That's the general tenor, but I can't think of any specific passages. I once had much more faith than I do now and more than one person told me I ought to start a church. The last thing we need are more churches. Occasional spiritual advice is about all I feel led to do if asked, and there is no guarantee that it is the correct advice.
I get a little touchy about the woman part, never felt called to be any kind of spiritual leader, tried to lead a bible study class once, and had to honestly admit to myself there was much I didn't know. Maybe God used some of the good in that effort anyway. Who knows?
I thank God daily for leading me out of the Apostate Methodist Church.
I officially left in 1990 and converted to catholicism. I have many pleasant memories of the Methodist church of my youth, the church suppers, Sunday school, my friends, was married there, all of it. Something never really took spiritually though which I blame more on myself and not the church. There is no going back except I would like to get permission to photograph a lovely stained glass window.
I've told more than one person that for me, it was out of the frying pan, into the fire. Please don't suggest any alternatives. I'm too old and in poor health to make any more changes. Had a nice Baptist couple at the door this morning.
There were a lot of very good things in that Methodist Church and could still be. A female pastor baptized my granddaughter who claims to be atheist now. It's little wonder with all the spiritual confusion and chaos afoot in the land.
I wonder what John Wesley would have to say to those church boards who are approving all these behaviors.
What church did you turn to?
Independant Baptist.