Great interview Skip – you need your own spot on there!
Suzanne
I agree with Pam, great interview. Your candor inspired — no, more accurately provoked — me to undertake some deep introspection. Thanks for being so straightforward when you speak. Wishing you all well at VB tonight. Wish we could have been there.
Amanda Youngblood
I loved listening to this (and not just because of the subject matter). 🙂 Skip, you are so well spoken! You know, I’m really thankful that my comment and this community’s outpouring can touch more and more people. It’s amazing how God uses something like a cry from the heart, spoken in pain and frustration, to heal and challenge and teach. The woman’s comment about not wanting to be a “complainer” is very valid, and I think she made a good point about why we struggle to express our situations, fears, hurts, etc. I also liked your comment about Ruth and Boaz and becoming the answer that you pray for someone else. At God’s Table is such an incredible example of what a community can and should be.
Thank you so much for your transparency, honesty, and willingness to share your heart. Great interview!
Michael Stanley
Yes, well done Skip. The words you write and the words you speak match perfectly. One can hear the compassion, love, humility and a servant’s heart in your voice. And your deeds match as well. Having said that, please quit beating yourself up so much. It deprives Elohim the glory for the work He has, and is doing in you, and makes some of us think we might need to search for our discarded instruments of flagellation to keep up. I have enough wounds and scars, both self inflicted and from others; it is time to heal. Lead us on that path as well. Shalom, Michael
Brett T
My wife and I loved this! Especially the dialogue about prayer chains and our cheerful responsibility to actually the BE THE ONE to fulfill the prayer request :-).
Alicia
I enjoyed listening to your interview, Skip. Your honesty and candor is one of the reasons I frequent this site and your teachings more than any other. The bit about the purpose of Torah being about destroying the flesh… ouch! Something I needed to hear. I have felt “stuck” lately on this journey and I have found myself getting frustrated with God for not telling me exactly what to do next and making it easy for me to do it. But I am realizing that there are parts of “the flesh” that I’m reluctant to crucify and I’ll remain stuck until I do. It is encouraging to hear that struggling with God is just part and parcel of real relationship with Him. The old comfort of having it all wrapped up in a neat package and feeling nothing but warm fuzzies with God calls to me sometimes. But that put ME at the center of my relationship with God. Having realigned my perspective to put HIM in the center has been exhilarating, confusing, frustrating, bewildering, humbling, terrifying, eye-opening… it’s real relationship. As challenging and confrontational as it is, I see no way to go back and be satisfied with the “milk” now that I am experiencing the solid food.
I have appreciated being invited along with you and this community on this journey. I can’t say that enough.
Great interview Skip – you need your own spot on there!
I agree with Pam, great interview. Your candor inspired — no, more accurately provoked — me to undertake some deep introspection. Thanks for being so straightforward when you speak. Wishing you all well at VB tonight. Wish we could have been there.
I loved listening to this (and not just because of the subject matter). 🙂 Skip, you are so well spoken! You know, I’m really thankful that my comment and this community’s outpouring can touch more and more people. It’s amazing how God uses something like a cry from the heart, spoken in pain and frustration, to heal and challenge and teach. The woman’s comment about not wanting to be a “complainer” is very valid, and I think she made a good point about why we struggle to express our situations, fears, hurts, etc. I also liked your comment about Ruth and Boaz and becoming the answer that you pray for someone else. At God’s Table is such an incredible example of what a community can and should be.
Thank you so much for your transparency, honesty, and willingness to share your heart. Great interview!
Yes, well done Skip. The words you write and the words you speak match perfectly. One can hear the compassion, love, humility and a servant’s heart in your voice. And your deeds match as well. Having said that, please quit beating yourself up so much. It deprives Elohim the glory for the work He has, and is doing in you, and makes some of us think we might need to search for our discarded instruments of flagellation to keep up. I have enough wounds and scars, both self inflicted and from others; it is time to heal. Lead us on that path as well. Shalom, Michael
My wife and I loved this! Especially the dialogue about prayer chains and our cheerful responsibility to actually the BE THE ONE to fulfill the prayer request :-).
I enjoyed listening to your interview, Skip. Your honesty and candor is one of the reasons I frequent this site and your teachings more than any other. The bit about the purpose of Torah being about destroying the flesh… ouch! Something I needed to hear. I have felt “stuck” lately on this journey and I have found myself getting frustrated with God for not telling me exactly what to do next and making it easy for me to do it. But I am realizing that there are parts of “the flesh” that I’m reluctant to crucify and I’ll remain stuck until I do. It is encouraging to hear that struggling with God is just part and parcel of real relationship with Him. The old comfort of having it all wrapped up in a neat package and feeling nothing but warm fuzzies with God calls to me sometimes. But that put ME at the center of my relationship with God. Having realigned my perspective to put HIM in the center has been exhilarating, confusing, frustrating, bewildering, humbling, terrifying, eye-opening… it’s real relationship. As challenging and confrontational as it is, I see no way to go back and be satisfied with the “milk” now that I am experiencing the solid food.
I have appreciated being invited along with you and this community on this journey. I can’t say that enough.
I think you provided us with a great insight. It is a REAL relationship, and in real relationships there is a lot of tug of war