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To: ItsOurTimeNow; xzins; blue-duncan
I read somewhere that the backslider rates for this "seeker-friendly" phenomena are pretty substantial

So what?

I don't suppose you've ever backslidden, huh?

I'd have to say that in my experience 100% of all Christians backslide in one way or the other.

It is our job to bring people to where they can receive the truth. If they receive it, it is God's job to see them through. And he will. Whether they backslide or not. Or don't you believe that?

418 posted on 01/12/2006 6:44:56 AM PST by P-Marlowe
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To: P-Marlowe

there's a difference between the backslider and the Christian who still sins.

The backslider was never saved to begin with - the backslider is the seed that was choked out by the thorns, and the seed that was thrown by the road.

Every saved Christian sins, but our salvation has produced in us a Godly desire to repent and to seek the truth of the word of God. To hunger and thirst for righteousness. Laziness in pursuing the things of God is disobedience - which is why we're commanded to gather together as believers and stir each other up - support one another and carry each other's burdens.

It's true that all Christians grow at different rates, but the desire is always there regardless.

I've seen first-hand the emotional "experience" that whips up the non-believer into a frenzy. And then lets them down.

>>It is our job to bring people to where they can receive the truth.<<

And again you ignore the importance of the MEANS in which you bring them in. Holy means, and with the gospel truth, not worldly means that will not set them apart from the world.


421 posted on 01/12/2006 7:05:16 AM PST by ItsOurTimeNow ("Hail Him who saved you by His grace, and crown Him Lord of All")
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