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Hee. I talked to Kat last night! That got me rather hyper. Let's just say it took the last few innings of Yankees/Red Sox baseball and reading my True Crime anthology to put me to sleep.
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( Smallville )
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Bible Study:
Folks, I was raised in a conservative church. Pretty standard. No jumping up and down and hollering, no running the aisles, no speaking in tongues. The most rebellious things were when people clapped during or after a song, or if someone were to holler "Amen!" during service.
My mom's new church? Charismatic. They *do* do the hollering and running and fainting and tongues. Last night at Bible study, I got to see a bit more of this type of church.
1. When discussing her husband's bout with cancer (which has gotten worse), the woman in charge said the doctor suggested a specific treatment, but she and her husband wanted the least invasive treatment, because God had recently given them a ministry, and of course he wouldn't take her husband NOW. God would heal him.
Me? Sitting there trying not to laugh. I have no problems with faith, but dear lord. This wasn't faith, this was blindness. First, God has given these doctors a gift. Their talent is healing. They understand the intricacies of the human body. They're offering a treatment method that they learned when they went to school to perfect this gift that God gave them, and you don't want to do anything, except sit back and "let God heal you"? Second, just because you've been married 6 months and have found a purpose in the church does *not* mean that everything will be okay. Or at least not in the way you think. God answers one of two ways, either "yes" or "no". Assuming you know God's answer before you ask the question is just absurd. Maybe God has a greater plan. Or maybe you're forgetting that the rules that God has guide his and our decisions. God can work miracles, but only within the rules he put in place when time began.
2. I'm sorry, but when someone talks about having "received a prophecy", it's all I can do to not get up and run out. Prophets receive prophecies (and her definition of prophecies greatly differs from mine, which means thing that are yet to happen, not things that have already happened). An answer to prayer in the form of scripture is one thing, but calling it a prophecy is vastly different. It just really freaked me out.
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( Smallville )
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Bible Study:
Folks, I was raised in a conservative church. Pretty standard. No jumping up and down and hollering, no running the aisles, no speaking in tongues. The most rebellious things were when people clapped during or after a song, or if someone were to holler "Amen!" during service.
My mom's new church? Charismatic. They *do* do the hollering and running and fainting and tongues. Last night at Bible study, I got to see a bit more of this type of church.
1. When discussing her husband's bout with cancer (which has gotten worse), the woman in charge said the doctor suggested a specific treatment, but she and her husband wanted the least invasive treatment, because God had recently given them a ministry, and of course he wouldn't take her husband NOW. God would heal him.
Me? Sitting there trying not to laugh. I have no problems with faith, but dear lord. This wasn't faith, this was blindness. First, God has given these doctors a gift. Their talent is healing. They understand the intricacies of the human body. They're offering a treatment method that they learned when they went to school to perfect this gift that God gave them, and you don't want to do anything, except sit back and "let God heal you"? Second, just because you've been married 6 months and have found a purpose in the church does *not* mean that everything will be okay. Or at least not in the way you think. God answers one of two ways, either "yes" or "no". Assuming you know God's answer before you ask the question is just absurd. Maybe God has a greater plan. Or maybe you're forgetting that the rules that God has guide his and our decisions. God can work miracles, but only within the rules he put in place when time began.
2. I'm sorry, but when someone talks about having "received a prophecy", it's all I can do to not get up and run out. Prophets receive prophecies (and her definition of prophecies greatly differs from mine, which means thing that are yet to happen, not things that have already happened). An answer to prayer in the form of scripture is one thing, but calling it a prophecy is vastly different. It just really freaked me out.