Please take a few minutes to watch this video and let me know what you think.
I really don't know what to think. I see the pain this is causing him. I also see the youth pastors side of this. It does cause a conflict of emotions and feeling inside me, when someone like him really seems to have a true love for Gods work and wants to be in the ministry field. I feel maybe the youth pastor should maybe take the time to teach what the Bible says about this before he goes about punishing people. What do you think ?
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Christian or Heathen ? Right or Wrong ? Why ?
I hear the same thing over and over again. Im not going to Church because its full of people that think they are better than anyone else, because its full of heathens. WOW - I guess you can't got to work, school, the grocery store or Wally World either then. The world is full of all kinds of people. I see people everyday who indeed think they are better than others, but I don't know if they are Christians or not.
I think Ill start walking up to the people that think they are better than others and ask them if they are Christians - because a lot of people seem to think that all Christians think they are better than everybody else. This would be really stupid on my part wouldn't it? But for some reason people that do not want to attend church want you to think its because of the nasty people that the church is full of. And at the same time some people in the church are hell bent and bound to preach (the very people they need to be showing love to) straight to hell. I wonder why this is?
Well I think I know ! You see the Bible says that God is not a God of confusion.
1 Corinthians 14:33 God is not a God of confusion but a God of peace. As in all the churches of God's holy people.
This sounds like a lot of confusion to me! I mean there is a serious break down of communication. This sounds like the job of none other than Satan himself. You see if the lines of communication are brought down between the Church and the world then what good is the church? If the people in the church just sit and do nothing to communicate with the world then what good are these people to God?
During war times what is the first thing the opposing sides do ? They try to bring down each others communication centers. If the commanding officers can't communicate with the front line then there is confusion. This confusion makes it much easier for defeat. So how much of a communication barrier can be put between the Church and the world? Well thats really up to all of us. You see the communication between God and his children can't be broken, but how well his children listen to him can be reduced to a minimum if we let it. Are we gonna let this confusion in our hearts? Are we gonna let the world die and go to Hell? Are gonna sit and do nothing?
So I ask myself today - What good am I to God ? I would have to say - not much good. How about you are you sitting tight holding onto your own or are you sharing Gods love with everyone else. Sometimes your fear of those around you that are different than you can be perceived as a - better than everyone else attitude. At the same time if you are sitting on the outside of the church and want to come in - why not just come in and see what happens. If the church is a good Bible believing church I think God will make sure you are ok.
Does this mean that a lifestyle that is spoken against in the bible will be deemed ok by the church? Of course not, because the Church has been charged with a responsibility to keep the commandments and and laws made by God. If the Church lets sin flourish inside the church then the Church will be ineffective for God.
We all have to come the the understanding that we are sinners. None of us are special in this. A sin is a sin is a sin. If you are living in a life of sin and want to pretend that its not sinful then you are fooling yourself and others. If you realize that you are a sinner and want to be forgiven those sins and be saved by the grace of God then you are on the right track to saving others.
But lets not make this any harder than it is - some people are under the false assumption that if you get saved you have to live a perfect life from that point on. Well this isn't true. You are still gonna sin, but you will be covered by the blood of the lamb (Jesus) and those sins are forgiven by Gods grace. Yes it is wrong to sin and yes you should try and turn away from your sin, but its inevitable that sin will creep into your life at some time. Not to worry because Jesus took care of this on the cross.
If we concentrate on what we should be doing for Jesus and not on the sin in our lives so much, we might just be productive loving Christians. That is why Jesus died on the cross - to save us from our own destructive sinfulness. He made it so we didn't have to worry about it. All we have to do is focus on him.
I think Ill start walking up to the people that think they are better than others and ask them if they are Christians - because a lot of people seem to think that all Christians think they are better than everybody else. This would be really stupid on my part wouldn't it? But for some reason people that do not want to attend church want you to think its because of the nasty people that the church is full of. And at the same time some people in the church are hell bent and bound to preach (the very people they need to be showing love to) straight to hell. I wonder why this is?
Well I think I know ! You see the Bible says that God is not a God of confusion.
1 Corinthians 14:33 God is not a God of confusion but a God of peace. As in all the churches of God's holy people.
This sounds like a lot of confusion to me! I mean there is a serious break down of communication. This sounds like the job of none other than Satan himself. You see if the lines of communication are brought down between the Church and the world then what good is the church? If the people in the church just sit and do nothing to communicate with the world then what good are these people to God?
During war times what is the first thing the opposing sides do ? They try to bring down each others communication centers. If the commanding officers can't communicate with the front line then there is confusion. This confusion makes it much easier for defeat. So how much of a communication barrier can be put between the Church and the world? Well thats really up to all of us. You see the communication between God and his children can't be broken, but how well his children listen to him can be reduced to a minimum if we let it. Are we gonna let this confusion in our hearts? Are we gonna let the world die and go to Hell? Are gonna sit and do nothing?
So I ask myself today - What good am I to God ? I would have to say - not much good. How about you are you sitting tight holding onto your own or are you sharing Gods love with everyone else. Sometimes your fear of those around you that are different than you can be perceived as a - better than everyone else attitude. At the same time if you are sitting on the outside of the church and want to come in - why not just come in and see what happens. If the church is a good Bible believing church I think God will make sure you are ok.
Does this mean that a lifestyle that is spoken against in the bible will be deemed ok by the church? Of course not, because the Church has been charged with a responsibility to keep the commandments and and laws made by God. If the Church lets sin flourish inside the church then the Church will be ineffective for God.
We all have to come the the understanding that we are sinners. None of us are special in this. A sin is a sin is a sin. If you are living in a life of sin and want to pretend that its not sinful then you are fooling yourself and others. If you realize that you are a sinner and want to be forgiven those sins and be saved by the grace of God then you are on the right track to saving others.
But lets not make this any harder than it is - some people are under the false assumption that if you get saved you have to live a perfect life from that point on. Well this isn't true. You are still gonna sin, but you will be covered by the blood of the lamb (Jesus) and those sins are forgiven by Gods grace. Yes it is wrong to sin and yes you should try and turn away from your sin, but its inevitable that sin will creep into your life at some time. Not to worry because Jesus took care of this on the cross.
If we concentrate on what we should be doing for Jesus and not on the sin in our lives so much, we might just be productive loving Christians. That is why Jesus died on the cross - to save us from our own destructive sinfulness. He made it so we didn't have to worry about it. All we have to do is focus on him.
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