Nowadays there is just so much meanness in this world your lucky to find a friend, or have a family member that wont stab ya in the back, or find a church that not only believes what you believe but does it in love and kindness.
I love my church family. They are to me the best people in the world.
I wish everyone could experience what I experience in church and with the church family.
So even when I don't agree with some people's christian doctrine, (I'm oneness apostolic) I am very happy that they feel welcomed some where because we all need love.
On a site like as this one people get to hear far more concerning what I believe than those in any church group that I visit. I place the unity of the love and peace of Christ above most of what I believe and so am careful about what I say in those settings. I am careful here, but I have more opportunity here to express more details of what I believe as that is an accepted norm here. I very much appreciate that freedom which the love of those who run this site wisely permits. I see this site as far more advanced in maturity as compared to many of the more isolated church groups.
Among those groups I always ask myself before I speak if what I am about to speak is necessary by urgency of saving a brother or sister from a serious misconception which might cost them their salvation.
For example, I am able to accept one that wishes to see Jesus as God or just sees Jesus as the Son of God, knowing that in time God will reveal such things to him if they but really love him.
It is only when i see that the way they believe is become a means to keep them from benefiting from the grace that God has shown us in Christ that I speak up in those settings. And even then with words well seasoned.
But sadly, many are run by their shepherds like a totalitarian rule of the arm of flesh and so they accept no challenge to what they say, while at the same time being the first ones to condemn groups like Jehovah's Witnesses for doing that very same thing.
It tears one's heart out to see this about them. It is not a hate thing at all, but a true love thing.
And some of that resistance is caused of outside private conversations where there has been more request to speak filtering back to them by one who really only asked me to speak so they could stab me in the back.