Sunday, 15 February 2015

Is there anyone out there with whom there is a spiritual connectivity

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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