tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28685833.post2129584006178450142..comments2015-10-09T12:57:15.954-05:00Comments on Jesus Christ - My Only Boast: Trials and TemptationsAmy R. Maxwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13318380797551064939noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28685833.post-70202964661306401392007-02-25T22:24:00.000-06:002007-02-25T22:24:00.000-06:00Amy,I am just now reading your comments on my site...Amy,<BR/>I am just now reading your comments on my site(s). Thank you for taking the time to write! Whether you realize it or not, you do impart wisdom to me and I am so grateful that you would be used by the Father to convict me and to encourage me. I won't go into it here, but know that I am praying for you. I am so sorry you have hurt so much recently. Again, I will take your name before the Father. I do not say that lightly, and fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it), I know how to pray for you! Sometimes I find reason to be thankful for my circumstances if God will use it to help me understand others and their sufferings.<BR/><BR/>About the women's ministry comment...which I just now read (I'm behind!)...I so agree with your thoughts. I also see the simplicity within which the early church met and fellowshipped and grew. There was (and still is) no need for so much of the fluff and stringent organization that we live by today. While the ladies in my church moved to do a Beth Moore study this time (although I admit I wanted to go in a different direction), I am thankful to see new faces in our class. But, I fear it will be short lived and numbers will dwindle and some of that fellowship will be lost because of laziness really. And I'm not driven by numbers, lest anyone reading this think that's what I'm getting at. At this point, I simply want the women who are ALREADY members of our church to grow in fellowship with and love for one another. But, as you may have experienced in your own church, there are always women who just refuse to be involved. I guess that's a problem all across the board. <BR/>I've not picked up Duncan/Hunt's book in a while, so I need to do that in order to further wrestle with this issue. I don't want to just leave it alone, but I do want to be as Biblical as possible in regard to this (and of course, all issues in life!).<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the thought-provoking words. As always, I so appreciate you and am encouraged by you, sister. I pray great blessings over you and BJ and little Lydia. Keep pressing on in Texas. God is being glorified in your life!<BR/>Much love, friend,<BR/>-glenna-glenna marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18348224654818247656noreply@blogger.com