Why yes, comfort is one of the three temptations.
My dad used to say that if you leave church feeling good, the preacher’s not doing his job.
they are welcome guests in any of our houses of G0d, but they do not set the rules
Wait a minute, mormons telling Christians how to behave like Christians?
Am I missing something here?
Bttt
God is love. That is true.
The problem is we are not. We are evil and enemies of God. Thus we want to do things that are evil and corrupt the very nature of God’s design.
The scriptures states that if we love the world we make ourselves enemies to God. So the “choice” is up to us.
“God is love.”
I agree
“Love is love! “
wishy-washy. can mean anything. like the men who “love” their daughters so much they run over them with cars or other wise kill them because they are not living by the earthly fathers standards?
“love” like jealous men or women who beat or kill the other when having relational disagreements?
“love” like parents who at the first sign of a boy or girl wearing or acting as an opposite sex child encourage and go out of their way to push the belief more firmly into their child”s mind that they were born the wrong sex?
“love” like when a dear friend decides some thing they and you know is biblically wrong you encourage and enable them in their self deception instead of standing firmly with Jesus and God’s word and trying to help them come to know the error of their choice and grow in Christ through the process?
It’s scary to think a pastor actually wrote what the article said.
He misses the whole part that God is the PERFECT Father, which means discipline and hearing things you don’t want to and being changed to a better (God’s) standard not being left to rot in our selfish sins. That too is love. And it makes the hugs and fun love of God even the sweeter :)
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a resort for saints.
The pastor is badly confused. Matt’s response is perfect.
Jesus’ interactions with known unrepentant sinners (the Pharisees, for example) are quite harsh and uncompromising - he never welcomes them in and begs them to stay - instead he called them snakes and told them they don’t know him because they don’t belong to the Father. To those who repented he said “Go and sin no more”. Read through John’s Gospel to see just how “tolerant” Jesus was willing to be towards sin.
Amen! Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
I would only disagree with Matt in his wish that the heretical faggot pastor pray for him. Why would you want Satan invoked on your life?