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All About The Bossy Church Lady

(And About How God Snagged The Old Bag For His Team)

My name is Sandra Purdue and Christ Jesus is my Lord and Savior. I’m a Southern Baptist who believes that the entire Bible is the inspired Word of God; therefore, I believe every Word in the Bible, not just the good parts.

It seems like eons ago, surely before the hills were made, I had a pseudo-salvation experience. At the time, the seed that was sown in my heart could be compared to the seed that Jesus described as being sown along the path in Matthew 13:19. I allowed what was in my heart to be snatched away. Though I was a believer, I definitely wasn’t a follower of Christ. And all the questions that I had about the Lord went unanswered.

After that, I quit going to church and I lived my life my way; not God’s way. What I mean by that is that, rather than give all I had and all that I am, warts and all, over to Christ so that He could be King of my life, I tried to take care of everything myself. I put my own throne above God’s, which is a big mistake, a huge mistake. I constantly worked like a dog so I could make the money that I thought I needed so I could buy everything I wanted and thought I needed. My daughter and I barely knew each other. I was always stressed out.

On top of that, when I did want to return to the Lord (and this is the honest truth, cross my heart) because I was divorced, and because my life wasn't exemplary, I didn't go to church; I avoided God. I believed that my life had to be perfect before I went back to church.

On and on I went for years, working like a dog, coveting this and that, caring more about the things of this world than God, and hiding from God, until something happened one day that forever changed my life. A neck injury sent me to the doctor who ordered an MRI on my neck and a startling discovery was made: I have severe arthritis in my neck. I have advanced Degenerative Disk Disease in my neck, and it will never go away.

I was angry, bitter, and I felt like a MAJOR loser for a while. Wondering how this could possibly be happening to me, I went looking for the answers in my Bible. Remembering the questions that I had had about the Lord for several years by this time, I went looking for those answers too.

Needless to say, as I read my Bible, I compared myself to what God expected of me and what I saw wasn’t pretty. No one likes what he or she sees in the mirror of self-reflection, do they? When I realized that I wasn’t worthy to be a child of God, I was so terrified of being rejected by God, of being cast into hell for eternity after I die, that I gave everything I am and everything I had to the Lord right then. At long last, I began to allow God to dictate my life and it’s been nothing short of wonderful ever since.

Second to turning to the Lord for my Salvation, the arthritis has been the biggest blessing in my life. Without it, I never would have turned to God. (Don't get me wrong, I would love it if the arthritis went away!)

In the process of getting to know God, I learned that you don't have to be perfect to attend church. The belief that your life has to be perfect, that you have to be sinless to attend church is a flat out lie from the pit of hell itself. Christians go to church for fellowship, to learn about God, to hold each other accountable in Christ. No Christian is perfect, not even me, but I know that the work that Christ began in me will be completed in His time, not mine, not man's time.

Fast-forward to the present time. Armed with my passion about the Lord, my writing skills, and an active imagination, my goal is to reach out to other believers, new or otherwise, and encourage them in their walk with the Lord.

If you’d like to share your testimony and have me post it on this site, or on my website, feel free to use the contact button on this page or send it to me in the body of an email at: sandra @ bossychurchlady.net, (without the spaces in the address).

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