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Although I have already declined this very complimentary offer, I think I owe it to you all to explain a little more.
Many of my understandings of Scripture run directly contradictory to the beliefs and doctrines of many of your churches. And it is in these bodies that you will have to fit, listening to and not conflicting with the traditional things being taught by your Youth Ministers who were taught these thing so they could teach them to you as your church wants them taught.
Frankly, I don't really believe that it matters whether you see certain things as I see them, or as your denominations see them, but it is often a very big deal to your preachers. And the less conflict and strife you have to deal with as you are getting some fundamentals put down deep inside you, the better. When I study Scripture, I raise questions. I think that is important. I won't do it any other way. But your church leaders mostly prefer that you just accept and absorb right now, so that you become future members that they can depend upon to uphold the esoteric doctrines of your individual institutions.
Get some basics down before you do the type of questioning I still do, to this day. (It is considered heretical by many... and you don't need that yet.) I'm always here, or I will give out an email address that comes to both my wife's computer and mine at the same moment, if necessary, should any of you run across something that just doesn't ring right in your ears, and you want to hear how the crazy, wild-eyed old man looks at it..
My own preacher loves to talk with me, and agrees with much I see, but even he won't let me preach because of this same thing. He knows there are just certain things that should be imparted only by the old traditional methods when people are first learning.
Many of my understandings of Scripture run directly contradictory to the beliefs and doctrines of many of your churches. And it is in these bodies that you will have to fit, listening to and not conflicting with the traditional things being taught by your Youth Ministers who were taught these thing so they could teach them to you as your church wants them taught.
Frankly, I don't really believe that it matters whether you see certain things as I see them, or as your denominations see them, but it is often a very big deal to your preachers. And the less conflict and strife you have to deal with as you are getting some fundamentals put down deep inside you, the better. When I study Scripture, I raise questions. I think that is important. I won't do it any other way. But your church leaders mostly prefer that you just accept and absorb right now, so that you become future members that they can depend upon to uphold the esoteric doctrines of your individual institutions.
Get some basics down before you do the type of questioning I still do, to this day. (It is considered heretical by many... and you don't need that yet.) I'm always here, or I will give out an email address that comes to both my wife's computer and mine at the same moment, if necessary, should any of you run across something that just doesn't ring right in your ears, and you want to hear how the crazy, wild-eyed old man looks at it..
My own preacher loves to talk with me, and agrees with much I see, but even he won't let me preach because of this same thing. He knows there are just certain things that should be imparted only by the old traditional methods when people are first learning.