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To: CondoleezzaProtege
MarkBsnr, you actually don't see any strippers in the video.

Then perhaps I misunderstood the article. I don't normally watch YouTube, and even more normally not with descriptions such as strippers.

These godly women take the time to put together gift bags for strippers in order to share the love of Christ and preach the Gospel to them.

Umm, I googled up a couple of sites that said that good strippers can make a thousand dollars a night (tax free) just on site. Are gift bags enough?

No sin is unforgivable and we were no different in "level" of sinfulness from strippers. Without repentance and faith in Christ, we are just as lost and blind.

I take it that you are not Calvinist in any way.

24 posted on 12/23/2009 6:30:47 PM PST by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr

Let’s go over the first two letters of “TULIP”

T “Total Depravity” applies to every human being, not just strippers. You and I are both born totally depraved and God-hating.

U “Unconditional election” means that there are no “conditions” on which God predestines one person for salvation over another. Salvation is a free gift given to undeserving sinners. There is nothing any more “innately” good about a person God chooses in Christ for redemption over someone He allows to remain hardened:

“Yet, BEFORE the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” ~ Romans 9: 11-13

So there was nothing “better” about Jacob that made God love him. God simply chose him.

** God’s “elect” includes former liars, former homosexuals AND former strippers—not to mention all the sinners who have yet to hear the Gospel. God is continually calling for His elect from every corner of the globe and he uses believers to carry on that task. **

As Paul reminds us in his letter to the Ephesians, chapter 2:

“As for you, you WERE dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you USED TO live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. ALL of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. LIKE THE REST, WE were by nature objects of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.

And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast.” ~ Ephesians 2: 1-10


25 posted on 12/23/2009 6:49:56 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ("When I survey the wondrous cross...")
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