As for me, I'm with Christine--the more stories you tell, the more it blesses me. I love it!!! But, OTOH, the more fodder it provides for those who grasp at any opportunity to malign you for any/everything. So I can't ask you to do that if you don't want to expose yourself by being intimate with the accomplices of the Accuser. izzy
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Miller Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 10:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Poetry, Literature, Imagination - Love of Language Izzy wrote: > Ahhhh, to hear stories from Lance... > "Once upon a time I met a book. Then I > began living in a bookstore..Oh, yeah, > and I had a wife." LOL. She has a point, Lance. Let's here some stories from you. :-) We still don't know you very well. Speaking of which, I always have trouble with knowing how much to tell stories about myself. Sometimes when I do, people will criticize that I'm trying to bring glory to myself, but my oldest daughter Christine always begs me to tell more and more stories. She told me the other day that she always wants to hear me teach because she wants to hear some anecdote that I might bring up about some event that happened to me, especially events when I was her age. So I am always debating whether to tell on myself or not tell on myself. I enjoy learning about other people the way Lance does, so that makes me think I should tell more stories about myself, but then I am concerned that others think I am trying to lift myself up in some way. I find saftey in just talking about what the Word of God says, but then I wonder if maybe I should draw more from my own real life experiences. Case in point. Last week in teaching on healing being in the Atonement, I ask myself: do I tell all these people that I don't have health insurance, that I deliver my own babies without doctor or midwife, do I tell not just of failures in prayer (I ended up telling two instances of this) but also of successes in prayer? Do I explain how this works out in real life for me, or do I just present the Word of God to them and tell them to believe it? I welcome comments from anyone about how much we should talk about ourselves in fellowship and ministry. Peace be with you. David Miller. ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed. ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed.
