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Mar. 8th, 2009 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sam_gamgeeI'm now back home and wishing the weekend was longer.
The retreat went really well. Our associate pastor was our speaker again this year and the topic was "Open Doors". It was based on the verse "I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name." - Revelation 3:8 (NIV) From the bits that I heard over the course of the weekend, all the women had a great time and got a lot out of it.
And I've been convicted (again) that I really want to work with the LGBTQ? community to show them that God loves them and made them the way they are. I think that a big part of my struggle with this topic is because the Church in general has a history of saying "homosexuality is wrong!" and my individual church is part of the confessing church movement within my denomonation. Part of it states that marriage is only between a man and a woman and marriage is the only place for sex. So, there's definitely some internal conflict on my part in how to deal with that and make sure that I'm doing what God wants me to do and He's starting to spiritually head-smack me.
I also had fun playing games with the other women - on Friday night eight of us played Trivial Pursuit. On Saturday, five or six of us played a game called Tri-Bond, which I'd never played before, but it was fun. And it was amusing - one of the ladies who's going to be moving away over the summer was doing really well and said - part teasing, "God must want me to win."
Speaking of humor - Friday afternoon, one of the students was talking about a dinner party she was going to and how she was going to be taking a store-bought pie because she didn't have anywhere to cook and G, our snarky manager, said, "MacGuyver would've made a souffle with a hot pot." And she replied, "I'm sure he would." And G said, "MacGuyver would've made a hot pot out of a tin can."
The retreat went really well. Our associate pastor was our speaker again this year and the topic was "Open Doors". It was based on the verse "I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name." - Revelation 3:8 (NIV) From the bits that I heard over the course of the weekend, all the women had a great time and got a lot out of it.
And I've been convicted (again) that I really want to work with the LGBTQ? community to show them that God loves them and made them the way they are. I think that a big part of my struggle with this topic is because the Church in general has a history of saying "homosexuality is wrong!" and my individual church is part of the confessing church movement within my denomonation. Part of it states that marriage is only between a man and a woman and marriage is the only place for sex. So, there's definitely some internal conflict on my part in how to deal with that and make sure that I'm doing what God wants me to do and He's starting to spiritually head-smack me.
I also had fun playing games with the other women - on Friday night eight of us played Trivial Pursuit. On Saturday, five or six of us played a game called Tri-Bond, which I'd never played before, but it was fun. And it was amusing - one of the ladies who's going to be moving away over the summer was doing really well and said - part teasing, "God must want me to win."
Speaking of humor - Friday afternoon, one of the students was talking about a dinner party she was going to and how she was going to be taking a store-bought pie because she didn't have anywhere to cook and G, our snarky manager, said, "MacGuyver would've made a souffle with a hot pot." And she replied, "I'm sure he would." And G said, "MacGuyver would've made a hot pot out of a tin can."
