tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874123597623259718.post8889410014478113166..comments2024-03-17T16:21:14.907-05:00Comments on Stop Baptist Predators: What would accountability look like?Christa Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04560409585720043015noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874123597623259718.post-36712965107911845892007-11-04T21:53:00.000-06:002007-11-04T21:53:00.000-06:00Phyliss, I am glad for you too!I hope you will com...Phyliss,<BR/> I am glad for you too!<BR/>I hope you will come to feel safe there. <BR/><BR/>Maybe 08 will be the year we both do alot of healing.<BR/><BR/>Christa...I also thank you for your relentless courage to protect the innocent!!gmommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11713588262748876624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874123597623259718.post-31407339460513506352007-11-03T22:29:00.000-05:002007-11-03T22:29:00.000-05:00Thank you Phyllis. Your words mean a lot to me...b...Thank you Phyllis. Your words mean a lot to me...because I DO get discouraged sometimes.<BR/><BR/>Congratulations on finding a church you wanted to join! I wish you peace, the hope of a renewed and meaningful faith, and a community of people who authentically care. For myself, I can't even imagine the possibility of being part of a "church" anymore. So, in some ways, I envy you. But I do still search for connections with communities of caring people - and you're a part of one of those communities here on this blog. So thanks again!Christa Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04560409585720043015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874123597623259718.post-18871556205492972882007-11-03T20:50:00.000-05:002007-11-03T20:50:00.000-05:00My husband and I officially joined a Methodist chu...My husband and I officially joined a Methodist church tonight. We have been visiting off and on for the past two years. Until now I just could not bring myself to join any church. I realize this church is not perfect, they have their own set of problems, child abusers could be members, but it is a place I can go and worship and I have not been able to do that in a very long time.<BR/><BR/>The Southern Baptist Church sucks! That is the best way to put it. I want to shout it from the roof tops. Even after leaving the Baptist church several years ago, I still had all my guilt feelings wondering if I was going to go to Hell because I wasn't worshiping in the right church or the right way anymore. All my old SBC hang ups and paranoia rose to the top and tried to take control.<BR/><BR/>But, Christa, thanks to you and your website and blog, and thanks to Dee Miller and some things I learned from her, I realized that there were a lot of people out there like me who had church issues, rightfully so, who felt that pastors were many times more power hungry than spiritual, more full of themselves than full of the spirit, and not always the spiritual giants that people made them to be. <BR/><BR/>I always had a bad taste in my mouth about the whole SBC we-are-the-best attitude, even though I did believe that the first 35 years of my life. The whole church do-good-do-good, memorize scripture, pray without ceasing, live the PERFECT LIFE mind set really started to get on my last nerve. And when I started remembering that my parents, Mr. and Mrs. Baptist church had sexually abused me, my gosh! All my life I had been taught that drinking was wrong, that cussing was wrong, that everything was wrong, yet the same people telling me this were doing something evil to me day in and day out.<BR/><BR/>All this to say, to hell with the SBC. The denomination is so full of better than thou, pseudo-Christian Pharisees, who truly believe denial is a river in Egypt, I do not know if there is any hope for them.<BR/><BR/>Thank God you have allowed a place for those who have been damaged to come and talk and share and know that they are not alone. This is a lifesaver for those whose lives have been destroyed by these people.<BR/><BR/>Thank you Christa. I know you must get very discouraged when all the crap continues and does not seem to get any better. Just know that all you do is appreciated. The SBC might not ever come around and probably won't, but you are making a difference and that is what matters.<BR/>PhyllisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com