Today, I was driving and thinking about why I am struggling to blog. As I worked some of it through in my mind and heart, I realized that when I am processing deeper areas in my life, my thoughts don’t feel very orderly when I put them on paper.
I have a big week coming up. I will be a delegate to the Christian Reformed Church Synod. I am unsure what to write about this, but I know the Church feels very complicated to me.
Synod has been a part of my life all my years, as my Dad was significantly involved in CRC leadership. Over the years, somehow, when they labored together, the group of people who came to the floor of Synod, did the work of the Church, and God was glorified. Not everyone was happy, difficulties were present, and conflict was real, but the Church persevered together.
Many people find the church complicated and unsafe and have suffered harm from it. I want to be part of a faith community that offers invitation, healing, and wholeness to all of God’s children.
In my spiritual journey, I have learned that God loves me so much that He will speak to me about my life, and He loves you so much that He will speak to you about yours. But God will not tell me what you need to hear. If God is speaking to me about you, then my job is to pray for God to convict your heart, not to instill the fear of God into you. For when I tell you what God said about how you must live, I believe that borders on spiritual abuse.
May my lifestyle invite curiosity about my faith, and may I live the Gospel in ways that bring Hope to the hopeless…
I think that is enough for now. This feels like a lot to put into writing, but it is the journey to my heart.
I love God, I love the Church, and I love People!
At the end of the day, I believe it is all in God’s hands. ❤️ trish
Praying with out ceasing for you and Synod
AMEN AMF ASMEN!
I should not type in the midle of the night.
AMEN AND AMEN!