Posted on 07/28/2014 11:37:55 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis returned to the southern Italian city of Caserta on Monday for a private visit to the Pentecostal community known as the Evangelical Church of Reconciliation. The Pope first met the founder of the community, Pastor Giovanni Traettino, during his time as archbishop of Buenos Aires and over the past year he has met and received groups of Pentecostals at his Santa Marta residence here in the Vatican.
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When it's that way, then it is backwards.
First -- freedom.
Then one CAN work.
Clean the inside of the cup (only God can do that, really, we need be willing to let Him) then one can see to clean the outside, since we are living inside the little glass house cup.
It does not need to be complicated, nor too difficult.
It's very simple.
The Gospel is simple enough that even the fool or wayfaring stranger shall not err therein.
For you, I doubt I need add the OT scriptural reference for that last, though I do confess to having inserted the word "Gospel" into the paraphrase.
Am I now formally a heretic for having done that? Ha. I imagine that question could prompt some reaction out of more than few here, like saying I have always been one, but of course they won't spell out the precise reason why in any sort of fair & honest fashion -- unless being made subject to yet more of their own bigoted opinions is "fair".
If any of our FRomish friends would say so on this score, then I will take that as full excuse to go buy myself a bottle of champagne, and celebrate. Aw heck, Mary. Drinks are on the house...
I have not drank much of any of that fizz-naturally(?) carbonated beverage for some years now that I recall.
I put the question mark in there, since I know that in some of the cheaper versions there can be a little added co2. Or so I have read.
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