[Faith-talk] being healed from blindness

Thu Dec 19 16:54:46 UTC 2013

Our church has probably been under some attack because I heard that there 
was a letter with death threats when we started a microbusiness helping 
women with AIDS in Kenya and Uganda and it is called church of the Open Door 
but the newspaper once called it Church of the Open Sore because we 
encourage people to be transparent with each other about what is really 
going on in their lives.  We do not have a bus ministry.  One of the pastors 
asked me to look into getting a bus to transport people with dosabilities 
once but the liability insurance was astronomical and so we couldn't do it 
but now paratransit goes there so people use that who can't drive.
Maureen

-----Original Message----- 
From: Poppa Bear
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:58 AM
To: Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion
Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] being healed from blindness

Moreene, our Churches sound very simular in many ways. The thing is, though
our church has programs like yours, and has the only church with a bus
ministry that goes around the intire city to pick up and drop off children,
our church comes under atack for being too much of a light in our town, we
have an extremely libral news paper that hates our Church, but at the same
time, our church bends over backwards to do so much for our intire state. We
have so many programs for those in need, classes every week for adiction
problems, PTSD, vetrin programs, widow asistance and on and on, but we take
Biblical posissions very seriously when it comes to marriage, preaching the
word and living out the great comission and it has rubbed plenty of people
the wrong way, that is until they spend some time at the Church and feel the
love and community that is there.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Maureen Pranghofer" <maureensmusic at comcast.net>
To: "Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion"
<faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 6:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] being healed from blindness

> Your church sounds lots like ours.  It's a large church, about 5000 
> members and they say right off the bat "If you want to get connected, 
> become involved, people won't come to you."  Consequently I have written 
> music for the church, was on worship team for years, have contributed and 
> been in Bible studies, am the scheduler for a ministry doing home repair 
> to widows and abused women and disabled folks, am a hospital and nursing 
> home visitor and in a prayer group.  My husband is taking his 7th trip to 
> Haiti where the church built a home for disabled children.  Even though he 
> is in a wheelchair and born with no arms they let him do this.  So we 
> enjoy giving. The church had done lots of ome mantainance things for us, 
> put up our Christmas tree, has youth come once a month to help with 
> whatever we have need of doing, provided me a reader, and as been involved 
> in our lives in so many ways but it's because the church is not the 
> organization, leadership or building it's the people.  We do exposatory 
> preaching working our way through Bible books week after week just a few 
> verses at a time.  Took the congregation 5 years to study Matthew.  Maybe 
> there is a relationship between ow the church is in the Word and the way 
> people are treated, don't know just wondering.  I apologize for this being 
> so long.
> Maureen
>
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Poppa Bear
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 10:13 PM
> To: Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion
> Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] being healed from blindness
>
> This is all diffirent for me and sounds a little odd because in my case I 
> am
> usually the care taker for those around me, I invite those who have less
> over for dinner, xmas, and Thanksgiving. We end up being a small refuge 
> for
> quite a few families and have a couple give and take open door 
> relationships
> with members of my Church. I have a gentlemen  who is faithful as a
> grandfather clock to call me every friday to see if I want to go to the 
> mens
> breakfast and pick me up bright and early every time. Another lady picks 
> up
> my girls every morning to take them to the Christian school. The thing is
> that our Pastor really drives home the point of living out active 
> Christian
> lives that consist of faithful Christian service that leads to great
> oppertunities to love and bless others and as people start to listen to 
> his
> preaching from the word they find that the truth that "it is better to 
> give
> then to receive" is a faithful and tru promis. Never the less I am sure 
> that
> there are plenty of broken and lonely hearts in my Church just dying for a
> closer relationship with somebody in the body.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "RJ Sandefur" <joltingjacksandefur at gmail.com>
> To: "Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion"
> <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 5:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] being healed from blindness
>
>
>> Unforchantely, that is all to comon place. RJ
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Paul" <oilofgladness47 at gmail.com>
>> To: "Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion" 
>> <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 9:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] being healed from blindness
>>
>>
>>> I've an answer to this problem about the church pitying us because of 
>>> our blindness, and I read this statement many years ago in a book about 
>>> blind welfare from the RNIB.  The main reason, as I and the author of 
>>> the book see it, is that there is yet no practical substitution to the 
>>> human eye. For some deaf and hard of hearing people there is the 
>>> cochlear implant and for people who have lost limbs or arms there are 
>>> artificial ones which, although naturally not like the originals in 
>>> their totality, nevertheless work to some extent.  Unfortunately even in 
>>> my church, even though they don't pity me, no one will invite me over to 
>>> their place for a meal and some good conversation.  This happened after 
>>> our Thanksgiving Day service, and I pray it won't happen after Christmas 
>>> Day services either.  Hope that was an adequate explanation.  Paul
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "RJ Sandefur" <joltingjacksandefur at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion" 
>>> <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 7:53 PM
>>> Subject: [Faith-talk] being healed from blindness
>>>
>>>
>>>> Dear list, First, as someone wi!th a doctorate in theology, I must say 
>>>> I've not seen anywhere in scripture Christ refur to blindness as 
>>>> something to be looked upon as evil, and yet, the church tens to pity 
>>>> us. I've not seen this in my own church thank the Lord, but I know some 
>>>> of you have. God allowed to be blind, and I don't need some faulse 
>>>> teacher to tell me to claim my healing, just so they can bum money off 
>>>> me
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