Comments on: Finding God’s Will http://www.stufffundieslike.com/2009/09/finding-gods-will/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=finding-gods-will A humor site dedicated to Independent Fundamental Baptists, their standards, their beliefs, and their craziness. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:45:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: headnotbowedeyeswideopen http://www.stufffundieslike.com/2009/09/finding-gods-will/comment-page-1/#comment-110837 headnotbowedeyeswideopen Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:31:03 +0000 http://www.stufffundieslike.com/?p=1543#comment-110837 apologetically, who let George in here??? :oops: apologetically, who let George in here??? :oops:

]]> By: headnotbowedeyeswideopen http://www.stufffundieslike.com/2009/09/finding-gods-will/comment-page-1/#comment-110836 headnotbowedeyeswideopen Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:29:30 +0000 http://www.stufffundieslike.com/?p=1543#comment-110836 Well, an update on this comment. Actually there is NOTHING I miss about my former fundy church! :grin: Today, I spoke with a pastor from there that I like and told him I wasn't attending there anymore, it's been almost two months now and when I told him one of the churches I have been going to he Immediately and disgustedly said "doesn't the music there drive you crazy??" I looked him square on and stated the truth joyfully and unaplogetically "I absolutely LOVE the music there" :grin: That felt really good. He had this look on his face which seemed to be a mixture of anger and sadness. He refused to smile and joke with me as would have been the norm before. Another pastor there who is my friend had a completely positive response and although he said it was sad I wasn't attending there, there was none of the judgement of the other one. I feel relief that I met with them, closure. :cool: Well, an update on this comment. Actually there is NOTHING I miss about my former fundy church! :grin: Today, I spoke with a pastor from there that I like and told him I wasn’t attending there anymore, it’s been almost two months now and when I told him one of the churches I have been going to he Immediately and disgustedly said “doesn’t the music there drive you crazy??” I looked him square on and stated the truth joyfully and unaplogetically “I absolutely LOVE the music there” :grin: That felt really good. He had this look on his face which seemed to be a mixture of anger and sadness. He refused to smile and joke with me as would have been the norm before. Another pastor there who is my friend had a completely positive response and although he said it was sad I wasn’t attending there, there was none of the judgement of the other one. I feel relief that I met with them, closure. :cool:

]]> By: MKXcomm http://www.stufffundieslike.com/2009/09/finding-gods-will/comment-page-1/#comment-101522 MKXcomm Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:41:34 +0000 http://www.stufffundieslike.com/?p=1543#comment-101522 Let's crack open some bubbly!! Let’s crack open some bubbly!!

]]> By: Seen Enough http://www.stufffundieslike.com/2009/09/finding-gods-will/comment-page-1/#comment-101519 Seen Enough Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:22:56 +0000 http://www.stufffundieslike.com/?p=1543#comment-101519 Hooray for you!! :grin: Hooray for you!! :grin:

]]> By: RobM http://www.stufffundieslike.com/2009/09/finding-gods-will/comment-page-1/#comment-101504 RobM Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:58:20 +0000 http://www.stufffundieslike.com/?p=1543#comment-101504 Yay! It just gets better from here! :) Yay! It just gets better from here! :)

]]> By: Darrell http://www.stufffundieslike.com/2009/09/finding-gods-will/comment-page-1/#comment-101500 Darrell Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:34:34 +0000 http://www.stufffundieslike.com/?p=1543#comment-101500 Congrats! Welcome to the rest of your life. :) Congrats! Welcome to the rest of your life. :)

]]> By: headnotbowedeyeswideopen http://www.stufffundieslike.com/2009/09/finding-gods-will/comment-page-1/#comment-101487 headnotbowedeyeswideopen Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:43:11 +0000 http://www.stufffundieslike.com/?p=1543#comment-101487 Well, this is a pretty good topic on which to make this post. I have just attended my last service at my fundy church! I feel kinda sad that I won't see certain people by default on Sundays and Wednesdays but we will just have to make the effort to meet outside of church more often. I will probably miss it in some ways but the positive far outweighs the negative. My former screen name here was "NOTSWALLOWINGTHEKOOLAIDBUTSTILLIN. I still have the task of telling the pastors that I give up my membership. :grin: I look forward to the adventure of where God will lead me. :cool: Well, this is a pretty good topic on which to make this post. I have just attended my last service at my fundy church! I feel kinda sad that I won’t see certain people by default on Sundays and Wednesdays but we will just have to make the effort to meet outside of church more often. I will probably miss it in some ways but the positive far outweighs the negative. My former screen name here was “NOTSWALLOWINGTHEKOOLAIDBUTSTILLIN. I still have the task of telling the pastors that I give up my membership. :grin: I look forward to the adventure of where God will lead me. :cool:

