If you have to hide who you are in order to fit in, you aren’t in the right space
If you cannot explore your sanctification and your understanding and if you are not allowed to grow beyond the established walls, then you are in a cult, not a church.
If someone says that the only law is love, and you call him antinomian, then you don’t know what love is, nor do you understand the law.
If you are in a space that loves to use the word “antinomian”, I would advise you to leave.
Sometimes you can just say, “I’m going to go away now” and then do it.
Some people bring peace whenever they enter. Others bring peace whenever they leave. Try to be the former.
A church is not afraid of the work of the Spirit. A church is not afraid of love.
The fatal flaw of Presbyterianism is that those who are supposed to minister spiritual comfort and pastoral care are ALSO the ones who try, convict, and excommunicate. These two, it seems to me, cannot co-exist.
If you cast out a teenager for being gay, trans, or molested, assaulted or pregnant, you are not doing the work of God.
My Only Comfort 
I love these, Sam! Thank you!
Blessings,
Shirl Lee Hemingway shirl.lee.hemingway@gmail.com 541-217-3003 [image: Picture]