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To: SeekAndFind
Great article!

As a devout Christian and businessman, I ALWAYS adhere to an old rule when dealing with Christian-professing businesses and businessmen..."when they tell you they are Christians, grab onto and hold tight to your wallet."

The problem is not one of Christianity, but one of self-righteousness. While professing Christians may (in many cases) have been given salvation, they are still fully capable of evil and fully capable of ignorance of how evil and selfishness are at work in themselves.

The Lord may one day hold them blameless...but they unfortunately hold themselves blameless right now!

6 posted on 07/15/2012 6:14:30 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
"As a devout Christian and businessman, I ALWAYS adhere to an old rule when dealing with Christian-professing businesses and businessmen..."when they tell you they are Christians, grab onto and hold tight to your wallet."

Sadly I have come to the same conclusion. I had our house built by a "Christian" contractor 10 years ago who had a good reputation and had built several other houses in our neighborhood. When he found out I was a Christian it seems we hit it off and I felt confident he would do a quality job. We allowed him to do his job and left him alone to do it as much as possible. Unfortunately he saw that as an opportunity to cut corners and our house was not built to the same standards as the others he built for non-Christians. When we tried to get him to come back to correct mistakes he did shoddy work and it was obvious he was too busy. We now have a custom house built poorly with siding falling off. This has spoiled my view of any business that advertises as "Christian".

9 posted on 07/15/2012 6:42:19 AM PDT by strongbow
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To: RoosterRedux
" The problem is not one of Christianity, but one of self-righteousness. While professing Christians may (in many cases) have been given salvation, they are still fully capable of evil and fully capable of ignorance of how evil and selfishness are at work in themselves. The Lord may one day hold them blameless...but they unfortunately hold themselves blameless right now! "

Thank you. I just restrained myself from posting a couple of stories... (Not gonna change my tagline though.)

Just thank you for your post.

10 posted on 07/15/2012 6:44:55 AM PDT by OKSooner (Never take a "known safety risk" shooting with you even if he is an ordained minister.)
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