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I laugh, sometimes to the point of crying. Then I give thanks for people like him.
Whether he realizes it or not it is people like him who are driving away people from the fundamentalist/evangelical churches and right into my congregation. We are growing, mostly with people tired of being condemned, admonished and berated to by an untrained preacher who "just knows" what God says and of course is the only way to salvation.
They come to us because I preach love, tolerance, acceptance - no you can't skate through life and be a jerk, but you don't have to be doctrinally perfect lest you lose your place in heaven. The more folks like him rant and rave, I pray the more they come to us and find a gospel message of love and understand what Christ meant when he said love one another as I have loved you.
You cannot be a Christian and a pagan. Jesus said you cannot serve two masters. You cannot be a child of God and a child of the devil!
Also this verse - There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.
A person cannot be saved and lost at the same time.
A person cannot have the Holy Spirit dwelling in them and the devil at the same time!
A person cannot be on their way to heaven and on their way to hell at same time.
This is ridiculous and non-biblical to determine that a person is a Pagan while the person is a Christian, based on what Christ says in the Bible about salvation.
Lastly, no one else can judge whether or not I am saved. They can guess all they want, and judge all they choose, but in the end, God determines it.
That is why we should search the Scriptures to see what is right, in case someone comes along and misquotes and/or misunderstands and does not rightly divide the Word of God. You put on the whole armor of God so that you can defeat the firey darts of the enemy. (Book of Ephesians).
well, what else would you be talking about if something happened to you,
like some guy comes over and raises your dead brother back to life, ya
know, might not be able to stop talking about it, right ?
WOW! I attend a Seder every year for Passover. Did you find it interesting? I love the significance of all the elements of the meal.
Yes, it was the first time. Very interesting, and tasty, too.. I take a religious education course through a nearby church. It's part bible study, part church history, part working toward finding what your ministry should be. The course is facilitated by an Episcopal rector. One of the other members is a young woman who has a Jewish mother and a Christian father, but she was raised culturally Jewish. Her parents left it to her to find her own path. She attends a Reform temple on Friday night, and she sings in the church choir on Sunday.
She led the Seder--she knows the Hebrew, and the rector is familiar with the ritual as well, and we all brought a contribution to the meal.
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I even threw in a Ghostbusters reference for good measure
