Wonder if Emily Rose's parent should have had local Baptist Pastor intervene?
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No, but a medical doctor should have.
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I would say that she should be happy he is going to church, and shouldn 't worry about it too much unless he starts harassing her or talking about getting back together.  \n\nAlthough the church is out of his way, maybe he just feels more comfortable there.\n\nIs this girl SURE that she's the reason he's going there?  If not, it's not fair to read more into it.\n\nWhy is it stressing her out?  If the relationship ended mututally and on good terms, there shouldn't be a problem.\n\nLet the boy go to church in peace unless he starts causing problems.
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No! they can't even have a brother who isn't a fundamentalist because my sister's "Praise the Lord's" and "washed in the blood of Jesus" stuff drives me round the twist ... I cannot bear to hear any more of it so we don't communicate any more.\nShe has learned it recently from church groups, it is all very American style and sounds ridiculous as I knew her before all of this obviously.\n\nIf she didn't lose her temper so dramatically when I ask her not to speak like that in my presence I wouldn't mind but she accuses me of attacking her religion and hating Jesus which is nonsense as I don't even acknowledge Jesus exists ...it's not possible to hate somthing that doesn't exist.
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Good thought. Better if it turns out to be Derek's. Then again, she slept with Mark so who knows! I like that twist though I really want her to be having sex with Alex. That would be great, then all three would think it was their kid.  I'll take her at her word though that she is sad whenever she has to tell a mother her baby is dead. She hasn't done that so far. This was something different. Of course they don't usually use a specialist to deliver a stillborne child. That was different.  But I like your way of thinking.
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They have been answered, just not the way you would have liked for them to have been. He always answers. I'm in the same position now and I thought why doesn't he hear me, why hasn't he answered my prayer. Then I realised he had. It was just that he felt at this time or maybe at no time in the future, that it was the right decision for me. However I am relentless in this prayer and will not give up. His time is not our time. That is so hard to come to terms with, that in a way he has said no. But a wise priest once told me don't ever forget that there is nothing he will not do for his mother, so pray to her for her support in your matter and ask her in her grace to pray to him with you and on your behalf. Between them any miracle can occur and any grace can be bestowed. Have faith. God bless. I will not forget you in my prayers tonight.
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We can't answer that for you.  Your primary concern should be your daughter, so concentrate on that.  You were a witness to the event, you need to make a judgement call.  The fact that you are having doubts about his character (wondering if he's a pedophile) make me think there must be more to this story.  If you seriously think this is possible, maybe you need to end the relationship. And if you choose not to, don't you dare leave your daughter alone with him!
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I suggest the school counciler or maybe someone in your church. The best thing that could happen would be if they did tell. What if this same person has moved on to another child now? And you can be the one to help that child. God Bless you and have mercy for what some jackass has put you through.
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I think your mom is a bad parent and you should tell her that. I also think that christians who beleive if you dont believe as they do go to hell will go to hell instead. I will tell you that the people that agree with your mom are heartless people with no compassion or Love just lip service to a dead Jew that doesnt care about them
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Honestly, that's a really good question. I hadn't thought of that.  Call a pastor and see what they have to say.
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No we shouldn't.  But unfortunately in the times we live in there is to much religious sway.  Look at the supreme court.  Luckily the ACLU is involved and the woman will recieve legal counsel and wont have to pay out the rear end.  Its also good that the media, well one at least, is picking this up.  I'm sure other will be outraged.  Her rights have certainly been trampled on.  Not only in the fact that the reasoning behind the case is a mess, but the fact they had a court hearing without giving her due notice and while she is out of state is illegal.  \n\nThis is messed up on so many levels, all my positive energy and thoughts go out to this woman.  I'm sure justice will be done for this woman as more than one of her rights have been trampled on.  The right people have gotten involved anyway.  This is dispicable.
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I believe that deep down inside, you know what is right for you to do.  I think you should forgive her even if she excepts it or not.  God knows your heart and the blood is no longer on your hands if you do all that you know to do.  I also think you should love and serve her in anyway possible to help her in her time of need.  The Bible speaks on loving in spite of or having the agape or the God kind of love, especial towards your parents (even if they have not been so good to you).  God will honor you obedience and your reward will be great in the end.
