• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

What Good?

What good is all the theology in the world if we don't show the contrast between the 'self' serving will of man and the 'other' oriented will of God... the clash and counter-culture between Kingdom and world of man? What is the good of talking of all sorts of sins when the only and original sin is putting our selfish will ahead of the will of God? What good is exchanging God's Gospel of the Kingdom for a salvation gospel of man? What good is it in making it about ourselves rather than about God? What good is the Holy Spirit to you for guidance unless you are already on the narrow path of the Kingdom? What good is focusing on how we got a shot at entering the Kingdom without knowing why or what makes the Kingdom different? What good is expecting to be saved when we haven't even rejected the ways and world of man? What good is first focusing on self salvation when the Gospel is about the coming Kingdom/governance of God... Him, not us? What good is faith or hope in the unknown when God has already said what will happen as a fact and He would not have said His Kingdom would come and His will would be done if it were not so?

© ...timothyu

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