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MoheJohe,

You reminded me of some of my family members.

I went through several different practices before having coverted to Christian then to Christo Eclectic and the funny thing was that- my Maternal Grandmother knew- my brother knew and my mother knew and not one of them ever laid down guidelines for what terms a person could or couldn't use- instead they all figured that since I have a bit of a strong sense for reveling in my own Individuality and going against the grain in life any ways- that I was on the road to discovering my perpetual direction hehehe. I did so quite a bit back in the day as it was so I took such thoughts with relative ease hehe.

Not a whole lot phased my side of the family back in the day but I can garantee that my husband's side would have had several differences of opinion. My husband's side of the family- minus 2- are devout Lutherans and they take their Denominational Spiritual views a little too seriously and mostly because my Father-in-Law happens to be an active part of the Altar Crew for their church (I've seen it first hand- unfortunately) hence their extreme pressure regarding "Thou must attendeth Chruch every Sunday as such is ordered by the Lord- Sayeth the Lord". Good Night I hate that!

Now granted that I know that my side of the family wouldn't raise much- if any issues about my being a Christo Eclectic- I'm pretty sure that my husband's side would raise a fairly large stink about whether I was truly following the path of Christ or not and mostly because I'm not doing so in the ways that Humanity devised in order to gain Spiritual control over its own nor am I making it a point to ignore the true spiritual relationship with Christ that I was meant to have.  Such ideals would come out of them- just as they came out of my husband at first- but in "Beat around the bush" style ways in hopes to come out all knowing and infinitely right about such. Been there- done that before- right?

Either way: My husband had already explained to them at one point- why it was that I don't attend church and he told me- that he told them that- I don't believe in Denominationalism and that I had- had some very bad experiences with a religious organization as a child and in such regards- he's right for reasoning that Over-zealous- Domineering- Control freak Berean Lutherans ruined the whole church scene for me thanks to how one of their foster home / group homes had wrongfully treated me.

This is the narrwed down description of Berean Lutherans- If I were to tell the whole story- it would take up at least a full page:

Bereans who encorporate any denomination into their practice ( Berean Lutheran, Berean Methodist etc. etc- they're out there- trust me ) have a tendency to over do it with discplinary measures regarding anything and everything and so much so that it literally reaches the point of being considered downright abusive. They're over zealously self righteous and worst yet they blaspheme from here to kingdom-come and back. They ever so blatently dare to claim that they have the power above all and were blessed with the grace of God to save souls which I know for a fact is a Bold Faced LIE as well as sheer and utter Blasphemy!

They use such blasphemy to cover up the fact that they are religiously power hungry and they like to think themselves as being the right hands of Christ and could change the world to their way of Spiritually thinking so that years down the road they will have full Spiritual control over it- which I tend to know is just being down-right Spiritually stupid and a means of purchasing a one way ticket straight to the pits of fire!

For 24 years now- I have followed the Independent and Solitary path in everything that I have practiced and or have done in life thanks to the Berean Lutherans. I see the truth for what it really is and I have known on several occasions what my missions were beyond having suffered at their Evil hands and I have done everything that I can to be the supportive shoulder down the road of life- the Defender of the under-dog- the closet cleaner aka dragging skeletons out of closets and so much more. 

If my Parents-in-Law knew the full story behind my loathing of denominationalism and my complete contempt for attending church- I think they would either understand- or stand and defend various other denominational sects from fitting into the same details as the Berean Lutherans much like my husband still does- since there are other forms of Lutheranism as well- too many forms if you ask me. I have my own theory on Lutheranism as it is and such more or less centers around Spiritual Independence- not the creation of another denomination named after a man. Such is a story for another time though.

In getting back to basics here:

I tend to think that even though I have made things obvious enough in my own way: Should my Parents-in-Law raise an issue over my Christo Eclectic Path at any given time- I have ways of dragging out the real stories regarding the true histories behind the founding of various denominations and in conclusion I can always throw in the ever popular fact that John the Baptist followed God in his own Solitary way and that he loved God just as much as everyone else did even though he was beheaded thanks to an evil woman and the fowl hell-bound ways of royalty during his time yet even He was rewarded for his loyalty and now resides with God in Heaven just as he knew and held infinite faith in the fact that he would.

John the Baptist is truly one to admire in a way- he was a very blessed man. 

In light of the Christo Craft: We too are a blessed breed and sooner or later folks are going to come to know that. Our missions regarding both life and Spirituality are different than that of the rest of the world. We were made and designed to carry out specific tasks in life in gifted ways and to a great degree- we are like the Heavenly Hosts' Special forces Soldiers. We're called in when we're needed and we're garanteed to get the job done swiftly and efficiently yet with forces that are so powerful that only we have been assigned to handle via using our blessed gifts as our tools for handling such.

I have yet to share that very ideal with my husband. Even though he has come around to finally accepting my path- the understanding for the reasoning behind it is going to take a bit of work and as I will probably find myself saying- more commonly than not: "Everything in God's / Other's time and when the time comes be ready to say and or do what ever needs said and or done."

I make my way around one way or another hehehehe.

Jade Dove aka Missy.



(Message edited by Jade_Dove On 06-03-2010 11:21 AM)