Posted on 05/19/2014 5:40:31 AM PDT by Gamecock
I don't attend any weddings.
Not even mine.
Check out the muscular statements of Christian confession by Dr. Maryam Ibrahim, the Somali woman who has been sentenced to 100 lashes and then hanging because the Muslim courts accuse her of adultery and apostasy. Adultery because they do not recognize her marriage to a Christian man and apostasy because they accuse her of converting to Christianity, when actually she was raised by her Christian mother as a Christian after her Muslim father deserted the family when she was six.
She has a two year old son and is eight months pregnant, giving her ample excuse to renounce Jesus for “the sake of the children.” Instead, she is standing firm in the faith. Not all Christians today are the weaklings we find in the US and Europe.
By the way, have you prayed for this Christian woman today and all those who are suffering for Christ around the world? When our turn comes, we will want others to pray for us. “Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.” (Revelation 2:10)
That must simplify things :o)
But that is showing your love, unless you act out of a spirit of hatred, because it is speaking, as Paul put it, ἀληθεύοντες ἐν ἀγάπῃ, the truth in love.
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Those civil weddings are evil! < /sarc >
Bingo.
In America we worry that someone doesn’t like us. That the world sneers at us.
No wonder when you look at what is being preached in modern American churches.
The falling away will be great.
Good for you!
> theological discussions don’t change people’s minds.
Seriously? Not all of us are that closed-minded.
You miss my point. Theological discussions are more about chest pounding than they are about actual discussion. They are ego driven rants delivered without love. Ask any pastor about the usefulness of theological discussion with their congregation. It’s more of a dividing than a unifying factor.
I left the Episcopal Church because I could no longer tolerate the contempt for true Christianity it had come to espouse. However, my mother still considers herself a member of the TEC, so her funeral will be held at an Episcopal Church and I will not say anything untoward to the priest or his female deacon.
That will be the last time I cross the threshhold of a TEC building.
Me neither.
My cousin dumped her husband for some other guy who knocked her up. I said the batteries in the clock we gave her for the first wedding were still good and I wasn’t going.
To my knowledge, I don’t even know any homosexuals.
thanks for this post. this is useful. i can’t wait for the promised followup article.
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post Christian? this seems more a blog hit troll.
reality says otherwise. Don’t confuse NYC/LA hedonism with reality.
My wife grew up in TEC and has come to abhore it. Her parents are still members. The things they tell us about their churchnake it sound more like a social club than a hospital for sinners.
To make a long story short, they all agreed to my wishes and we had a pleasant Thanksgiving. Lo and behold, about a year later, they got married and were "born again". Their own children started to question their relationship and put pressure on their own parents. Now they are devout Christians that participate in all church activities and feed the poor on Thanksgiving and Christmas, the father is a deacon in his church and my niece teaches Sunday School. Could my "standing my ground" have caused such a thing as this? I don't know, but I'm convinced that by staying firm, God blessed me and them. The rest of the arguing members now seem to feel as I do for some reason.
Just by rejecting the traditions of men makes a statement to all that watch. Is it so bad to be known as the religious zealot that is a stick in the mud for Christ? My relationship is with Christ. The Word tells us we must "hate" our mother and father, our sons and daughters. Does it really mean "hate"? No, it just means Jesus comes first. You can't be double minded and follow Christ. You cannot have two masters. You will love the one and hate the other. For those that say "I don't know any homosexuals", #1,....that a lie, and #2 at some point you will have a situation that will cross your beliefs and the world. This poster is just trying to show you what Scripture says you should do if you value your relationship with God. There is no need to be hateful, but you should remain firm. It will undoubtedly be an opportunity to discuss what Jesus wants for our lives in the area of love and the sanctity of marriage.
If the world loves you, your not doing it right.
While in my first tour of duty in the AF, I spent a lot of time with two of the men in my team. One was an atheist and one a homosexual.
After I left, quite a few years later, one of them contacted me with news. He had become a Christian and the other had given up the homosexual lifestyle and found a wife.
Both of them wanted to contact me because they had given me a load of **** for four years, and I did not shift my stance. If I had wavered, their souls might be on my hands.
Ping to read later
Damn near everybody by the way it reads.
Jesus made it clear that we are to follow Him FIRST! If you love your child, would you really allow them to fornicate or experiment with Satan's toys just because you can't say no? All children WANT limits. It shows that you love them and care for them. When no one says NO!, they will just put the pedal to the metal and corkscrew into the first mountain available.
Christians have been conditioned over the years to "not judge" lest ye be judged. That just means we can't judge a soul, but we are to judge sin and flee from it! When a Christian sees open sin, he/she should point it out. We should be able to give the reason it isn't an act of love to allow a person to harm themselves. There are so few people that actually read and practice the Bible today, "real" Christians are kicked to the curb and the world is spinning into the abyss. For me, the reason America has sunk to the level it has is we are obsessed with all the wrong reasons to vote when we should be looking to vote in the most Bible believing Christians we can. Even the Republicans are trying to shut us out by not emphasizing social issues. IMO, if we elected Christians, the other problems would take care of themselves. As in the Bible, when Israel had a bad king, slavery and ruin followed. A Godly king brought blessing and plenty. If you have a chance to see the DVD on Isaiah 9-10 prophesy, do it. It pretty much explains what we have done to ourselves and how are too stiff necked to repent and bring revival to the land. We will have to be crushed under God's punishment to bend out knee to God. These principles are universal from your relationship to your family and friends and to your country and the world. 911 happened in 2001. Sept 2008 was seven years later and the beginning of the economic crisis. Sept 2015 is seven years later. If we haven't repented yet, what will the next "crisis" be? We have had plenty of time, we just haven't. I would imagine Iran will have a nuke or 2 by then. I wonder where they will test them? Is a nuke attack enough to bring us back to God? I fear we will see. Is killing our babies and marrying sodomites that important? Leviticus 18:22 tells us what God will do to a country that accepts sodomy. Is abortion the same as sacrificing to Molech? I don't want to find out. If the church would raise awareness of these things, perhaps we could repent in time. Most churches don't even preach against sodomy anymore. Some have gay deacons and others say why preach to the choir?
Well, because the choir needs to know what God thinks of it, that's why.
That is a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing!
Sola Deo Gloria!
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