TOP 5 REASONS PEOPLE LEAVE CHURCH:
1. You hurt my feelings
2. You hurt my feelings
3. You hurt my feelings
4. You hurt my feelings
5. You hurt my feelings
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Too true
Did they hurt your feelings?
True that.
True that.
Some day the truth that feelings are simply reactions to knowledge will be understood by all. The heart has brain cells and communicates behind the conscious level.
Interesting study with machine reading brain signals found that it could predict a choice before the person realized his mind had already chosen. Neuroscience is so much fun.
That is why Paul put so much emphasis on our controlling what goes into our mind and what we think about instead of just having our ears tickled.
That occured after leaving the LCMS after losing a battle with a pastor for his numerous breaches of office confidentiality.
Before that was the LCMS pastor breaching his office confidentiality in order to blackball members from serving on committees. I was the head elder at the time, and also got smeared during the ensuing battle; so, I know the member complaints were valid.
In their own private church of their mind.