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To: ItsOurTimeNow
You have your methods, others have theirs. You are not automatically right, nor are they.

And YOUR opinion of blasphemy is merely your opinion.

Missing a soul because of lack of imagination on how a particular person might be given the good news is a shame.

You do it your way and I wish you sucess, and I won't call it blasphemy. You should do the same to other true Christians who are trying new ways to reach people.

21 posted on 05/17/2004 7:37:18 AM PDT by Protagoras (When they asked me what I thought of freedom in America,,, I said I thought it would be a good idea.)
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To: Protagoras
Missing a soul because of lack of imagination on how a particular person might be given the good news is a shame.

You have hit the problem nail on the head, without knowing it. The fact is that nobody goes to hell because you and I weren't creative enough to persuade them. If that were true then people in hell would rightly be saying that they were there simply because of yours and mine shortcomings. Which simply is not true if you read the bible.

Salvation is not up to us. It's between God and the individual. Our task is to tell. What we're talking about is how we tell the good news.

26 posted on 05/17/2004 7:41:33 AM PDT by kjam22
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To: Protagoras
Missing a soul because of lack of imagination on how a particular person might be given the good news is a shame.

I agree, but beware of crossing lines you never meant to cross. That's my point. God is holy and He is not pleased with sinful worship. What I see in churches these days is exactly that. They are not influencing the world creatively. The world is influencing them. It is desensitizing them, so much so that they are not even bothered by language and nudity. No. You will hear them criticize fellow Christians for being too "pure" before you will hear them criticize sin. At a church near me -- I call it First Church of the Holy Cinema -- they went to see Along Came Polly for a wednesday night church service (the youth group). They had month after month of lessons based on The Matrix, Signs, and some other movies. These people are obsessed with movies. But they issued warnings about The Passion and its violence, Ryan Dobson's book was criticized as being "too anti-culture," etc...

Jesus said to "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If a man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in Him....for all that is in the world, the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh... these are not from the Father but from the World....and the World is fading away...but whoever keeps doing the will of God will live forever." We are also told to let our minds dwell on "whatever is true, whatever is right....." God is holy. He wants us to pursue holiness, not entertain ourselves to death.

56 posted on 05/17/2004 8:00:03 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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