To: mom4melody
This should be a splash of ice cold water on your face!
We as Christians are supposed to be wise as serpents and gentle as lambs.
There may come a point when it will be best for you to get off the log and stop trying to have a discussion with the tar baby!
Remember Brear Rabbit and Brear Bear? That was a wise story 50 years ago when Disney produced it for Uncle Reamus...and it is just as appropriate now, for you . From what you have said , I advise cutting your losses and getting out. We will never be able to change the world, this appears more worldly than spiritual. Do you need to keep going back to the trash? Is it God's intention that you force yourself to "fellowship" with scum? Better to gather at your home and open the Bible than to be associated with obvious corruption. After you find out if these accusations are true or false ...then what? What will it change? We are obliged to be responsible for our own salvation, and our own lives. Will you also send the moral police out to investigate all the Catholic priest allegations of pedophilia? Jesus told the rich man to let the dead burry the dead! Seek His Wisdom & seek a faithful congeregation of true christians. Even rats flee the sinking ship!
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02/07/2004 1:39:16 PM PST by
Jack Armstrong
(a Post Modern America adrift in the Dark)
To: Jack Armstrong
'Short story...we left the church.'
J.A., did you miss the part where she said they [ALREADY] left the church?
To: Jack Armstrong
We left the church 3 years ago. My concern is for potential victims...if this a school or business he would have been fired long ago. I keep remembering the statement bout what happens when good men do nothing...evil prevails. As far as the church elders and the state brass, they can rot. I have to agree with this statement I found on the web:
"When good men do nothing, evil triumphs. Evil, sin and sinful men must be opposed. God commands those who are good, not just to avoid evil but actively oppose it.
Christians are to not only to "have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but (also) reprove them" (Eph. 5:11). Those who do nothing about sin and evil, help the sin and evil to prevail. One who is silent when there are those around him in sin becomes a partaker with them (Eph. 5:7)".
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