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To: Partisan Gunslinger

Anyhow. The concern about Mystery Babylon isn’t new. Martin Luther attempted to address the influences in place, and walking out to become a physically independent worship community was a plan B which he didn’t even envision when he complained about theological abuses.

But again. If you can do mystery better, please do. It looks as though, if reluctantly and imperfectly and in fits and starts, an evangelical influence is getting into the Roman Catholic church. Francis is even part of that, and I’d be very wary of just walking up some fleshly dynamite and setting it off. Better to try to fill in what is missing. Christ with His Love is the thing that keeps any church from going all to hell, and He needs to be respected. Evangelical churches are actually pretty lukewarm due to their scant-mystery policies. Be careful that the divine “ptui” does not go your way!

(Now having been called a bigot by a Catholic, I am about to get ostracized by everybody. No friends!)


73 posted on 01/11/2014 3:31:12 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
But again. If you can do mystery better, please do. It looks as though, if reluctantly and imperfectly and in fits and starts, an evangelical influence is getting into the Roman Catholic church. Francis is even part of that, and I’d be very wary of just walking up some fleshly dynamite and setting it off. Better to try to fill in what is missing. Christ with His Love is the thing that keeps any church from going all to hell, and He needs to be respected. Evangelical churches are actually pretty lukewarm due to their scant-mystery policies. Be careful that the divine “ptui” does not go your way!

Now is not the time to hide your candle under a bushel. The battle lines are being drawn, and the pope is drawing them. Time for people to pick a side and we have to be clear which side is which.

103 posted on 01/12/2014 3:00:47 AM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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