of “Coffee Cakes” and reprimanded me for breaking the Word of Wisdom. When I explained it is just the name, no coffee in it, he still said, “Well, the appearance of evil, Elder.”
If I got along with him I would be inclined to say, “I would worry more about the appearance of ignorance”. But it sounds like he was “THE ZL” Sigh.
