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		<title>God&#8217;s love letter&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the message of God&#8217;s love in paraphrased words from scripture in a six minute video. Be blessed! Or maybe not. If you&#8217;ve experienced spiritual abuse, you might be thinking, &#8220;But what does that mean?? God let me get really hurt &#8211; how is that &#8216;love&#8217;?&#8221; God has many reasons for the things he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1042109&amp;post=773&amp;subd=megsmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What is God&#8217;s Will?&#8230;.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How can I know what God wants me to do?&#8221; Ask this question, and often the answer you&#8217;ll get is, &#8220;You need to hear from God, see his hand in circumstances, then expect confirmation.&#8221; Missionaries recount marvelous examples of this. Bakht Singh, a famous indigenous church planter in India, used to tell how he was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1042109&amp;post=723&amp;subd=megsmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Childhood conversion&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In all the discussion about child-rearing methods, one aspect that hasn&#8217;t received much attention is how the issue relates to children&#8217;s conversion. In an Assembly-type group there&#8217;s the assumption that the parents&#8217; &#8220;child training&#8221; is the underpinning of a child&#8217;s salvation. It&#8217;s up to you to discipline your children into the Kingdom. The problem is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1042109&amp;post=713&amp;subd=megsmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does discipline really produce godly character&#8230;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 04:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking with someone today who visited the Assembly once in 1992 with her husband and children. Once, mind you. And that was a long time ago. They never came back, because, as she says, &#8220;I just couldn&#8217;t make the commitment to raise my children that way. It was too hard.&#8221; She felt for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1042109&amp;post=695&amp;subd=megsmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Happy Room</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just finished reading The Happy Room by Catherine Palmer, a fictionalized account of growing up as a missionary kid in Africa. Very interesting parallels with the Assembly. Children of missionaries are now termed &#8220;third culture kids&#8221;. I think many Assembly kids fit that category. Some AK&#8217;s were allowed a certain level of cultural participation. They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1042109&amp;post=670&amp;subd=megsmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Spiritual power&#8221;&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Packing away some old books recently, I flipped one open and saw this sentence, &#8220;The heart breaks with the thought, &#8216;If only I had spent more time with God, I would have had more power.&#8217;&#8221; More power? I&#8217;m reminded of an illustration C. J. B. Harrison used to use about what it means to come [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1042109&amp;post=635&amp;subd=megsmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hope&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was seven years ago last month since G. Geftakys was excommunicated in Fullerton and the Assembly began to crumble. Many folks are finding that getting over it and getting on has been tough. Jon Acuff has a blog post on hope. While he is mainly known for his Christian humor, in this post he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1042109&amp;post=637&amp;subd=megsmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Assembly Kids, MK&#8217;s and PK&#8217;s&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://megsmusings.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/assembly-kids-mks-and-pks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Announcing **drumroll** a new section on the Reflections site &#8211; &#8220;Assembly Kids, MK&#8217;s and PK&#8217;s&#8221;. Finally, former AK&#8217;s don&#8217;t have to sift through stuff that&#8217;s mostly relevant to your parents. The links to what will speak most directly to your situation are all in one place. What&#8217;s with the &#8220;MK&#8217;s&#8221; and &#8220;PK&#8217;s&#8221;, you ask? Well, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1042109&amp;post=633&amp;subd=megsmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on, &#8220;What do we still have to do??&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://megsmusings.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/more-on-what-do-we-still-have-to-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abusive church leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, to recap from the previous post - God&#8217;s standard is not a list of rules. It&#8217;s LOVE. Human beings are totally messed up and unable to love very well. So we need someone to bring justice into the pain we&#8217;ve caused, and&#8230; Do something for us so we can belong in God&#8217;s Circle of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1042109&amp;post=609&amp;subd=megsmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So what do we still have to do??</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of us coming out of performance-based Christian systems are happy to have escaped the pressure of all the stuff you had to do to be &#8220;spiritual&#8221;. So glad that&#8217;s behind us. But there is still a depressing anxiety &#8211; &#8220;I feel that I was a better Christian when I was doing all that stuff. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=megsmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1042109&amp;post=605&amp;subd=megsmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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