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@Kim @WMc @Lanigame As Shawn mentioned in the call in hour, we are so thankful for your responses here. It has been really cool getting Yeshuans going, and being in company with some real-freaking-deal people here. Thank you all for the comments and participation.
@Haydos Of course you as well. I imagine that it’s really difficult, especially when you might be in a phase of frustration with the church rather than acceptance of it. I’m sort of in that place still, and have a hard time being in many Christian settings because you just want to like shake people.
I am not married to someone on a different page, and do not yet have children. So I cannot speak to this at all. However I’m reminded of the ideas that God has allowed everything since Christ. God has ALLOWED IT. The more I think about that, the more shocked I am. Church is a literal manifestation of culture, it is just a societal expression of the philosophy and impetus of the moment. To see it all from such a zoomed out lens, it allows me to carry myself with less emotion through these spaces, and recognize that 1. this stuff takes SO long to implement, and 2. it happens one individual at a time. The first place it might happen is with your wife, but it also might happen with individuals in whatever church you go to, the more you speak with them.
It does, though, seem like there might be better and worse denominational fits in terms of provoking more or less frustration – especially depending on where you are at personally.
Either way, we’re here for you! Keep us posted on how things are going.