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To: HiTech RedNeck

Having spent more time in Baptist churches than any other denomination, and a youth pastor in a Baptist church, and having more Baptist pastors as my friends than any other group, I just love tweaking my Baptist brethren about their idiosyncracies..... ;-)


49 posted on 07/31/2013 8:23:59 AM PDT by Arlis (.)
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To: Arlis

Well they certainly have their unique points. I’m worshiping now at a Baptist congregation (without being a formal member, at least yet) and these folks are visibly on fire for the Lord. It has bumped my own devotion up about 20 notches, and yet I don’t agree with all. But again I had a long background at a nondenominational bible church before that so I have some biblical perspective coming into it, and I can treat disagreements with far more grace than in the past... Christians here can be very good but they will not be perfect yet and it is a matter of wisdom what to let go and what to attempt to set right at a given time.

One thing I think might be a bit short of spiritually perceptive is the classic Baptist take on hell (”You wanna get outta there”) ... in the only account we have of an occupant, he never asked to get out, and it seems likely to me that such parties crammed full of hatred until sated, bereft of any love for God, wouldn’t ever entertain a notion of wanting to visit earth, let alone heaven. Those places would have too much of that grody love of God in them. I think Dives did not want his brothers there not as some noble desire of charity but because they’d be quarreling. (Even hell has its limits on how enraged it is willing to get. Ahh guys you are lazy!)


53 posted on 07/31/2013 8:35:09 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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