By: Rev. Larry D. Ellis
These thoughts are a portion of my personal spiritual
discovery process as I have read, prayed, listened and discussed over my
first half-century lifetime. In our early years, we learn by trusting
those close to us. As we mature we question those values that we were
taught in our youth. As we grow up, we take on our own personal values.
These may be many of the first values and truths that we were taught.
These might be different, molded by our own reading of God's word, our
own view of who God is, our life experience and hopefully by the Holy
Spirit. I pray that these questions and my own responses to them will be
stimulating to your thinking, praying and discernment process. I welcome
your email dialogue with me on any of these issues.
How
does someone become a Christian?
When, Why
and How Do We Change the Words of Choral Music, Hymns and Liturgy to Use
Inclusive and Expansive Language?
What is
the role of women in the family and church today? Who is the final
authority in a marriage, the husband or the husband? Does God call women
to be pastors?