This past weekend, I was invited to come to Jen's Uncle's wedding that was Renaissance themed. It was a very interesting wedding! very low key and close family. I was very honored to have been invited to the ceremony. The bride rode a horse with Jen's Uncle David lead her in. Jen looked amazingly gorgeous in her dress. I wore a pretty neat outfit myself. It was neat because walking around with the horses in our outfits, I really felt like we were actually in the 1600's!
The next day I got to spend more time with Jen's family as they all came over her house for the evening. She keeps tellin me her family is crazy but I think she is too self concious about alot of things because I think her family is pretty neat and pretty funny.
Jen also came with me on Sunday to Church at the Redeemer in Cortland. She said it has been almost half a year since she has been to church. She loved it there. She is always being discerning and so she asked me to clarify somethings she thought she herd like when we had communion she had thought by what the pastor said, she thought that he meant the the bread and juice became the literal body and blood of Christ which she misunderstood just a little.
She also kind of doesnt like how people pray as unworthy when we are now children of God, loved by Him. but i simply explained its not always the case. Granted I find that alot of her concerns come from her dislike of her previous Church within the Dutch Reformed tradition. Granted alot of the things within her specific Chruch are not always the case everywhere and the same goes vice versa. But it is a shame that she is so hesitant to many things within the Reformed tradition because how much it had been skewed within her previous Church.
Jen is one of those believers who stresses the relationship with God while I am the kind that enjoys the relationship with God but it flows from the knowledge of what God has given me in His word through doctrine. She says Christianity is not religion but relationship while I say Christianity is Gospel and not Law. She stresses the heart in which comes the knowledge and I stress the Head where knowledge is proccessed and finds its path to the heart to become exhalted.
Sort of a small dilema but it does not make me love her anyless! She understands many of the same things I do but from a different source and so I praise God for that! I care about her alot and she cares about me and feels comfortable with me, and I see us growing more and more together in Christ. Jen is an amazing girl and I find it crazy that she had been right infront of me for about a decade. Praise God for putting her in my life!
The next day I got to spend more time with Jen's family as they all came over her house for the evening. She keeps tellin me her family is crazy but I think she is too self concious about alot of things because I think her family is pretty neat and pretty funny.
Jen also came with me on Sunday to Church at the Redeemer in Cortland. She said it has been almost half a year since she has been to church. She loved it there. She is always being discerning and so she asked me to clarify somethings she thought she herd like when we had communion she had thought by what the pastor said, she thought that he meant the the bread and juice became the literal body and blood of Christ which she misunderstood just a little.
She also kind of doesnt like how people pray as unworthy when we are now children of God, loved by Him. but i simply explained its not always the case. Granted I find that alot of her concerns come from her dislike of her previous Church within the Dutch Reformed tradition. Granted alot of the things within her specific Chruch are not always the case everywhere and the same goes vice versa. But it is a shame that she is so hesitant to many things within the Reformed tradition because how much it had been skewed within her previous Church.
Jen is one of those believers who stresses the relationship with God while I am the kind that enjoys the relationship with God but it flows from the knowledge of what God has given me in His word through doctrine. She says Christianity is not religion but relationship while I say Christianity is Gospel and not Law. She stresses the heart in which comes the knowledge and I stress the Head where knowledge is proccessed and finds its path to the heart to become exhalted.
Sort of a small dilema but it does not make me love her anyless! She understands many of the same things I do but from a different source and so I praise God for that! I care about her alot and she cares about me and feels comfortable with me, and I see us growing more and more together in Christ. Jen is an amazing girl and I find it crazy that she had been right infront of me for about a decade. Praise God for putting her in my life!
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