"Doing and being church" in a vulnerable, safe, open environment
My wife and I are looking to refinance our homestead, and add some home improvements. I decided to seek long term financing and take advantage of the favorable rate environment that is presently available. In considering that, I realized that I wanted to seek out a mortgage banker in front of whom I did not mind "financially undressing". Trusting someone with your personal finances is something to carefully consider before impulsively doing it. I chose the son of one of my very best friends, who has become a successful mortgage banker. I was praising his work to his step mother, and while doing so, and sharing the vulnerability insight...and how I did not want to "financially undress" before just anyone. Her response was insightful. "Isn't that how we should be with our brothers and sisters in the church, able to trust them with our spiritual and personal situations, able to be vulnerable with them with our challenges, sins, problems, even our insights?&quo