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In Reply to: Re: Are F. members victims? posted by goth88 on August 19, 2002 at 16:11:05:
It wasn't that long ago that someone said to me that they honestly couldn't see how they could serve the Lord outside the Family. This is not to say that they couldn't serve the Lord outside the Family, but just they couldn't see how.
I remember those feelings from when I was in the Family. It was why when I left I felt like I had left Gods highest will. It has been a long and winding road. It has taken almost 20 years to where I feel like I am in service to Jesus. (I don't mean this exmember community stuff.)I actually do have a ministry within my church, Thank God. It's fulfilling and meaningful to me. There is a core of church members who know about my past with the Family and they help keep me on the straight and narrow. They lend a listening ear when my desire to serve the Lord runs into my inclination to run screaming from all things church-like that we were warned against in the Family. I know that we learned things wrong in the Family. I am truly sorry for that, because I love Jesus so much and always did.
I can't speak for my friends. I know they can't see it the way I do. I will be patient.
