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My Journey to being Egalitarian.
I grew up under the umbrella's shadow. It blocked out the light of the LORD and I will get into how it did this. Mother didn't work until the household budget started getting very thin and we had beans 5 times a week.
I had wanted to be baptized a Christian when I was 9. My father made me wait until I was 12. I had nightmares about burning in the fiery pit. I wasn't very happy when I was small and had to be sent to special education classes because I tended to disrupt the classroom. I was too disruptive to even go camping with girl scouts. So I never went away from home until after I turned 12.
There were the paddlings that left bruises. I was paddled over a rumple in my bed. That one was probably the worst one.
Then I turned twelve. My parents permitted me to be baptized a Christian. My Grandmother gave me a Bible for Christmas as a gift after that. I started reading it every day, and bit by bit, it set the stage, for my freedom that would come later. My behavior began to change. Finally I got sent to normal classes. Then in my teens to Christian service camp. For the first time I was experiencing, so the speak the rays of the sun and I began to flourish as a person. Then I married. My husband immediately wanted me to work to supplement the household income, but I had been emotionally malnourished growing up under that umbrella and didn't know how to interview for a job, let alone dress for an interview. During this time he took me to a friend, who taught me to drive a car. My husband wanted me to be independent. Unable to find a job I enlisted in the Navy. The military is like a rock polisher. It buffed off all the rough edges and taught me team work, it also taught me to function in the world and to be independent. I served ten years until a hereditary medical condition - celiac disease, ended my career. During this time I still read the bible.
Here are the verses that the Lord used the finally snap that umbrella shut and let the light of His glory shine and set me free.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. - Galatians 3:28
So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, - Acts 10:34
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. - Romans 10:12
This doesn't sit too well with my siblings, but I have learned that the Bible teaches Christ alone has spiritual authority over me, and every believer in His kingdom is a priest unto God. Nobody else has spiritual authority over anybody else.
I grew up under the umbrella's shadow. It blocked out the light of the LORD and I will get into how it did this. Mother didn't work until the household budget started getting very thin and we had beans 5 times a week.
I had wanted to be baptized a Christian when I was 9. My father made me wait until I was 12. I had nightmares about burning in the fiery pit. I wasn't very happy when I was small and had to be sent to special education classes because I tended to disrupt the classroom. I was too disruptive to even go camping with girl scouts. So I never went away from home until after I turned 12.
There were the paddlings that left bruises. I was paddled over a rumple in my bed. That one was probably the worst one.
Then I turned twelve. My parents permitted me to be baptized a Christian. My Grandmother gave me a Bible for Christmas as a gift after that. I started reading it every day, and bit by bit, it set the stage, for my freedom that would come later. My behavior began to change. Finally I got sent to normal classes. Then in my teens to Christian service camp. For the first time I was experiencing, so the speak the rays of the sun and I began to flourish as a person. Then I married. My husband immediately wanted me to work to supplement the household income, but I had been emotionally malnourished growing up under that umbrella and didn't know how to interview for a job, let alone dress for an interview. During this time he took me to a friend, who taught me to drive a car. My husband wanted me to be independent. Unable to find a job I enlisted in the Navy. The military is like a rock polisher. It buffed off all the rough edges and taught me team work, it also taught me to function in the world and to be independent. I served ten years until a hereditary medical condition - celiac disease, ended my career. During this time I still read the bible.
Here are the verses that the Lord used the finally snap that umbrella shut and let the light of His glory shine and set me free.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. - Galatians 3:28
So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, - Acts 10:34
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. - Romans 10:12
This doesn't sit too well with my siblings, but I have learned that the Bible teaches Christ alone has spiritual authority over me, and every believer in His kingdom is a priest unto God. Nobody else has spiritual authority over anybody else.
