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Reasons why the Church is failing? The people in the Church have lost the ability to love like God loves. Accept sinners where they are, like God does through Christ Jesus. Forgive others, especially Christian brothers and sisters the way God forgives us. It is all about love, acceptance...

Very relevant to the topic. You are mixing GOD's unconditional love for all of mankind with obedience and calling them the same thing. Do you only love your wife and children when she/they are obedient to your desires? Do you choose whom to love and whom to hate randomly? Do you hate your...

This letter from Paul has a message for those who would elevate themselves with their self-serving theology of being the chosen............humbly chosen of course. Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because...

True. Also, George Washington might be one that should not be on lucaspa's list. He attended Christ Church in Alexandria, VA, which is still standing and still holds worship services each Sunday. Washington freed his slaves as a man who found that owning other people was contrary to his...

One must be wise in what social justice campaigns one endorses as a Christian. Even though the words are not found in the Bible in the exact order of the following phrase, the concept is found in the many Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation: "Love the sinner, hate the sin." We can endorse...

I agree, and: “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” and “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not...

Dave, Thanks for your witness. I believe that there is a balance of one on one gentle witness and some use of group opportunities, just like Jesus did. Not everyone who is saved is gifted in speaking openly to anyone and everyone, yet, are quite effective when in a more intimate setting in an...

I think you missed Robert's point, BIG TIME.

WOO HOO! Just rec'd my letter of acceptance into Southwestern College Master of Arts in Theological Studies graduate degree program.

Thanks for that, dayhiker. I was chewing on that but did not want to post or influence the discussion beyond what I already did. That, to me is a very astute observation and a bit deeper than my bit of uncomfortableness on it.

In Paul's letter to the Christians in Rome at the time, Paul told them that it is not those who hear the law but are not doers of the law that are saved by the law. Rather, those who do not have the law, yet do what the law requires because the precepts of the law are written in their hearts...

There was a discussion, you know, the type that takes place in longer shopping checkout register lines, about the recent mass shootings in Colorado and Wisconsin. One man was talking about he hoped that America would find the common denominator of the two recent shootings. On Sunday morning...

BryanW92, Moderators can come in, at any time, or on invitation, like in this case, when there is someone on the thread that is not on topic of the OP and begins to hijack the thread and attack the posters instead of staying on topic of the OP. I asked redheadedstepchild to come in and clean...

Praying for you MM. My family left a toxic Nazarene Church body in NM, because the Pastor started preaching Oswald Chambers instead of Jesus of Nazareth. The District eventually removed him and revoked his Ordination because he went way off base in many other areas of his life. Even Oswald...

It is starting out sunny and nice today already. And, the weather forecasters are calling for sprinkles to light rain off and on throughout the day. Time to get my household up and moving for Sunday worship services.

One more thought on this. We are Christians. We are to follow Christ's examples of properly living our faith in Him. That means that we are gentle and loving with those who need our gentle loving kindness and the only people we truly confront lovingly yet, most assuredly, in an assertive...

Brother F4T, There is a solution found in the Bible to all of the 10 things you mention above. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and...

Here is the bottom line here: IF the theater had armed off duty LEO or IF the theater had armed CCW US Citizens in that audience, AND, they were willing to defend everyone there, the outcome would have been a bit different. As to comparisons of cities of similar make up one need only look at...

Perhaps this is the one issue that can unite Christians and Islam in peace? I doubt it, but who knows? By the most recent demographics, conducted in a study by a liberal University of California campus, GLBT citizens in the USA make up smaller than 4% of the total population. The two...

They most likely will not. They are lefties that expect the government or somebody else to take care of them, including picking up their trash and other waste products. They will trespass and get asked to leave nicely. They will respond with obscenities, both verbally and demonstratively...