You are finding how well the shoe fits when you were never even meant to wear it.
NoLynch Atlas, Old S;ayings Reconsidered, Hammerspace Publishers, 2024 Ed.
In writing my Christmas letter for the blog last year, I am told I offended some of the people at the church I was attending: they felt attacked. But were they attacked?
First of all, I wasn’t attacking anyone. I was telling my story, which ended in an appeal for aid and help. I was not speaking as the adversary to anyone, so there was no attack from my pen, from my keyboard. If someone felt at attack, it had to come from themselves, from within.
Those people who felt attacked weren’t reading the letter and trying my shoe on to understand how I feel, they were reading the letter and trying the shoe on to see if it was worth walking off with. Well, get over it — it wasn’t about you. Yes, you are important, but this was my letter, and my need, and you can’t even stay focused on my hurt long enough to console or counsel me because you have to be offended that I even can be hurting.
Second of all, if there was anything aimed at you, as my friends and brothers in Christ (or so I thought), You should have seen it as a challenge, an opportunity to grow, to serve, to help, to lift a brother up. That you see it as an attack, says that you see yourselves as my adversaries. I didn’t know we were supposed to be adversaries in the church. I still don’t see you as adversaries.
Just because your leaders have chosen to be my enemies in Christ, doesn’t mean that you have to follow them down that road. Remember, every week you say “Together with Christ, We Care.” Please explain to me how showing “we care” means a boot out the door to everything that makes you uncomfortable. Or show me what it really means that “Together with Christ, We Care.”
At The Rainbow 