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Tracea · 03-09-2007

I'm not sure about the emerging church movement, at least not by that name. But I am de-churched because I don't like some of what I've seen and experienced in the churches I've belonged to. For starters, I accepted Christ at a very fundamental church that was so legalistic I don't know how I could have managed to spend 15 years there. God's grace was sufficient, but the subtleties of "works mentality" were preached along with grace, confusing people and turning many neurotic. We were saved by grace, but only if bla bla bla... I was more afraid of condemnation there than I was before I got saved! Go figure. Then I went to a church that was far too liberal, where the pastor took advantage of his power and used neuro-linguistic programming on the congregation, and speed seduction techniques on vulnerable women he counseled. He was a predator of women and was ousted, but I had had enough of the church experience after that. I would love to find fellowship again, but then part of me is so wounded I don't want to return. I know church as we know it has to change... it has to keep up with the times without compromising the integrity of the Gospel.

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Tracea Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: eastern US Posts: 12	de-churched I'm not sure about the emerging church movement, at least not by that name. But I am de-churched because I don't like some of what I've seen and experienced in the churches I've belonged to. For starters, I accepted Christ at a very fundamental church that was so legalistic I don't know how I could have managed to spend 15 years there. God's grace was sufficient, but the subtleties of "works mentality" were preached along with grace, confusing people and turning many neurotic. We were saved by grace, but only if bla bla bla... I was more afraid of condemnation there than I was before I got saved! Go figure. Then I went to a church that was far too liberal, where the pastor took advantage of his power and used neuro-linguistic programming on the congregation, and speed seduction techniques on vulnerable women he counseled. He was a predator of women and was ousted, but I had had enough of the church experience after that. I would love to find fellowship again, but then part of me is so wounded I don't want to return. I know church as we know it has to change... it has to keep up with the times without compromising the integrity of the Gospel.