Welcome to Gaia! ::

I agree with most of your points, accept that I cannot consider preaching a form of prophecy. Prophecy is a something brought to a person by the Holy spirit that predicts the future or speaks of things that the one who is speaking has no (human) way of knowing what they are really talking about. While I think that a person can prophesy while preaching, I don't think that the terms can be used interchangeably.

otherwise, I don't know what to tell you. From where I'm standing we both have pretty solid points. I don't think that this is a debate that is key for salvation, so I'm comfortable with a stalemate. Praise be to God that all things will be made clear, all questions laid to rest at the end of days. ^_^

Well, I have to say dinner with my parents went by smoothly. The food wasn't the best, but we all got along. However, today I went over to drop off something and my Dad gave me a whole lecture and said he's concerned because I haven't been going to church, and told me not every church is perfect, asked me if I was attending another church, and he kept saying that I have a misconception about the church, and I said that I always had so many unanswered questions at that church and I never had a firm foundation, and it probably made him upset when I said I learned more from my husband in 20 minutes than I did from that church in 20 years. He is fighting to get me back. He was saying that he'll plan a Bible study so me and my husband will go over to their house and clear up these "miconceptions", but I'm more firm in my faith now and am beginning to see through the haze of that church that never made sense to me. I don't know whether to try and avoid it, or take the bullet and go over there for a Bible study. They're probably just going to try to turn me to their doctrine by hitting every sensitive subject. I know it. I just don't know what to do because it has obviously caused problems with my parents.