What I love about Danny and his wife is the general take on life and relationships that they have. The spirit of Christ seems to permeate what they say and do and believe. Not because they come off as perfect or "higher than" by any means. But mainly because they manage to have principles without condescension and ridicule.
I'd love for you to watch this teaching from Danny.
While watching it, it really made me want to cry. What I saw in it was the opportunity that Milestone Church missed. They missed the opportunity to create a safe place, an honoring place, a place where being "higher than" didn't mean looking down upon. A place where disagreeing, strong personalities, differences of theology, etc. didn't have to mean finger-pointing and blame and ostracizing.
And I don't mean just in our situation. I mean in hundreds of different situations where a greater understanding of humility and the principles of honoring others could've changed a biting attitude of superiority into a Christlike one.
As I listen to pastor Silk, I see how a church like Milestone might actually be able to help create the type of man they say they want in their church. The downside for misogynists, however, is the way that Danny looks at women. He doesn't seem to be able to look down upon them at all. In fact I believe he's recently written a book on empowering women in the church. That's really the irony. You can't elevate and honor one gender while disparaging the other. I truly hope that Pastor Little and the other folks at Milestone begin to learn this and apply it to their lives. I hope that they learn how to honor women and men alike.
I really recommend any of Pastor Silk's books as well as the many YouTube videos. His take on parenting is phenomenal. Not at all controlling and law-based as I often experienced from certain pastors at Milestone.
In other news, a friend recently told me that Derrick and Russell Ann Wilson have been moved to the McKinney, Texas church (be ye warned). She also mentioned that she feels that the attitude at Milestone is more graceful and that Pastor Jeff is keeping his tongue in check on the entire "wifely submission" issue and replacing it instead with "submission to the Holy Spirit."
You're welcome.
And, I wonder if I'm the only one who finds it ironic that our situation at Milestone, along with this blog, has caused positive change in someone's pastoring and life and yet he still doesn't feel the need to extend an apology or even a thanks of any sort.
I guess I'm supposed to just be grateful that I got out of there alive with my love for the Lord still intact. And I am.
