tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28441047.post114859006764725066..comments2023-10-21T11:17:03.002-04:00Comments on Reformed Mama: Because It's on My MindReformed Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764147870414619425noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28441047.post-1148952356744454982006-05-29T21:25:00.000-04:002006-05-29T21:25:00.000-04:00Thank you for your kind post. It just so happens t...Thank you for your kind post. It just so happens that my main spiritual gift is teaching. <BR/><BR/>Right now I am still adjusting to the whole motherhood thing and trying to figure out where or how exactly my motherhood fits in with teaching, besides the obvious. ;)<BR/><BR/>Anyway... thank you for stopping by.Reformed Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08764147870414619425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28441047.post-1148913913892112272006-05-29T10:45:00.000-04:002006-05-29T10:45:00.000-04:00ps:I just started a blog. My first posting started...ps:<BR/><BR/>I just started a blog. My first posting started a dissertation about Calvinism. If you'd like to see it the URL is<BR/><BR/>www.mightyfowl.blogspot.com<BR/><BR/>God bless you.Bob Clevelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06110395869562328309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28441047.post-1148913741850345582006-05-29T10:42:00.000-04:002006-05-29T10:42:00.000-04:00Hi Mama. Reformed SBC Grandpa here.I've been an Ev...Hi Mama. Reformed SBC Grandpa here.<BR/><BR/>I've been an Evangelical United Bretheren, Methodist, United Methodist, 3 kinds of Presbyterian, and now Southern Baptist. They are all about the way you have described.<BR/><BR/>We usually get the view that our mission is "saving the lost world" so that ought to be everyone's focus. I don't agree with that view. True, that's one of the end-result goals of the church, but everyone is gifted and called into different areas of ministry.<BR/><BR/>You .... you see the warts and flaws and shortcomings in the organizations. You may see that as limiting your ability to find a suitable platform for using your giftedness in the work of advancing the gospel. But: I suggest that your perception of problems may be your call to an area of service.<BR/><BR/>I think that's the case, with me. I've served on all the committtees and chaired a bunch of things, but God subsequently told me He does not want me to be involved in the business of the business any more. He showed me 3 specific areas, which I am now involved in, and the main one is teaching. I do that, for young married couples, so they'll get the message and then THEY can break the traditions which breed all the flaws you see.<BR/><BR/>That may be the case, for you, with flawed churches.<BR/><BR/>I heard a story that sounds true and illustrates a point. A farmer in South Africa suffered an extended drought. He stood in his fields and prayed for rain, but none came. He eventually had to sell the farm<BR/><BR/>In the process of getting an appraisal done, a mineral survey was done. The discovered diamonds on the property, and it became one of South Africa's largest diamond mines.<BR/><BR/>When the farmer was standing in his field praying for rain, he was standing in the middle of a field of diamonds.<BR/><BR/>As you look around you at churches with political problems, spiritual flaws, and all the rest, I think you're standing in the middle of fields of diamonds.<BR/><BR/>The fact that you saw it, tells me God wants you to do something about it.<BR/><BR/>Or not. I'm just an old guy from Alabama who read your blog.<BR/><BR/>Give Eddie Bear a hug for me. My grandkids are all in college.<BR/><BR/>God bless you.Bob Clevelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06110395869562328309noreply@blogger.com