I just love how real you guys are being!! The world is looking for authenticity - especially in the Christian realm. You are both offering that each week! Thank you!
No one can dictate to you what your convictions have to be. I left the UPC so many years ago but didn't realize how much I took it with me. It made it so difficult to find what God wanted to do with me. I'm learning to walk in the freedom of His Grace now. He loved me all along.
It makes perfect sense to me that the enemy would consider ways to infiltrate and corrupt the church, and that planting the seed that all of these rules and ‘standards’ would be the best way to do that, because what do they do? They cause division, and they cause conflict, they exclude, and they oppress. It’s so glaringly obvious. And he’s beguiling, and patient, the origin of this may have come from good intentions, but they were put in place by man, and he’s been watching mankind since the beginning, he knew exactly where this was going to lead, and it has, and just sits back and revels in it. Enough is enough xx
On the topic of drug addicts who appeared to be changed and then fell out… could it be that they just replaced slavery of one thing (drugs) with another (rules) without the heart change that is lasting? To me that is also a big casualty here… how many people “Think” they are saved because the follow the rules? But have never had an encounter and transformation with Jesus Christ? Could the church be sending people to hell unknowingly???
I just love how real you guys are being!! The world is looking for authenticity - especially in the Christian realm. You are both offering that each week! Thank you!
No one can dictate to you what your convictions have to be. I left the UPC so many years ago but didn't realize how much I took it with me. It made it so difficult to find what God wanted to do with me. I'm learning to walk in the freedom of His Grace now. He loved me all along.
I just love y'all and can hardly wait to see where God leads. ❤
The amount of big words in this episode😅😂 Ashley… I LOVE YR MIND! ❤🎉🙌
@@Tflowers19 🤣 I didn’t realize!
It makes perfect sense to me that the enemy would consider ways to infiltrate and corrupt the church, and that planting the seed that all of these rules and ‘standards’ would be the best way to do that, because what do they do? They cause division, and they cause conflict, they exclude, and they oppress. It’s so glaringly obvious. And he’s beguiling, and patient, the origin of this may have come from good intentions, but they were put in place by man, and he’s been watching mankind since the beginning, he knew exactly where this was going to lead, and it has, and just sits back and revels in it. Enough is enough xx
@@Charles_Darlington well put!
On the topic of drug addicts who appeared to be changed and then fell out… could it be that they just replaced slavery of one thing (drugs) with another (rules) without the heart change that is lasting? To me that is also a big casualty here… how many people “Think” they are saved because the follow the rules? But have never had an encounter and transformation with Jesus Christ? Could the church be sending people to hell unknowingly???
@@carriemcclung4615 Replaced slavery to one thing to another - boom!