zeezrom wrote:The point would be to help the church get one step closer to where they should be.
"Oh, what difference could you possibly make, Zee?"
haha,
Let me tell you a story about a boy walking along the beach. He noticed many starfishes lying on the sand...
As you know, the church doesn't work that way. Change comes, if at all, from the top down, through revelation, as it were. I've always thought people who wanted to change the church from within were fooling themselves.
Runtu wrote: I've always thought people who wanted to change the church from within were fooling themselves.
No, people who thought the church would change as a result of their efforts were fooling themselves.
People who want the church to change have hope. Sure, it is hope beyond hope but hey, it's hope. It would be like a poor, African orphan hoping to see higher standards of education, food, and water.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
I like what Runtu said. You need not explain yourself Zeez, doesn't have to be anybody's business but your own. You are in a much better place with the realizations you have had about the church. You go back stronger and armed with critical thinking. If anything, it will be a new adventure, and give you a similar view, but from a different angle.
zeezrom wrote:How do you think TBMs in our ward would react to our reason for coming back to church?
They wouldn't give a crap if you came back or not. And if you did come back, most would say hello and do their sunday thing. Really, zee, I don't think that you are on the ward's mind very much. They are most likely sad for you and your wife and kids but people have so many problems now on their plate that your situation is not a top priority.
I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world. Joseph Smith We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all…” Joseph Smith
why me wrote:They wouldn't give a crap if you came back or not. And if you did come back, most would say hello and do their sunday thing. Really, zee, I don't think that you are on the ward's mind very much. They are most likely sad for you and your wife and kids but people have so many problems now on their plate that your situation is not a top priority.
How would you know? Having been in leadership positions, I know that reactivating members is one of the top priorities of the leadership. When I go to church these days, which isn't often, I always get a whole bunch of strangers shaking my hand and calling me by my first name. There's only one reason they would know who I am, and it's not because I'm not on their minds very much. Zee has been in leadership, too, so he knows how it works.
My advice, Zee: do what you feel is right, and don't feel obligated to justify your decisions to anyone but God and you.