Mike

This is a very good subject and dialogue.  Thank you Cheryl for hosting such a wonderful place to discuss all this.  I’m getting so blessed reading your blog – I also appreciate all the contributors here as well; its really cool.

I have also experienced more than my share of this over the course of serving the Lord for 25+ years.  I’ve come to the conclusion that our present model for ‘church’ has so many flaws and is so far from the example that we were given in the New Testament church; its no wonder this goes on.  Of course it took me a couple of decades to come to that conclusion; all the while getting shut down, accused, and in some cases shunned for the contribution that I was trying to bring to the table.

There is true beauty in this little community that you folks have going on here.  Keep it up.  I may not comment a whole lot Cheryl, but I am reading regularly and I am getting so much out of it.  Thank you all so much for all of this; it means a lot to me…  MM