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God afternoon to the people on this forum.
I am Rich, and I was saved after my girlfriend at the time broke her back trampolining. She was in hospital for 5 months, and for the first 2 months it looked like she would never walk again. I spent the entire time crying and blaming god for punishing her unfairly. She turned to me and asked me to explain my anger. She asked me to pray with her and instead of praying for herself to heal she thanked god for his love and kindness and for showing her another way to live. This humility in the face of god broke my sence of self entitlement and self importance. It broke down all the false beleifs i thought came from god. She showed me the way from the dark false belief that I had held for so long and taught me about the kind and compassionate god that she knew and loved. Three months later she was walking and healed and I will never be able to repay the debt that I owe God for his bountiful and beautiful mercy.
My home church is the Flackwell Health Methodist Church in the United Kingdom, where I recently married my wife (the girlfrend from above). My favorite bible verse will always be "first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye". as it is something that I frequently need reminding of!
I honestly believe that all should be able to make their voice heard, and that they should be able to say what they wish how they wish, and that freedom of speech is the greatest gift that god has given us.
However, speech should be open to debate and I hope to be able to talk frankly and openly without "flaming" or "trolling" with the people here and to understand their views better.
I am Rich, and I was saved after my girlfriend at the time broke her back trampolining. She was in hospital for 5 months, and for the first 2 months it looked like she would never walk again. I spent the entire time crying and blaming god for punishing her unfairly. She turned to me and asked me to explain my anger. She asked me to pray with her and instead of praying for herself to heal she thanked god for his love and kindness and for showing her another way to live. This humility in the face of god broke my sence of self entitlement and self importance. It broke down all the false beleifs i thought came from god. She showed me the way from the dark false belief that I had held for so long and taught me about the kind and compassionate god that she knew and loved. Three months later she was walking and healed and I will never be able to repay the debt that I owe God for his bountiful and beautiful mercy.
My home church is the Flackwell Health Methodist Church in the United Kingdom, where I recently married my wife (the girlfrend from above). My favorite bible verse will always be "first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye". as it is something that I frequently need reminding of!
I honestly believe that all should be able to make their voice heard, and that they should be able to say what they wish how they wish, and that freedom of speech is the greatest gift that god has given us.
However, speech should be open to debate and I hope to be able to talk frankly and openly without "flaming" or "trolling" with the people here and to understand their views better.
as inspired by Deuteronomy 8:3.
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