]]> By: Macushlalondra http://www.stufffundieslike.com/2009/09/finding-gods-will/comment-page-1/#comment-101459 Macushlalondra Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:13:45 +0000 http://www.stufffundieslike.com/?p=1543#comment-101459 The IFB always burdens us more than is necessary. It seems it should be enough to simply pray that God would open and close doors according to His plan. Then before falling in love with someone you can ask Him to close that door if it isn't His will. If the door remains open it must be a good thing. They may say that marrying this person isn't God's will but once you are married they become God's will since divorce is not God's will so you're stuck. I have heard missionaries to Africa say that when they were young they'd say they'd do anything God wanted except go to Africa. So to test them God sent them to Africa and now of course they are so happy they went and they love it there. One thing I loathe is when they tell you it's all in the attitude as to whether you will like something or not, if your heart is "right with God" you will be blessed in something even if you think you will hate it. This isn't always so. One of the reasons (among many) that we left our last church is that the pastor refused to give me the age group I wanted and felt comfortable with to teach in Sunday school, he insisted on giving me an age group I was not at all comfortable with and then I got the old fundy song and dance about dying to self and if I just had the right attitude I'd love it. And a year later say I was so glad to have been put with that group. Wrong. I stuck with it for the year but I hated it. Every Sunday I dreaded going but I gave it my best shot. I stuck with the commitment and waited for the blessing which never came. After the year was over as we were fixing to leave that church I told the pastor that I had dreaded every Sunday though I prayed over it and just felt no peace at all with it. And how nice it would've been if he'd respected me enough to allow me to have known my own strengths and weaknesses and not kept trying to push square pegs into round holes which is all he does over there. Leaving there was one of the best things we've done. We just got back a few minutes ago from our new church and I look forward to Sundays. There is none of that old dread and pressure from the leadership that you're not good enough, not measuring up, always lacking in something. :grin: The IFB always burdens us more than is necessary. It seems it should be enough to simply pray that God would open and close doors according to His plan. Then before falling in love with someone you can ask Him to close that door if it isn’t His will. If the door remains open it must be a good thing.

They may say that marrying this person isn’t God’s will but once you are married they become God’s will since divorce is not God’s will so you’re stuck.

I have heard missionaries to Africa say that when they were young they’d say they’d do anything God wanted except go to Africa. So to test them God sent them to Africa and now of course they are so happy they went and they love it there.

One thing I loathe is when they tell you it’s all in the attitude as to whether you will like something or not, if your heart is “right with God” you will be blessed in something even if you think you will hate it. This isn’t always so. One of the reasons (among many) that we left our last church is that the pastor refused to give me the age group I wanted and felt comfortable with to teach in Sunday school, he insisted on giving me an age group I was not at all comfortable with and then I got the old fundy song and dance about dying to self and if I just had the right attitude I’d love it. And a year later say I was so glad to have been put with that group. Wrong. I stuck with it for the year but I hated it. Every Sunday I dreaded going but I gave it my best shot. I stuck with the commitment and waited for the blessing which never came. After the year was over as we were fixing to leave that church I told the pastor that I had dreaded every Sunday though I prayed over it and just felt no peace at all with it. And how nice it would’ve been if he’d respected me enough to allow me to have known my own strengths and weaknesses and not kept trying to push square pegs into round holes which is all he does over there.

Leaving there was one of the best things we’ve done. We just got back a few minutes ago from our new church and I look forward to Sundays. There is none of that old dread and pressure from the leadership that you’re not good enough, not measuring up, always lacking in something. :grin:

]]> By: Pastor's Wife http://www.stufffundieslike.com/2009/09/finding-gods-will/comment-page-1/#comment-8105 Pastor's Wife Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:09:40 +0000 http://www.stufffundieslike.com/?p=1543#comment-8105 I often don't appreciate my father's insights (on Christian music: "There hasn't been anything good written in the last 30 years" or on Bible versions: "I never met anyone who couldn't understand the KJV"), but I will always remember what he told me when I was in a total panic about choosing which Christian college to attend. I was so scared that I'd pick the "wrong" one. He asked me if I wanted to do God's will. "Yes!" I cried, "but I don't know what it is!" "Just pick the school you want to attend," he said. "If you desire to please God, He will direct your steps." I felt so free! I often don’t appreciate my father’s insights (on Christian music: “There hasn’t been anything good written in the last 30 years” or on Bible versions: “I never met anyone who couldn’t understand the KJV”), but I will always remember what he told me when I was in a total panic about choosing which Christian college to attend. I was so scared that I’d pick the “wrong” one. He asked me if I wanted to do God’s will. “Yes!” I cried, “but I don’t know what it is!” “Just pick the school you want to attend,” he said. “If you desire to please God, He will direct your steps.” I felt so free!

]]> By: Mark Thomas http://www.stufffundieslike.com/2009/09/finding-gods-will/comment-page-1/#comment-3380 Mark Thomas Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:27:10 +0000 http://www.stufffundieslike.com/?p=1543#comment-3380 I wrote a big paper on this very issue about a year ago, and I even used Friesen's "Decision Making and the Will of God" as a source. Good times. I wrote a big paper on this very issue about a year ago, and I even used Friesen’s “Decision Making and the Will of God” as a source. Good times.

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