That’s the type of conservative we’re trying to get rid of.I think I understand what you mean. I would agree that unless a faith/religion actively campaigns, it will not expand, and might disappear.
I think what I was trying to say is that in order to be successful at telling others what to do, ONE MUST MASTER HIMSELF.
I have a difficult time with someone who demonstrates they have no control trying to teach others how to follow the Bible.
The only guy I know who mastered himself, was this one.
And everyone gets the same test. I think that is the real point of the story in the Bible.
“I think I understand what you mean. I would agree that unless a faith/religion actively campaigns, it will not expand, and might disappear.”
You do not understand what I mean if you speak of my intentions as merely a “campaign” to extend a movement. I do not even hold that if man fails, that God will fail. It is God, after all, who is in charge.
This is about the salvation of souls by the unmerited grace of God, available for all those who confess the Lord Jesus Christ. This is about a spiritual regeneration, a new life, which no one can truly understand until God has done it in them.
“I think what I was trying to say is that in order to be successful at telling others what to do, ONE MUST MASTER HIMSELF.”
Paul, who described himself as a wicked man, was quite pleased whenever the Gospel of Christ was preached at all:
Php 1:18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
Not that he wasn’t concerned about poor ministers, of course... but, nevertheless, if perfection is required before preaching, then no one would ever preach at all.
Rom_3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Your position simply does not exist in the scripture. To attempt to dissuade Gospel preaching is, rather, a great crime against man and rebellion against God.
“The only guy I know who mastered himself, was this one.”
And He is the one who commanded us fallible folks to preach the Gospel. Try again.