Well, crap.

I posted this on the Raytractor's blog yesterday.

So, I had a conversation with God earlier today.

It started off at church. Four weeks ago, we started a study of 1 Corinthians, and got to chapter 4 this morning.

Here's a small excerpt of what we read:

5So be careful not to jump to conclusions before the Lord returns as to whether or not someone is faithful. When the Lord comes, he will bring our deepest secrets to light and will reveal our private motives. And then God will give to everyone whatever praise is due.


So God says, "Look, you can disagree with Ray all you want. That's fine. But take another look there at that verse. That one's for you right now."

So, I said to God "Yeah, but didn't you specify in the gospels that there's a difference between judging and being judgmental? I'm not judging hypocritically, which is the thing you have a problem with, right?

Aren't you? What have you said about ministries?


I have said many times that if one ministry is harming another ministry and taking away from it, it needs to shut down.

And besides that, Ray is being faithful to his calling in the way he best knows how. It's not the way I would do it. I disagree with the way he does it. Dislike it, even. But the fact of the matter is, that's not my place as I read this morning.

I can disagree with Ray all I want, but as long as I'm part of a group of people whose sole purpose for banding together is to "Detract" from him, then I can't call myself a faithful follower of Christ.

I will still comment and post on Ray's site. I'll still disagree with Ray. I'll still admit openly that most of you are smarter than I. I'll still tell you the ways that you're cool and actually try to explain how my views are different from yours and why. But I can't do it here any more.

I hope you all find the truth about Jesus. But you know that already. I've never kept that a secret.

And I hope that maybe the college and/or youth kids that I train in the future will know their faith well enough to be able to hold a conversation with you without loosing sight of how cool you are.