Interview with Ed Fernandez part 2
Darin and Robert talk to Darin’s friend Ed Fernandez. Ed is a great friend and a Free Believer who travels to several different Countries with the message of God’s love and grace. He currently spends most of his time in Romania getting to know people one on one and developing relationships with folks who have been steeped in religious tradition. Ed speaks a little about his journey on the Free Believer path and what that might look like in the coming months and years. He shares his concerns and opens up about the things he’s insecure about on a personal level in regards to where things are heading with Christianity. This is a transparent moment that is both touching and inspiring. You’ll enjoy this great Free Believer. You can learn more about Ed at www.RiverOfLife.net
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Heart to heart face to face breath to breath, thats how close he is to you and i. He will never leave you or forsake you. I am David he is Love she is Love and God is good i want to help share him with you. These things i know faith hope and love abide and the greatest of these is love grab on to all of the love in this life as possible hold on to hope for a good future and a good life here and in eternity and have faith in God. I love you all sorry been away so long and will try to be here to support this ministry more. i have been supporting this ministry for a long time now and give them my heart. there real and no one can stop them. So all you people that are out to get Darin down please listen to your heart and realize that you need Jesus and you need relationship and you need Love. And you shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. Love ya, David Joseph Brncik
Ed, I don't know if you'll even see this, but your encouragement about God being ok with our questioning and deepest concerns brought tears to my eyes. I needed to hear that again. Thank you.
This is an up to date honest assessment of our current difficulty in communicating what we know/believe. My counselor told me at the beginning of my lengthy journey through therapy, "if the church was doing its job he'd be out of business." How desperately we need real connection/conversation/sharing in our relationships. We don't need the roles/jobs assigned to us in most of our church experiences, which have a common denominator of trying to help us and others be better Christians, but lead us only into deeper difficulties just trying to navigate life. I do appreciate Ed's assessment that there is a mission field in front of us right in our churches if we are still there. I had to recognize that that door was closed to me and I had to step out trusting that God would bring the people into my life who would minister to me and I to them, which has happened now for the last several years. I attend church but don't belong anywhere.
And that is good.
I don't know if this really fits with the conversation other than there was some comments about the great stuff that happens in the bible but we don't necessarily see the same kind of miracles or interventions today. But you what I really, really want more than anything else...to have a God that says what He means and means what He says. That's all.
I am wondering if we have much understanding of the difference between God's love (agape) and our very human understanding/experience of love. We get all tangled up with the consequences of ours and others' choices and inevitably suffer. In our human thinking we have a hard time equating love with suffering. Part of me still says that God should perform His miracles in a more predictable way--I mean if He really loves like we talk about so easily why can't we have more input in the kind of miracles He chooses to do for us?
Well I am just asking and am open to others' input/discussion.
If the consequences of sin is death how do we really equate that with an all-loving God? Or maybe we should ask what is sin, really? I used to think it would be a sin not to go to church regularly, but now I see how my relationship with God was one based on fear rather than love.
But it is still confusing to sort it all out.
Any thoughts from any of you seasoned free believers?
As far as some of the questions that life generates...in all of my searching I don't know if I'll even begin to scratch the surface. But in regards to my previous comment about wanting a God who says what He means and means what He says, then I'm seeing that it all comes back to Jesus. In Jeus, God says what He means and in Jesus' death and ressurection, God means what He says. I find some comfort in this, His love shown in Jesus' life.
Enjoyed the two episodes with Ed. As a missionary who has left religion I have a lot of questions on how to interact with religious institutions, and raise funds to continue caring for these children and others. Nice to know that there is someone else out there who is struggling through these issues.
Nice to see you over hear Johnny B.
dang! ^here - LOL!