September 23, 2007
Pressure to Wear a Mask
Heather Fettig
Cleansing Streams class
I go to church every Sunday, make it to prayer meetings at times, and I have been growing with God for about 9 years now. This is enough involvement that the religious eye might think I should have it "all together."
At Cleansing Streams class last Sunday night, I was in a room filled with women who love God and attend Freedom Worship Center. As a group, we were sharing what hindrances in our individual lives keep us from moving forward/deeper with God. I had the option to share or not, and I was feeling kind of cruddy and didn't want other people to know about it. I decided that if I was going to grow closer to these women and to God through this class, I was probably going to have to be real...so I did it. I told 9 other Christian women that I am mad at God and elaborated a little about it. They didn't gasp; their jaws didn't drop; they didn't kick me out of the group. Instead, Pastor Christi and the group prayed for me, that God would give me revelation into my circumstances.
This is my tesimony of the work God has done in people at Freedom Worship Center. Anyone who can extend grace like that has received it first from the Father. I was nervous about how people would respond to what's really going on inside of me. When I took the leap to be real, there was a safe place to land.
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