And this is why we pray for the lost sheep.
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Amen. Love the sinner. The poor man.
> And this is why we pray for the lost sheep.
Amen. Unto God be the Glory! So mote it be:
Non nobis Domine non nobis,
Sed nomini tuo da gloriam
Sed nomini tuo da gloriam.
*DieHard the Hunter*
At a class for our deacon candidates this afternoon, someone brought up Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's frightening defense of partial-birth abortion, wondering what good it could do to try to appeal to such a person's basic sense of right and wrong. After discussion, we reached the conclusion that even a person so obviously angry with God was not beyond the reach of His love. This story offers just one more example.
Amen to that! Even more than loving the sinner, also praying for their conversion, their repentance.
His silence about his infection with HIV and the quiet lifestyle he chose for the final years of his life have been a source of outrage to the homosexual community.
Outrage? This is their final line in their remarks about him - we liked him, but he outraged us? They expected him to what? Give up all privacy in illness? Become a 'symbol' for them? Would they have paid him any mind if his illness were a brain tumor or a stroke? These folks have sacrificed the people for the lifestyle and seek glory for it's ills rather than the special gift of each person.
Very interesting, thank you for posting this. He suffered not only from the sickness that caused his death, but from rejection by his circle of friends. But he had courage and suffered to the final triumph.
**And this is why we pray for the lost sheep.**
Absolutely. Christ came for the sick and the sinful. Those who are well do not need the physician, Christ.
God bless him for coming back to his faith.