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To: ItsOurTimeNow
Direct contradiction to scripture.

Chapter and verse, please. You'll see that Jesus spoke to multitudes but only committed his deeper teaching for his disciples.

Sounds pretty lazy and luke-warm to me.

Sounds arrogant and inexperienced to me.

I have yet to meet a saved person who was content to hang out in kindergarten and sing songs all day.

Have you met any that never graduated for kindergarten? I have. They get saved, get excited and then fade away. But there are other parables that deal with that phenomemon.

Not everyone who is saved will always hunger and thirst for righteousness; some will be filled sooner than others and some will be filled for a while to again hunger for more.

221 posted on 11/22/2005 11:52:14 AM PST by Eagle Eye (There ought to be a law against excess legislation.)
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To: Eagle Eye

>>You'll see that Jesus spoke to multitudes but only committed his deeper teaching for his disciples<<

Because he knew his time was short - which is why he instructed his disciples to teach others. The Great Commission springs immediately to mind.

Paul's numerous letters all contain instruction to the individuals or churches to train, teach, grow, and exhort others in righteousness. Christianity is not for the idle. To start:

Luke 6:4, Matthew 13:52, 1 Peter 2:2, Hebrews 12:11, 2 Peter 3:18, Titus 2:11-13, 2Tim 3:16, 1 Cor 3:7, 1 Tim 4:7, and nearly the entire book of Ephesians.

Those who hear the word and accept it are the ones who produce fruit. The rest fall by the wayside.

>>They get saved, get excited and then fade away. But there are other parables that deal with that phenomemon.<<

And as the parable of the sower indicates, they were never truly regenerate in the first place.


234 posted on 11/22/2005 12:08:04 PM PST by ItsOurTimeNow (Aslan is on the move...)
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