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To: Semi Civil Servant

"Accusatory"? Please post the text from the flyer so that I can be convinced.

FWIW, Christians are called to be "salt" and "light" in society. This may be that church's way of being salt and light. But I don't know, since I haven't seen the flyer you consider "accusatory."


91 posted on 10/20/2005 11:59:57 AM PDT by Theo
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To: Theo
"Accusatory"? Please post the text from the flyer so that I can be convinced.

An Ellettsville family whose home is decorated for Halloween contacted police after someone placed on its porch a flier that suggests Halloween praises the devil....

..."I started reading it, and I was very, very upset by it. I found it very accusatory and very threatening," Gully said.

The woman took it as accusatory. If my house was decorated to the nines with Halloween decorations and I got a a flier that equated celebrating Halloween with worshiping Satan, I would conclude I was either being accused of being a Satan worshiper or a deluded fool. The front of the flier says "In Praise of the Devil...?"

A little love goes a long way. There is plenty of opportunity to speak the truth in love. This sort of thing just makes people mad.

When my son was dying, it wasn't any one in our church who showed us love. No one from my son's youth group, which he attended faithfully, ever visited him in a year and a half. They didn't even bother to send him a get well card.

I don't consider my former church to be a bad one, just one that didn't have a clue on how to implement John 13:34,35 (like 99.99% of all churches). The person who showed my son and our family the most love was a non-Christian nurse who was possibly a lesbian.

Note to the House of Prayer (and all other churches): if you want to grow your church, stop circulating fliers and find a family with a dying child and love them in the name of Jesus.

286 posted on 10/20/2005 4:22:50 PM PDT by Semi Civil Servant
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