Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
I guess I’ll try and adjust my habit/tendencies.
It sometimes seems like an enormous challenge to post within fitting guidelines that you manage so well . . .
and
still ‘exhort one another daily’ etc. as Scripture instructs.
Then there’s that old KJV thing about PROVOKING unto love and good works. LOL.
But then maybe it’s just the way that mysterious space between my ears functions given all the above.
I certainly don’t know precisely and exaustively, much less perfectly people’s minds, hearts, motives etc.
Yet, SCRIPTURE makes clear that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth [fingers] speak. So, it’s not like there’s NO clue to heart motives, either.
I really don’t have guile toward all of us, any of us made in God’s image. . . . even folks in the rabid cliques.
I do have hostility toward the enemy’s work in and through any of us, including me. And, I’m happy for others to be hostile to the enemy’s work in and/or through me.
It SEEMS like, APPEARS to me . . . as well as a number of others who’ve FREEPMAILED ME over the years . . . that THE LORD has insured that I have some . . . facility . . . for the sort of thing described in post #155’s excerpts from the RAGAMUFFIN GOSPEL
here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2546145/posts?page=1555#1555
It has always been a challenge to me to live within the letter of the rules first and the spirit of the rules 2nd and ALSO exercise whatever degree of gifting and leading The Lord may seem to be urging me to do vis a vis speaking truth into a variety of regular and lurker’s lives SPRINGBOARDING off of individual posts and examples.
I’D GREATLY APPRECIATE ANY further guidance and exhortations you’d have about treading that seemingly extremely narrow path.
You stay within the guidelines though you push the envelope on certain evidently "hot button" issues. And you have been known to go too far, but you always comply when I step in with a warning. I don't see where we have a problem.