tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37091954.post7259872175321536126..comments2024-03-07T02:42:15.115-06:00Comments on Morning Rush: PRETENDING: A LIFETIME OF GETTING BYTerry Rushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143128192380736154noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37091954.post-91409448325487828792015-12-16T17:41:15.656-06:002015-12-16T17:41:15.656-06:00Kent and I spent most of our lives within the auto...Kent and I spent most of our lives within the autonomous churches of Christ…<br /><br />We also spent many years believing some variation of, "we may not have a monopoly on the entire truth about Jesus, but members-of-the-church are the only group we see who are striving to be 'first century christians'." <br /><br />….and for the past two decades have lived in areas where the majority of people have never heard of that group of churches. <br /><br />And we found that the people surrounding us have no life experience similar to singing with instrumental music [or not], taking a ceremonial bread and grape juice weekly, meeting with like-minded people three times per week in "the building", or meeting together to listen to males read from our sacred writings and then expound on the meaning of those writings...<br /><br />People around us do, though, have life experience similar to day to day search for meaning, purpose, and truth.<br /><br />It was a difficult pattern to dismantle in ourselves….and, as you said, Jesus is the only way to break through barriers in ourselves first, then in people around us, second. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00475524619573313354noreply@blogger.com