{"id":299,"date":"2007-03-27T18:47:36","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T22:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hippiemommy.com\/2007\/03\/27\/i-should-be-a-little-more-open-minded-to-other-christians\/"},"modified":"2007-03-27T18:47:36","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T22:47:36","slug":"i-should-be-a-little-more-open-minded-to-other-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hippiemommy.com\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"I should be a little more open-minded to other Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=hippiemommy-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=0966910710&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had some good food for thought today.<\/p>\n<p>I took the kids to a drop-in Kindergarten class for homeschoolers (which they loved, btw) and while I was sitting there I started browsing through their lending library.\u00c2\u00a0 I saw that they had Teri Maxwell&#8217;s Homeschooling with a Meek and Quiet Spirit, so I decided to grab it and check it out.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a new mom, I had looked at the Maxwell&#8217;s site.\u00c2\u00a0 I was really turned off by their forums.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty sure they either took their forums down or made them non-public.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever they did, they&#8217;re not there anymore.\u00c2\u00a0 The advice that I saw on the forums was very punitive and certainly deep on the end of wife-only submission.\u00c2\u00a0 They link to the Pearls and suggest their books, which is enough to make me run away screaming any day.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of their articles, including one entitled &#8220;A Trip to the Woodshed&#8221; make me uncomfortable enough that I decided that I didn&#8217;t want to support their ministry by buying books.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, there have been quite a few discussions on GCM about their other book, Managers of Their Homes (AKA &#8220;MOTH&#8221;), and a lot of moms have been blessed by it.\u00c2\u00a0 They have another book called Managers of Their Chores (&#8220;MOTC&#8221;) which has also blessed several women on GCM.\u00c2\u00a0 I highly respect these women, and they said that they found it relatively easy to eat the meat and throw out the bones.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the latter position, I decided to skim Homeschooling with a Meek and Quiet Spirit, and I&#8217;m really glad that I did.\u00c2\u00a0 Did I agree with all of it?\u00c2\u00a0 Absolutely not.\u00c2\u00a0 However, several of the sections were wonderful reminders and fit in well with my grace-based and gentle style of teaching and disciplining my children.\u00c2\u00a0 I particularly liked some of the things that Mrs. Maxwell had to say about organization and time management, which is clearly one of her strengths.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m assuming that&#8217;s why she&#8217;s known for MOTH and MOTC.\u00c2\u00a0 I can see how some of the moms at GCM were blessed by her ministry.<\/p>\n<p>This has led me to think a lot today about the ministries that I choose not to support.\u00c2\u00a0 I still don&#8217;t think I want to support the Maxwell&#8217;s ministry, because I don&#8217;t believe in at least half of it.\u00c2\u00a0 Despite that, I gained some knowledge today and God has already used some of it to stretch me as a wife and a mother.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m wondering where the balance is though.\u00c2\u00a0 I have a feeling that I&#8217;ll be pondering it for the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>Let me also say, and say clearly, that I have read books by the Pearls and Ezzo just so that I could be educated on what I&#8217;m against, and they icked me out to no end.\u00c2\u00a0 I gained nothing from those books, except frustration and a wish that I could write the authors back to point out all of their logical flaws.\u00c2\u00a0 Those books were all bones &#8211; bones and gristle.\u00c2\u00a0 I am certainly NOT trying to say that any book written by a Christian is worth putting into your mind.\u00c2\u00a0 I do think that there are probably some more people on the fringe who could teach me a thing or two.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.still thinking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had some good food for thought today. 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