Some of the songs during my sons worship session made me wonder if the Lord really wanted us to get off our high horse and go back to our old church. This is surely the obvious and only righteous answer.
While coming home from taking my oldest lad to university and I was meditating in the car (Radio 4 were doing a very long reading of the King James version – very good – write in to encourage them!) I felt this even more strongly.
If it were just me, then this is what I would do.
But to do that, I would be asking my wife to go back into the situation where she has been hurt and abused. If she had been mugged in the street I would not ask her to go back that way, past the same muggers, the next day. That’s not love! And if it was just that we had been hurt, if the people gave a half-decent apology, we would go back. But it’s the practicality of it: You can’t just sit back and ignore it – we would have to put our children into what we consider to be a seriously damaged children’s work. And even if they were to put her back in charge of the work, it is too badly broken and basic trust with the other mums so badly lost, that we can’t see it working.
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