{"id":108,"date":"2007-05-07T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T17:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/?p=108"},"modified":"2007-05-07T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T17:17:10","slug":"release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/church\/release\/","title":{"rendered":"Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday at church (Encounter<\/a>), Brian started a new series called “release” about letting go of pain, anger, bitterness, etc and giving it up to God. He is using the new Spiderman 3 movie as an illustration…it shows how bitterness or anger can overtake you and consume your thoughts and actions. It was a very good message and can’t wait for future weeks messages. After the message, Brian invited us up to get a “pain card” and drop it on the table up front that had a crown of thorns on it….showing our release of the pain and us giving it up to Christ. I was thinking, I don’t have any bitterness, anger or pain towards anyone…I guess that’s a good thing, no one has hurt me. But as I continued to think about it, I thought, it’s not that no one has hurt me before, it’s that I have never let anyone hurt me before. I never let people get close enough to hurt me or cause me pain. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want it, but if I don’t ever let people get close enough to me, is that just as bad? Which one is worse — letting people in and actually getting to know you with the possibility of getting hurt or not letting people in and never getting hurt? What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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