[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so very much for sharing your testimony and insights, dear brother/sister in Christ, and thank you for your encouragement!

I believe as the final days come into view more of us as Christians will be called to face down the deceptions which are quickly taking hold across our nation. We need to be informed of what they are and those churches, groups and organizations promoting these. Further to genuinely be aware of the enemies devices so we can spot those deceptions.

As that battle rages we will need to discern that it isn't just about leading folks to the Lord, as we have known so well in the past, but also of rescuing, and fighting for those who get caught in the thickets, or on their way, as they stray or are enticed away from the foundations of Christianity. I see this happening often now.

I also see this happening. Indeed, I have been urgently compelled in the Spirit to many an atheist/agnostic thread concerning politics, philosophy or science along with my beloved brothers and sisters in Christ.

It is as if, in the past, barely rooted Christians had the time to wallow in intellectual agnosticism - but no more.

In these battles, the doctrinal differences among us are not at issue - but rather forming a bulwark against the onslaught of the spirit of anti-Christ, protecting the vulnerable "young" Christians. We don't know who they are, but we know that they are. We know there is a final cause for the work to which we have been drawn.

And, as you say, God has equipped all of us with gifts of the Spirit which are up to the task. Indeed, I am humbled by the effectiveness which can only be attributed to His grace.

He has brought together in this great debate philosophers, scientists, attorneys, mathematicians, preachers, writers - bound by a common love of God and Spiritual language.

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. - Matthew 22:37-38

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned. - I Corinthians 2:14

He has provided the gifts, the medium, the calling and the urgency. Clearly, something is afoot in God's calendar.

But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. - Daniel 12:4

God is not a hypothesis. He lives. His Name is I AM. I've known Him for a half century and counting.

[xzins]

but rather forming a bulwark against the onslaught of the spirit of anti-Christ, protecting the vulnerable "young" Christians.

Our disunity is telling. The young see it. We have no common message, no coordinated effort. It's killing our testimony with them, and it drains the power & resources that would come from a combined effort.

John 17:23 I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.

[TXnMA]

FReepMail for you, Dear Sisters in Christ!

While I've been offline -- creating graphics and composing discussion text, it looks like I've missed out on some good discussion here. Please pardon me while I play catch-up... ;-)

[Quix]

INDEED. INDEED. INDEED.

And I find myself still, often, grieving over those who—because of time and energy . . . must increasingly be ignored . . . in favor of those more likely to bear fruit for The Kingdom.

Sigh.