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To: Mad Dawg
AND here's what's wrong with you guys: ;-)

God invites us to His party. He tells us to bring nothing but ourselves. We show up with balloons, streamers, table decorations, a cake, snacks, party favors, and parting gifts. We didn't believe Him when he asked us to bring nothing. So He has His party all set, and what is He to do with all this stuff? All of a sudden, it's not His party anymore. It;s become what we thought His party should be. WE decide what food would be served. WE decided what the decorations would be. He decided the party place, but we took over the rest.

SO, who's party is it now?

683 posted on 07/19/2010 6:49:14 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness (Defending the Indefensible. The Pride of a Pawn.)
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To: small voice in the wilderness
That is perfect.

Jesus is the hobo out back with a nasty hotdog on a stick over a fire in a coffee can. And He says, "Come and have breakfast."

691 posted on 07/19/2010 7:13:23 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (O Maria, sine labe concepta, ora pro nobis qui ad te confugimus.)
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To: small voice in the wilderness
SO, who's party is it now?

Good analogy. Reminds me of "The Parable of the Wedding Banquet" (and he even provides the party clothes!):

Matthew 22:1-14

Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.

"Then he sent some more servants and said, 'Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.'
"But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

"Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.' So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

"But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 'Friend,' he asked, 'how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man was speechless.

"Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

"For many are invited, but few are chosen."

703 posted on 07/19/2010 7:42:51 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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