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To: kjam22
The church, I believe, has acted in its legal purview correctly. However, I see the church's role as something more than in a 'legal' sense.

Whatever do you mean that the pastor attempted to 'reconcile her'.

Actually, the young mother and her daughter are better off without this church and this school. I really have to laugh at people who say Jesus wouldn't go in a bar! Oh yeah....if that is true, then he isn't God/Jesus because God/Jesus is supposed to be everywhere. So, he is with the drunks and dredges of society, who really need him in their lives just as he is with real Christians who haven't set up all the man-made rules for being a Christian.

I can tell you that as a young mother, it was a pastor/church full of good intentions that destroyed my relationship with God for well over 30 years....and I guarantee you, there ain't no Christian or no Church that is going to interfere with that relationship again.....if God doesn't like what I'm doing, He will change me--or I will stand condemned--but it will be by Him and not some mere mortal who is bound and determined they know better than God what is required to be a Christian.

69 posted on 05/16/2002 11:46:25 AM PDT by Rowdee
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To: Rowdee
Actually, the young mother and her daughter are better off without this church and this school. I really have to laugh at people who say Jesus wouldn't go in a bar! Oh yeah....if that is true, then he isn't God/Jesus because God/Jesus is supposed to be everywhere. So, he is with the drunks and dredges of society, who really need him in their lives just as he is with real Christians who haven't set up all the man-made rules for being a Christian. I can tell you that as a young mother, it was a pastor/church full of good intentions that destroyed my relationship with God for well over 30 years....and I guarantee you, there ain't no Christian or no Church that is going to interfere with that relationship again.....if God doesn't like what I'm doing, He will change me--or I will stand condemned--but it will be by Him and not some mere mortal who is bound and determined they know better than God what is required to be a Christian.

It's all philosophy according to Rowdee. And for Rowdee it is the law and the gospel. I understand that. But I believe the Bible is the Word of God. I'll lean on it for my philosophical instruction... thanks anyway:)

73 posted on 05/16/2002 11:55:44 AM PDT by kjam22
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