Comments on: Changing My Religion (Processing Thoughts About Faith)

By: C.F.

C.F. — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:54:29 +0000

There are many who have been searching and feeling like they have a portion of the light but can’t bask in the glory of the whole light. All religions contain some form of this life and most direct people to good. However there is one church that contains all of the light, restored in its fulness. After Christ was crucified and his apostles killed the authority to act in God’s name or priesthood authority was taken from the earth. Christ’s established church was shattered into a million pieces, and churches were created with varies pieces as their foundations. In 1820 a young boy named Joseph Smith also was inquiring as to which of all the churches he should join. At length he decided to ask God which church to join. The answer came in perhaps the most glorious way possible. God the father and his son Jesus Christ appeared to the boy Joseph telling him to join none of the churches but that God had a work for him to do. Joseph Smith became the first prophet of this dispensation. The church Christ established has been restored in its fulness. There is a living prophet today receiving revelation from a loving heavenly father his name is Thomas S. Monson and there are twelve apostles on the earth again. The Book of Mormon is another witness of Jesus Christ, and a record of the ancient inhabitants of America. Those who read this book and pray in sincerity of heart can know by the power of the Holy Ghost that this is truly Christ’s church. I have done this for myself and now know this is true! Come and bask in the fullness of Christ’s light. Read and find out for yourself.

By: bijou

bijou — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:24:37 +0000

hey professor Lee,
i read your blog for the first time this morning,
wanted to see what all the hype was about .
it’s pretty scary that feeling you got huh? kind of like
where am i? like when you wake up on your bed upside
down(maybe that’s just me).
i consider myself a new christian sooo i might not know
what you are going through or went through but… i felt
like this pretty often. i feel like there needs to be something
more all the time. When God doesn’t blow my mind i kind
of get bored…ish. When i go back to churches i used to go
to most of them feel this way and its very discouraging.
I am not really sure how i found comfort though . Except i
stopped focusing on others and focused more on God. I
like to be watered and fertilized and taken care of. Which is
what i feel i get from God when i focus on Him all the time. So
when i go to churches i used to go to(now i don’t because i live
on campus) i feel that i’ve grown with God and i feel awkward
because i’m not sure how to relate with people who don’t seem
to have grown in the same direction as me because we didn’t grow
together like we used to. Friends at home and i grew at the same
rate it seemed because we went to the same services, read the same
books, went to the same events. My encouragement is to not worry.
Remember you’re alive, and it’s sunny outside(usually).

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:39:32 +0000

Thanks for your note AJ…glad you see you visiting my blog

By: AJ Swoboda

AJ Swoboda — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:21:56 +0000

Charles…

I fully understand. I struggle, yet love as you do. Thanks for your honesty. It chirps at my soul when I began to complain, but at times that is all I have to do. Grace to my wife. May she have the strength to put up.

I am comforted by the fact that love is always non-denominational.

Blessings

By: ABC Pastor » A Coffeehouse Theology Brew » american born chinese pastor

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:26:07 +0000

[...] help us better navigate through our faith journey. Amen to that. BTW Charles Lee has a great post (Changing My Religion) about processing our faith journey. I love the discussion that is happening [...]

By: Admin

Admin — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:57:34 +0000

Hey Derrick, yes…I’m Admin

Greg, I learned from the best.

By: greg

greg — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:34:49 +0000

I think charles is a heretic….

By: Derrick Engoy

Derrick Engoy — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:36:51 +0000

Wow…great to see you on here Ken.

Hey Admin…you wouldn’t happen to be Charles?

By: Admin

Admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:54:24 +0000

Thanks Angie for your note and kind words…welcome to my blog space

I really like your thoughts. I too would like to see some tangible changes in our movement. I’m glad to hear that you and your husband are processing some of these thoughts.

Ken, thanks for clarifying…I presumed that you were referring to something similar as mentioned. By the way, glad to see you here.

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:06:33 +0000

theology of remembrance is just a fancy way of saying that God, throughout salvation history made it almost mandatory for His people to remember how He had revealed Himself through particular events in their history. Apparently, it’s important to God that we NOT forget the expressions of his love and faithfulness. The primary NT example, of course, is the eucharist/communion. But the Old Testament feasts are case in point. Through the feasts, it was built into the fabric of the life of the nation to remember. For me this is significant because I think we’re constantly being told to forget about the past (especially the bad stuff). But a theology of remembrance allows me to remember not only the life-defining ways God clearly met me in the past, but it also allows me to redemptively remember the “events I would rather forget”, and helps me to see even the painful past in light of God’s redeeming love and grace.

The other significant thing for me here is that a theology of remembrance suggests that we don’t have to guess at our future…that the future God has intended for us is best informed by the past…the past that God is and has redeemed, that is.

I can go on…but that should be enough to frame the issue for now.