Posted on 07/13/2017 4:54:06 PM PDT by unlearner
Reading people’s comments online is an interesting and sometimes troubling study in human nature. And reading comments by professing Christians on Christian sites (as well as other sites) can be a discouraging study in applied theology.
The immediate, shoot-from-the-hip nature of comments on websites and social media is what can often make them minimally helpful or even destructive. Comments can easily be careless. That’s why we must heed Jesus’s warning: “on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak” (Matthew 12:36). This caution makes commenting serious business to God.
How Should We Comment?
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This is excellent, thanks for posting it.
And thanks for my new tagline.
What are you peeved at? Christians giving their personal opinions or quoting Scripture as absolute authority for their views?
In some circles, “Hey, Jesus loves you!” is considered offensive - even by some professing “Christians”.
Quite possibly the best post I’ve read on Free Republic. Thank you! As a Catholic, this has been one of my top issues for years in the confessional and it’s proof also that Confession actually works, as although I’m no saint, I’ve dropped off of several commentary sites to date.
Again, great article!
Excellent. I shared it on my Facebook page.
Marker for later re-reading and contemplation.
I know I have posted much that I deserve judgment for, but my tagline has kept me from posting literally hundreds of messages that I desperately wanted to, God be praised.
I’ve no excuse.
“What are you peeved at? Christians giving their personal opinions or quoting Scripture as absolute authority for their views?”
Well, only in the sense that the person you are describing is me. I’m ALWAYS doing that. And I don’t apologize for it.
But I have come to realize that I have been very quick to raise the loudness of the debate. So, if I am “peeved” it is is with myself. No one else. I’m working on it.
And the article seemed helpful to me, so I shared it.
That’s awesome. It’s good to take a bold stand because it forces us to be consistent with our professed beliefs.
When moved to comment, comment as moved. There is no point in having faith and not acted upon It.
Forty years ago when I was a new Christian an assistant pastor gave a half-hour presentation on Ephesians 4:29, which has tempered my online (and offline) conversation ever since. I was looking for and glad to find it in the article.
I'm reminded of Lincoln's angry letter to one of his errant Civil War generals: after writing it he put it in a drawer for a couple of days while he cooled off. Ultimately, he tore it up.
Finally, in our future eternal home this won't be such a problem!
Honestly.
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