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To: Conservative til I die

"God is not there just when its convenient to you"

Wrong. God's hours are 24/7, 365/eternity.


113 posted on 12/07/2005 4:59:34 AM PST by Rebelbase (Food stamps, section-8, State paid Child support, etc. pay more than the min. wage.)
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To: Rebelbase



Yes God is there 24/7 unto eternity (praise the Lord),

but the onus is:

Are we there for God? a lot of us won't give him an hour a week.

And when churches encourage this behavior, we have the danger of being like the church at Sardis:

2: Awake, and strengthen what remains and is on the point of death, for I have not found your works perfect in the sight of my God.
3: Remember then what you received and heard; keep that, and repent. If you will not awake, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come upon you.
4: Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
5: He who conquers shall be clad thus in white garments, and I will not blot his name out of the book of life; I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

or worse, being like the church at Laodicea:

14: "And to the angel of the church in La-odice'a write: `The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.
15: "`I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot!
16: So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.
17: For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.

It is truly a scandal when a church decides that Sunday is inconvenient.


115 posted on 12/07/2005 5:26:28 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Rebelbase
Wrong. God's hours are 24/7, 365/eternity.

So why have church services at all, then? It seems people only bust out the "Where two are gathered are my name..." excuse when they're the ones taking off from Church.
116 posted on 12/07/2005 5:37:16 AM PST by Conservative til I die
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