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Sunday, October 17, 2004 Conservative and somewhat legalisticYep - my parents sure were conservative and rather legalistic. Take Sundays - we were not allowed to buy anything on a Sunday - even if the thermometer reached the top we weren't allowed to buy an icecream, and certainly not allowed to go to the beach or the pool on a Sunday. T.V. was also banned on a Sunday. Our shoes had to be cleaned on Saturday and if a button needed to be sewn on it had to be done before Sunday. Even to this day, mum won't crochet on a Sunday. I was determined that my kids would not have to go through what I did, and up to a certain extent they didn't. We were still classed as rather strict by other peoples standards, but much more tolerant. I always said when I was younger that I hoped I would undo the apron strings and let my kids go, and if I didn't have the sense to undo them, then that my kids would cut the apron strings themselves. It was a bit harder done in practice than theory tho'. I think we had a combination of undoing and cutting around the same time! I have a good relationship with each one of them and they share with me much more than I ever did with my mum. I get on with my mum now, we're good friends. That wasn't always so when I was a teenager and early 20's. My dad I just simply adored.I mentioned earlier about having diversity in the church and how it is good for us as Christians. Gary has mentioned about so many small fellowships around and that it is not always good. I agree and yet disagree. Here's another quote from the book I quoted earlier. "With so many churches everywhere, a Christian can shop around until he finds one that's totally compatible with his preferences and personality - robbing himself of a diverse environment and all its benefits. After all, Jesus Himself made this diversity a necessary part of following Him when He chose His team of disciples - and yet we go out of our way to prevent the very thing Jesus made compulsory." Bear with me while I share another bit.... "There was astonishing diversity among the twelve apostles, the men God Himself personally handpicked to pass on the baton of Christianity to the rest of the world. United on the same team, for example, were Simon the Zealot - the anti-Roman fanatic - and Matthew, a committeed collaborator with the Romans. There was the impulsive Peter with his secure belief in himself and his ideas, joined together with the silent, cautious, hesitant Thomas, who easily doubted everything in life. There were the brothers James and John, the boisterous Sons of Thunder so preoccupied with rank and greatness that one wondered how the other ten could possibly endure them - and how those two ever endured each other. Did not Jesus know that to put these twelve men together would be an almost unbearable test for everyone involved? Yes - of course He knew. And God used those strong individual differences as a tool to sharpen and define each of them into a well-balanced, insightful, effective church-planting missionary. They needed the push and pull of each other's differences. Their differences rubbed them like sandpaper until each of them finally shone like polished steel." That old sandpaper hurts sometimes! Does with me anyway :) # posted by shellymac @ 4:41 pm 0 comments
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