Posted on 02/06/2016 4:55:29 AM PST by Kaslin
I don’t pay any attention to ads. If I had my way ads would be limited to 15 minutes per day and that includes political ads. Attack ads make only vote against the candidate who puts them out
And I would posit that the foremost modern audience for this exhortation is the church, the body of believers, they are believing, but they could believe a lot more than they already believe, they are shallow.
If this happens, salt and light will spill over into secular spheres and have a beneficial influence.
Sometimes I see we’ve tried to get Caesar to be our direct agents and that won’t work. The salt and light model works a lot better. Instead of asking teachers to bring God into schools, for instance... how about getting kids to do it. God really isn’t some quintessentially irascible old grump in the celestial regions, though a lot of grownups have styled Him in that fashion, more like themselves than like He really is. Kids who are on the groove with the character and power of Christ are so irrepressible with heaven’s optimism that a school full of them would not give up God even to an attack with a crow bar. And they themselves will be the witnesses.
What are you so mad about? I simply said that I strongly supported Ted when he ran for the Senate, but that he’s since broken the deal with me, due to his votes in congress.
He’s lost my trust because of that, among other things. Nothing more, nothing less.
Secondary issues will be.
Primary issues may not be. Issues like love and grace, things that our modern “liberals” walk off with because Christians are making such a pitiful, self-fulfilling prophecy showing of them.
Nobody should say never when it comes to forgiving Ted... note I said forgiving Ted not excusing Ted. Ted would do well to show he recognizes concern over these issues and is not just standing there as an ivory statue kind of like a Christian Buddha, but is willing to keep moving towards the good.
It’s man’s basic nature to be at his best during hard times and at his worst during good times. It requires discipline and character not to be ruined by too much prosperity and most people simply don’t have it. When we’re hungry and desperate, we’ll rediscover the traits that will restore our bounty and security until it inevitably leads again to our demise.
It paints a broader picture of our problems than most.
Excellent point
This is a very possible outcome.
A personal hypothetical observation I have made, is that if Barack Obama proved to be an excellent gun salesman, perhaps has he also proved to be an excellent prayer salesman?
I believe it logical. And God is always gracious to the prayerful attitude that turns back His way (theologically this is called repentance — and the important thing in the Christian model is that it does not look like the world’s model in which there is a probationary period, as God can see genuine movement of the heart and needs no other testimony as to what is in a man).
WOW!!!
Agreed. In my opinion, Ted should have gotten out in front of this thing when it first blew up. Unfortunately, he failed the leadership test when his first response was that no one in his campaign would be disciplined for it.
Also... what is called discipline and character, is in the end simply the properties of a focus on the Lord. To speak of a focus without them is like to speak of a focus with no focus.
Very well put.
It sure as hell isn’t Trump’s message when he embraces Pelosi Schumer and Reid and defends McConnell against Cruz!
Or says that Cruz wants people to die in the streets.
He might not have been able to think outside of the “punishment” box. But grace frequently does do that. It would have been at least equally credible to announce that he has exhorted his team to have a higher vision in the future, and takes personal ownership of the oversight. And nobody would have had to be punished except perhaps in a mutual swallowing of their prides.
What were the particular issues involved here?
One does not have to deal in one dimensional earthly friend/enmity lines in order to treat a particular issue of concern.
If one did, there would be no room for the biblical adage “Faithful are the wounds of a friend.”
And even the bible says let he who stands take heed lest he fall. It’s a matter of attitude, and attitudes can change to the good or to the ill.
Being headed for a fall doesn’t mean having to arrive there. But it means it is wise to take warning quickly.
Exactly
Great op-ed, yes?
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