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Welcome to the ex-coc board - do feel totally free to browse around through any of past discussions - you can 'bring them forward' simply by posting any sort of response. This is a diverse bunch - and with more members than the relatively few that regularly post. You are not alone.
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Hi! I left almost 40years ago, but I am still figuring out what I believe and what I want.
Moogy
NI COC for over 30 years, but out for over 40 years now
Mostly Methodist for about 30 years.
Left the UMC in 2019 based on their decision to condemn LGBT+ persons and to discipline Pastors who perform same-sex marriages
NI COC for over 30 years, but out for over 40 years now
Mostly Methodist for about 30 years.
Left the UMC in 2019 based on their decision to condemn LGBT+ persons and to discipline Pastors who perform same-sex marriages
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From my experience, the legacy of the CofC is exactly that, that is, as long as you stay in it you will struggle with your faith until you die, because you can never at any point in your life be assured of salvation, i.e., a "condemning" faith. But even then, if you choose to remain in the faith and look to go down another path, I would just say that what helped me was when I discovered grace, something discussed in the CofC only in passing, IMO. But on the bottom line ISTM that faith is never a cake walk, has its ups and downs, like any relationship (look at the Psalms of David), therefore never being completely "struggle free", because it stems from a relationship in the first instance, not from compliance to a 5- or 6-step "plan of salvation".