tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560220615271337359.post3337071426639398538..comments2024-03-12T08:04:47.314-07:00Comments on Naming His Grace: A letter for Deidra Crosby who wrote about aneurysms & her dadViola Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09146967423654966140noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560220615271337359.post-36083986456776767392011-12-08T10:38:32.146-08:002011-12-08T10:38:32.146-08:00John,
I prayed for you this morning. I will contin...John,<br />I prayed for you this morning. I will continue to do so.Viola Larsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09146967423654966140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560220615271337359.post-88620094172978882542011-12-08T10:37:23.696-08:002011-12-08T10:37:23.696-08:00So I have a Peter & Paul on my blog this morni...So I have a Peter & Paul on my blog this morning: )<br /><br />Thank you both. Yes there is a spiritual blindness engulfing our denomination, so how could they see anything good about the Fellowship, or those who disagree with them.Viola Larsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09146967423654966140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560220615271337359.post-48428470800982816132011-12-08T09:28:18.089-08:002011-12-08T09:28:18.089-08:00While I am honestly sorry for the loss of Rev. Cro...While I am honestly sorry for the loss of Rev. Crosby's father, there were many factors that contributed to his health issues.<br /><br />As she explains:<br />"By the time I was in high school, my dad had two heart attacks behind him, was a chain smoker, a heavy drinker, and didn’t let his heart problems slow him down."<br /><br />I believe that our denomination is in crisis, as some described as "deathly ill," due to years of unhealthy choices - not the body's efforts towards healing and health.<br /><br />For generations church leaders have taken vows to seek the "peace, unity, and purity" of the church. Unfortunately healthy forbearance and valuing of different perspectives, like many things that are healthy in moderation and unhealthy in excess, through failing to pursue appropriate boundaries of purity, have resulted in not only in abandoning the pursuit of purity but also the repudiation of purity as a worthy pursuit.<br /><br />We are now reaping what we have sown.<br /><br />By seeking what we thought was peace and unity through devaluing purity, we have lost all three.Paul Ognenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560220615271337359.post-76024249047979371242011-12-08T07:50:55.825-08:002011-12-08T07:50:55.825-08:00Aneurysms? Deadly Toxins? Good Grief!Aneurysms? Deadly Toxins? Good Grief!John McNeesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18301421993866391399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560220615271337359.post-9992605318375443052011-12-08T04:44:01.918-08:002011-12-08T04:44:01.918-08:00Another great blog, Viola. It is not suprising th...Another great blog, Viola. It is not suprising that those who have worked so hard to cause trauma, division and unholiness in the PC(USA) - infecting the Body of Christ with deadly toxins - now blame orthdodox believers for the state of the church and its unhealth. In their eyes, we are the source of the illness. They have reached that advanced stage of spiritual blindness where they mistake light for darkness, bitter for sweet and illness for health. It reminds me of the scene in Dante's inferno where Dante finally reaches the deepest depths of hell where the devil is frozen upside down in a sea of ice. Hoewever, the devil still insists that he is rightside up and that it is God who is upside down. It is hard to feel much hope for a denomination that mistakes deathly illness for health.Peter Larsonnoreply@blogger.com