I have just found this beautiful inclusive mindset. I have to say I am rediscovering my joy…. This concept of inclusiveness is so Christlike to me… after walking away from ministry and quite transparently the Lord this inclusive movement for lack of better terms feels like it’s bringing me back either where I started to worship, Somewhere else the Queer community have been deprived of God’s love as God in the place of their pain and struggles. Since I’ve been listening to Stans and Rays podcast my heart is broken and this message is missing in my community. Our Baltimore churches need to be turned upside down to become fireside up.
Love the explanation of Moses and the symbolism of God’s word. The work that both of you are doing has been long in coming, inclusion and affirming definitely is a new “Vine” reaching out to so many of us that have struggled and those that are struggling now with our sexuality and our religious faith. I tuned out ministers for years and just listened to gospel music which richly inspired me. I just couldn’t listen to the hateful and fearful spoken ministry any longer because God had given me the eternal and internal peace when I was a seventeen year old now 75. Several years ago I came across Stan on Facebook and through Stan’s ministry I found Ray and The Village what a glorious finding what I had been waiting for almost forty years, maybe that’s why of love the story of Moses.😊 May God’s words be taken symbolically and not always so literally and be a blessing to us all.
