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No .. I am not accountable to you . deal with it .

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I've heard God speaking to me through people on this forum, through my children, through secular music, through those that I've disagreed with, through friends, through those who have used me and the list goes on.

I mean seriously, if God can use a donkey to speak to someone (I wonder if that donkey had a preexisting relationship with Balaam to correct him? ;)) certainly He can use anyone or anything we come in contact with to speak to us. We need to learn to listen and discern His voice.

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Lol, a year back or so I didn't go to church, people said bad things about me, I was offended, I forgave them but I didn't want to go to that church anymore, so I didn't go for some weeks or two, three months. Comes my kid (his dad preaches there), he tells me while I'm lying in my bed: Mommy, daddy says that if you never go to a church that's from the devil. ^_^ I said: Yeah I'll go, I'll go to grandma's church (impossible, too far away). My son says: But dad's church is really the best church there is!!!! ^_^
Lol anyway, I came since that sunday and the problems with those women vanished.
 
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Lol, a year back or so I didn't go to church, people said bad things about me, I was offended, I forgave them but I didn't want to go to that church anymore, so I didn't go for some weeks or two, three months. Comes my kid (his dad preaches there), he tells me while I'm lying in my bed: Mommy, daddy says that if you never go to a church that's from the devil. ^_^ I said: Yeah I'll go, I'll go to grandma's church (impossible, too far away). My son says: But dad's church is really the best church there is!!!! ^_^
Lol anyway, I came since that sunday and the problems with those women vanished.

Out of the mouths of babes... ;)

God speaks to us in so many different ways.

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The only way one person really can effectively "correct" a brother of sister in the Lord is by having a relationship with them.
Consider that Peter preached to thousands on Pentecost and told them they sinned by killing Jesus and he did not have a personal relationship with each one.

or consider the prophets who were told to cry aloud and show the sins of the nation. Or Jonah who warned Ninevah etc etc

Jesus told his disciples to preach repentance and remission of sins. Yes, all must be led by the Spirit .

“Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.” (Isaiah 58:1)

“Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:” (Acts 2:23)


as far as accountability, we are told to be ready to give an answer to every man that asketh for the reason of the hope that is in us. Jesus told us to love our neighbours and who is our neighbour?
 
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