The modern/post-modern/evangelical/skeptic

To anonymous

I fully admit that my words in my pervious blog where not well thought out, nor where they spelled right. This is mostly due to the 5 min I had to write it, not an excuse I maybe should have thought a little more before publishing. Let me re-write what I meant to say, not what I said.

What I’m trying to get at with this story is that in my journey with Christ he has not come down from the clouds and spoken to me one on one. I have spoken to many pastors in conservative, “emergent”, and the charismatic camps, and I have never heard of them talking to God one on one. I would agree that God will use certain things and people to confirm a calling, or a vision, but most of the time these things are still cloudy, and need further poking and prodding.

I’m simply trying to warn people from over using the God card and saying that this is for sure what “God” is telling them to do. Maybe you have a good feeling or the things that God is putting into your life are pointing in a direction, but its hard to know for certain. I thought that once God was telling me to move from home…I didn’t after actually thinking about it, and know that I look back on the whole situation I can see that God probably didn’t intend on me moving away from home.

True, my experiences aren’t like everyone else’s experience, and maybe God does speak to others in a way that leads them to say exactly what God is telling them to do. However in the majority of the people I have talked to share a similar experience as I. In conclusion we shouldn’t be afraid to say that “I want to do this,” lets take a little more responsibilities for what we want to do, and maybe use the “God wants me to” card a little less.

To anonymous, I do appreciate you pointing out that I was wrong in writing what I did. I would just ask that next time you do it in a little more respectful way. I didn’t appreciate the way you tried to make me look dumb, with all the quotation marks and what not. Next time just say what’s on your mind, and add to the discussion. Sorry if I took it the wrong way by being offended by your comment, but I did!

Sorry to everyone else for writing irresponsibly, and quickly, I will try not to let it happen again, but it will so give me some grace please.

Willis

posted by Mike Willis @ 7:17 PM