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Re:When should I leave? - 2005/04/05 17:26
Shalom Freedom -
The only advice I can give you is to get God's opinion on what to do.
So seek him, cry out to him, shout, scream, cry, get on your face but get hold of God and find out what he wants for your life. He alone knows where you should be and what's best for you.
People here can (as I've already said) only advise you from the wisdom we have (which is pretty neglagble really) It's God'sc wisdom you need.
Personally, if I'm going to a place and I'm not sure whether I should or not, I ask myself the following questions:
1) Do I encounter God in this place. Am I changed, do I gain personal revelation.
2) Am I growing as a person in this place? Or am I struggling?
3) Do I have the freedom to praise and worship?
4) "Where the spirit of God is, there is freedom." Am I set free or do I feel restrained and bound up?
5) Do I feel condemned by what I do wrong or convicted?
Remember, it's nothing to do with the WT's sins, but everything to do with who God is and what he would have for our lives. Every gathering of Christians is going to be sinful to some degree or other. The important thing is the presence of God.
Nothing else matters.
So get on your face and sekk God's opinion so you can make a decision based on faith. Remember, faith only comes from hearing God. If you don't hear God personally then what you do will be in hope, or doubt, or fear or duty, but not faith.
Faith is manifestly different from hope, doubt, fear or duty. Faith is the absolute sure and certain knowledge that what you are doing is God's will.
If you attend meetings in a spirit of fear, you'll be almost scared not to go in case you loose your standing with God. This is not Faith.
If you attend in a spirit of doubt you'll be unsure, thinking one moment it must be God, and another feeling the exact opposite. This is double mindedness and God says that "A double minded man will recieve nothing from God. He is unstable in all he does."
If you attend meetings in a spirit of duty you'll feel you should go because God and man expect it.
If you attend in hope it'll manifest in a sort of longing for where you are to be right, and a constant searching for some scrap of evidence that where you are is where God wants you.
Remember, you don't earn points with God by attending meetings. Learning to hear God's voice and see his purpose for us above and beyond what we are taught is a hard, but necessary lesson.
Hope this is some use to you.
Shalom.
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