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Originally Posted by Barnabas
I am very thankful to the Lord for all the responses to my post. What motivated me to write was a deep need of fellowship and the result is a deep exercise to hear our Lord’s voice and follow Him. I have received all of your fellowship in love, and Joe’s advice to prove all things (1 Thes. 5:21). I still have not been able to write back to my dear friend, but I believe the Lord will give me the right things to say to him in love.
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Each of us had the need to validate the feelings of our inner conscience concerning the Recovery. We all had many unanswered questions. The message we constantly heard repeated in the Recovery did not match our inner "truth meter." We often silenced the gnawing suspicions thinking we must be "the only one."
I hope and pray that some of this discussion is helpful to you. Once we are delivered from the ministry demands of having "no opinion," the ideas start to fly, and things can get messy at times. I sometimes take consolation in the old adage, "iron sharpens iron." We really should allow all of our own cherished beliefs to be challenged, i.e. "test all things," until we are reduced to those which we are willing to die for.