Hindsight is 20/20

I had a good long talk with Kedge today. I thought I was going to be there about 15 minutes because I was only stopping in to say, “hi. ” I ended up being there for about 3 hours.

I don’t really know why I do this. I should just go over and talk to her when she’s at home and not take up her work time. But it seems we have the most productive talks at her shop. Even with the kids running around like wild indians.

Things went remarkably well. A lot of things were cleared up. And now we both know where things went wrong.

When Shawn and I told the assembly that we weren’t going to attend anymore they didn’t know how to react. Usually people just slowly fade away. We didn’t.

We didn’t mean to cause such a commotion, but it happened. We can’t go back and change what has happened. We can’t take back what was said. We can’t change how people felt then. But we can hopefully clear things up and change how they feel now.

Apparently when we left and I wrote what I did (and no I’m not going to link to it. If you really want to read it you’ll have to find it the hard way.) I also confused a lot of people. Especially family. All of our family thought that we didn’t want anything to do with them anymore. I want to clarify that right now.

If any family is actually still reading my blog let me make this clear. We want to be around you. We want to be able to talk with you. We are sorry for the way things happened.

Shawn and I spent a few hours with his Aunt and Uncle tonight discussing what happened. I think that we understood each other, even though we believed differently about where we are going. And that’s okay. There’s nothing wrong with that.

Our discussion also clarified a verse that was used earlier. We now know that how it was presented to us, without an explanation of what it meant, lead us to believe that they thought we were “jumping faith.” What was actually meant by it was that by withdrawing from fellowship with them just put us outside of their circle not outside of the faith.

It was decided that a disciplinary action was not needed and none was taken. This means that we can eat and have fellowship with one another. BUT, and I say but, if all parties involved in said fellowship activity or dining activity are not comfortable with us being there we will remove ourselves from the situation, or decline the invitation. Not because we don’t want to be there, but because we don’t want it to be uncomfortable for anyone else.

We would also like to be able to attend meetings on Lord’s Day, or any other day if we feel led to be there. Not to break bread just to attend.

If anyone has any questions, let us know. Leave a comment, email us, call us, send it snail mail, send it down the grapevine that you have a question. We’ll gladly talk with you.