Comments on: Unmasking Our True Selves

By: Cat

Cat — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:29:12 +0000

I don’t think of them as masks; I think of them as facets. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with letting some people see more of my businesslike side, and some people see more of my emotional side, and some people see more of my downright bizarre side. There’s no point outright hiding any of it, because I can’t ever NOT be me, but it just makes sense that no one needs to see all of me at once.

But frankly, if all God requires of me is that I be in a relationship with him, he DOESN’T accept me for who I truly am. I had to leave Christianity before I felt safe and comfortable just being myself.

By: Agnes

Agnes — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:46:01 +0000

Thank you for this article, I feel as though you were writing to me. I am a Christian and belong to a great Christian family but deep inside I know that I am wearing a facade, even as I attend all the meetings bible studies, seminars, workshops etc. I am still not known by this family. I wish I would let them know of my loneliness, my struggle with sinful habits, that I am smiling on the outside but inside I am falling into pieces. What is one to do in a culture where we must be ‘doing fine’?. I feel like I am losing the battle sometimes but I am calling on the Lord. And thank you again. You seem to know where I am at….

By: arthur

arthur — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:44:02 +0000

re: unmasking our true self.

Great stuff. No theological and ‘mysterious’ ‘double-talk, no ‘moralizing’, no religious ‘do this on Friday, avoid this on Sunday’ here. No ’5yrs in seminary’, or ‘ninety-five prayer-group’ meetings’ needed here.

Nope,

Just straight-in and right-to-the-point of what REAL Salvation is all about. (crucifixion/death/dropping of false-self, rebirth of original true-self).

A simple and sincere request to Jesus, prayed from the heart and the process of re-surrection begins.

WELL DONE ! well done, for keeping it all so simple and so logical that (even) a ‘little-child’ can understand it.

Thanks, I’ll show this to some of my agnostic friends.

best wishes, Arthur.