Self-revelation is always a huge risk.
Debbie
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Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] Poetry, Literature,
Imagination - Love of Language
> 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
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> 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.
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