IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE - NO SPIRITUAL CONNECTIVITY
Is there anyone out there. A silly question of course there is. I now have 20 “friends” on Facebook and in
just a month I have received over 630 hits or pages views on my blog site but still no
comments nor response to either the blog or Facebook posting. I did though have two replies to the emails
sent out to the church ministers and Christian friend I know, Both are Baptist
ministers, one a friend I had worked
with 18 months or so back and still meet occasionally for coffee. The other was initially interested in what
I had to say in the email and after a couple of emails suggested we meet up for
coffee. I readily agreed and asked where
and when. He alas must have had a
change of heart for I never heard from him with a time and date.
One person though did respond to my request to be "friends" on Facebook with a number of messages. Having no previous
experience of Facebook when I started it at the beginning of January, I took up it’s suggestion to invited the
minister of Grace Christian Centre in Mutley to be a Facebook “friend”. In the meantime I had found their web site
which gave their address and times of service on a Sunday and followed what I
hope was God’s prompting to go to their Sunday evening service. Alas the web site had not been updated for
sometime and they no longer had services in an evening. The next week I had a Facebook message from
the minister saying he had received my Facebook request but did not accept
invitations from people he did not
know. I therefore told him a little
about myself and that I had tried to go to their evening service the previous
Sunday. There then followed a series of message exchanges as I tried responded to his questions and observations on what I was saying. After a while he ended the exchange, saying
he is spending too much time on Facebook these days and “blocked” any further
correspondence. It does therefore seem
the lady who said I have no spiritual connectivity and should have no part in any
Christian Group is right. If this is so
then there is nothing else I can do but to accept that for reasons no
one is prepared to tell me, I have been “blocked” from being part of the
church. Or is it that I haven’t committed
some mortal sin worthy of being ex-communicated from the church as would first
appear but the God of my youth is not the God of the church of to-day.
The last two or three blogs have been to say
to the friends of old, tell me what I
have done that offences. Jesus said “if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your
brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of
the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.” (Matt 5 v23-24). It is though difficult to be reconciled if
no one is prepared to say what it is they have against me. Only that like the elders of the church in Tavistock said “|Their first duty and responsibility is to protect their sheep” From me?.
If so then all the church leaders have the same responsibility to protect
their flock from me.
It of course may not be some sin that I have to be put
out of the church for, like Paul instructed Timothy but a fear that the leaders
have. A fear that I may not be a
Christian after all but a wolf masquerading as a sheep. If so test out what I am saying as I
continue with the exploration of the past.
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