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Your church should already have guidelines of who should be allowed to be near the children. \n\nMy church has a background check done on all people that want to work with the children.  We also have teams of two workers per each class.  We try to have more women than men work with the children.\n\nAfter classes are done, it is the parents responsibility to keep an eye on their children.  We return their children directly to the parent and don't just let the children loose to roam the church grounds.\n\nWith rules and guidelines in place, a prison ministry should be fine.  Pedophiles are required to let the town they move to know about their background.  You can check your local listings.  They will have a picture of the person and the crime they have committed. \n\nAs a parent, I know there is always potential danger to my children.  Even at church.  The church is supposed to open it's arms to the world in love.  Not everyone that attends has Christ on their minds.
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Let's see here. She's stressed and she needs to know how to live her life and make wise decisions right? Also she's living with a man who is a mooch and to whom she is not married?\n\nIt sounds to me like she needs to turn to the living God of Heaven through faith in Jesus Christ and turn her life over to Him. That way she can have sound time tested principles to guide her decision making and receive supernatural assistance through prayer and the leading of God's Holy Spirit.\n\nWhether or not she does that, she ought to kick out the bum, tell her 16 year old that for the family's sake she is going to have to take on some additional responsibilities like baby sitting and go to school and get her certification.
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I was very much encouraged by my parents to find my own way, be my own person and for that I am most grateful to them. For a number of years as a youth, I attended an evangelical Sunday group and although I have what I think is a deep understanding of the christian faith, I never really bought into it. I am fairly well convinced that somebody who lived 2000 years ago died a violent death for denouncing the corruption of the religious, political and military leaders of the time and that those ideals gave rise to the christian faith. But therein lies the most contentious point - that this enlightened individual was telling us we don't need self-righteous big-wigs lording it over us, yet from this message a whole new breed of religious zealots were born, who proceeded to enslave minds with their twisted dogma.\n\nBrian (Life of - MP) was so right and probably remains the most accurate reconstruction of that moment of history - by a country mile.
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Julia A. J. Foote (1823-1900), the daughter of former slaves, was born in Schenectady, New York. Her parents were devout Christians, and she embraced their faith at an early age, joining the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church when she was fifteen years old, by which time she was living in Albany with her adopted family.\n\nMarriage in 1841 to a seafarer, George Foote, took eighteen-year-old Julia to Boston, where she joined this city's African Methodist Episcopal Zion church. Julia Foote's ever-increasing hunger for knowledge of the Holy was applauded; however, her insistence that God had called her to preach put a strain on her relationships with those who believed it absolutely inappropriate and downright wrong for a woman to be a preacher. Julia's parents did not support her call. Her husband did not support her call. Her pastor, Reverend Jeheiel C. Beman, not only did not think she should preach, but he also censured her for engaging in ministry in her home. \n\nConvinced that she had to answer to a higher power, Foote persevered, finding pulpits, homes, revival camps and other venues where her gifts of the Spirit were welcomed. Julia A. Foote preached up a storm: early on in New York, New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, and later, in Michigan, Ohio and Canada. Eventually, she settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where in 1879, she published her autobiography: A Brand Plucked From the Fire. \n\nWe do not know how or where this evangelist spent the 1880s and early 1890s, but we know that in 1894 Julia A. Foote became the A.M.E. Zion Church's first woman deacon. In 1900, shortly before her death, she became this denomination's second ordained female elder.
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Ty Mosler walked away from his management position at the Family Christian Bookstore in Asheville, N.C., after eight years because of a quandary he never thought he'd face: A change in the Christian store's operating hours meant Mr. Mosler would have to miss going to church at least half of the year.\n\nanymore Questions Ask Me!
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I'll settle for anyone who is genuine and real up in the pulpit and isn't like these professionals who always preach the wrong sermon. There they are talking on some topic while the church is burning down. The sermon should be, "Fire, fire everybody out," if you understand this metaphor. Instead they argue doctrine or joke or repeat sermon number 105. A woman with some sense just might be a welcome change. She just might tell the congregation that the church has lost its saltiness. My, wouldn't that be a revelation!