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It is a program that has a varied ancestry...but if your point is that this isn't a specifically Baptist thing, you would be correct.Originally posted by ExxonMobil:
"Walk to Emmaus": Isn't that a Methodist program?
I've been "pressured" by a relative to partake of this offering, but got the same answers when I wanted some info.My sister's church is going through this right now. Some of her friends went on a WTE weekend. They came back and told her how she really needed to go and experience this. When she asked for some details (like "why do I have to go alone, why can't I go with my husband?") she was told that everything would be made clear during the experience. She asked about who the speakers would be (or guides or whatever). The answer was the same. Each question that she asked received the same essential answer of "I can't tell you, for your own good."
Actually they have seperate weekends, men one weekend, women another. It's seperation of the sexes because they sleep in dorm type housing. Now do you really want to mix different sexes in a dorm, using the same bathroom and showers?My sister's church is going through this right now. Some of her friends went on a WTE weekend. They came back and told her how she really needed to go and experience this. When she asked for some details (like "why do I have to go alone, why can't I go with my husband?") she was told that everything would be made clear during the experience.
Could you explain this sentence a bit better? It might help me understand your point. What it sounds like is that if you hadn't gone on the weekend, you would have been unprepared for certain circumstances in your life. What was it about the weekend that made this only possible during the weekend?Originally posted by kate B...007:
Some of the things that have happened in my life since then I know I could not have handled if I hadn't gone to emmaus, what I learned about God and my relationship with Him there gave me strength to walk through.
Could you explain this sentence a bit better? It might help me understand your point. What it sounds like is that if you hadn't gone on the weekend, you would have been unprepared for certain circumstances in your life. What was it about the weekend that made this only possible during the weekend? </font>[/QUOTE]Jonathan, lets see if I can explain it more.Originally posted by Jonathan:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by kate B...007:
Some of the things that have happened in my life since then I know I could not have handled if I hadn't gone to emmaus, what I learned about God and my relationship with Him there gave me strength to walk through.
Could you explain this sentence a bit better? It might help me understand your point. What it sounds like is that if you hadn't gone on the weekend, you would have been unprepared for certain circumstances in your life. What was it about the weekend that made this only possible during the weekend? </font>[/QUOTE]Jonathan, lets see if I can explain it more.Originally posted by kate B...007:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Jonathan:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by kate B...007:
Some of the things that have happened in my life since then I know I could not have handled if I hadn't gone to emmaus, what I learned about God and my relationship with Him there gave me strength to walk through.
Mostly, but not exactly. They have a team called agape , and they leave these little things (I'll explain more later), all over the place, at the place setting on the dinner table, on the beds, at the tabel in the conference room. What tey are is little things other people have made, I've even made some before. Mostly little papers with a bible verse,and a little somethig glued on, like a bandage and the verse about God healing the broken hearted, and just little play on words for the object, but they are all over the place, not one or two but ten of them at a time, you are always reading scriptures about God's love and care, the agpae team brings ice water to the conference room(it was hot,and we were at a camp ground area, no air conditioning) and just a lot of little things that are meant to convey to you the love of God. Have you ever served someone with the only purpose of showing them God's love for them? I was completely over whelmed. On Sunday before we left we were given a bag full of letters written to us by family and friends, my pastor and other church people, they were what epoeple thougth of me and loved me and encouragemetn,I couldn't believe so many people cared about me, I even had one from my son.So basically, it wasn't Emmaus so much as the fact that you finally spent some extended time exclusively with God that changed your perspective. Is this correct?
Mostly, but not exactly. They have a team called agape , and they leave these little things (I'll explain more later), all over the place, at the place setting on the dinner table, on the beds, at the tabel in the conference room. What tey are is little things other people have made, I've even made some before. Mostly little papers with a bible verse,and a little somethig glued on, like a bandage and the verse about God healing the broken hearted, and just little play on words for the object, but they are all over the place, not one or two but ten of them at a time, you are always reading scriptures about God's love and care, the agpae team brings ice water to the conference room(it was hot,and we were at a camp ground area, no air conditioning) and just a lot of little things that are meant to convey to you the love of God. Have you ever served someone with the only purpose of showing them God's love for them? I was completely over whelmed. On Sunday before we left we were given a bag full of letters written to us by family and friends, my pastor and other church people, they were what epoeple thougth of me and loved me and encouragemetn,I couldn't believe so many people cared about me, I even had one from my son.Originally posted by kate B...007:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr /> So basically, it wasn't Emmaus so much as the fact that you finally spent some extended time exclusively with God that changed your perspective. Is this correct?