tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28112208.post8597648991629402889..comments2023-11-27T03:38:54.394-05:00Comments on Willing, Wanting, Waiting....: Why I Am (Still) a Member of My Local ChurchLoren Warnemuendehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970015967353038870noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28112208.post-86662683361368316722011-10-26T13:27:58.960-04:002011-10-26T13:27:58.960-04:00I think all the best things from God are painful a...I think all the best things from God are painful and take time. It's not because he's mean so much as it's because we are slow to learn, slow to believe, slow to obey.sally https://www.blogger.com/profile/11068670473065918371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28112208.post-7498481966866101072011-10-09T15:37:43.722-04:002011-10-09T15:37:43.722-04:00Thanks for the encouragement, Sally. What an aweso...Thanks for the encouragement, Sally. What an awesome word picture, too, of the doctor debriding a sore (love that word, "debriding"!). I told my mom and Kraig about it today in a rousing discussion we were having--it's exactly the idea that we're trying to get across to friends. Sometimes the best things from God are painful and take time.Loren Warnemuendehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970015967353038870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28112208.post-76134613254504202962011-10-06T15:49:54.125-04:002011-10-06T15:49:54.125-04:00What a fantastic post. This is so important. And i...What a fantastic post. This is so important. And in sticking with it, there is great joy. <br /><br />When I think of what it takes for a church to heal, I use a picture of a doctor debriding a sore to get to down to the bloody tissue. You have to cut away the dead tissue and get into the living tissue that bleeds, because the life is in the blood. And then you have to keep changing the bandage as the sore heals.<br /><br />I think too often in church today we want to smack a bandage over a festering sore and just leave it on there even when it starts stinking. We do this because the cutting and the constant gentle tending with re-bandaging is painful and time consuming. <br /><br />Good for you for sticking in your church.sally https://www.blogger.com/profile/11068670473065918371noreply@blogger.com