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To: cva66snipe

What are their fruits?


240 posted on 09/19/2013 4:31:21 AM PDT by jodyel
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To: jodyel
What are their fruits?

LOL What are yours? One aunt raised a kid from birth that was not hers but fathered by her husband. She raised the child alone as her own. She put him through college for the ministry he was called too. She was not a rich person. Another ones fruits was being a caregiver to two disabled grandkids and helping raise them into adulthood. For her being a Catholic & me a Baptist it's odd we had the same taste in Gospel Music LOL. She literally spent nearly her entire adult life as the family care giver to one person or another. It was her gift and her calling.

Her Brother {my uncle} and my dad full brother was a defrocked Baptist Deacon. Why? Oh this was a real Gem of judgemental legalism. He was a retired Navy Commander in his late 70's. His wife had passed and he had some serious medical issues. So his wife's cousins who were brother and sister moved in shortly after her death to care for him. The church who had taken his money, his labor, and even used his home for visiting preachers to stay suddenly declared him to be living in sin with an unmarried woman. Never mind the fact no one in that church offered to care for him or help him.

If a person wants to look for wrongs in churches most have them as they are imperfect. Now if churches were perfect them most certainly they would not need a savior.

I see good in most churches except a few who have made efforts to persecute Christians, stop public worship such as prayer, or deny Jesus Christ Divinity. One is United Church of Christ the other is Universal Unitarian Church which flat out rejects Christ as the son of GOD and savior.

This one is going to really get things heated but one of my cousin's two sons spent I think it wss two years in required missionary work. They could not contact their mom or dad during that time. Oh he was raised Baptist and changed churches when he married.

My family doesn't fight over who goes to what church or which church is right. Over the years we've all talked at various times and realize we all serve the same Lord and savior. We had too many others in the family whom all of us were trying to get them to come to Christ and focused our efforts on and it was a joint effort. No one cared which church they joined. We cared if they accepted Christ as Lord and savior.

260 posted on 09/19/2013 5:04:39 AM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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