Hospitality

[Left]

I'm going to be making a lot of threads for awhile, because I have a lot of trauma.

Anyway, from experience, I feel the more most people understand the Bible, the less they understand feelings, psychology, sociology and taking care of people.

Something happened to me recently which made me realize taking care of people and hospitality is, dare I say it, more important than God. I don't think God is so jealous that He thinks we should put our greatest concept of Him above a hurting person.

If that makes me go to hell, oh well.

 

[Tolworth John]

taking care of people and hospitality is, dare I say it, more important than God

The second person of the trinity gave up his position in heaven to become a baby, grow to be a man, to be brutaly tortured to death in order that those who will recieve him may have eturnal life.
How is being kind and polite to others more important than accepting what Jesus did for us?

 

[Left]

The second person of the trinity gave up his position in heaven to become a baby, grow to be a man, to be brutaly tortured to death in order that those who will recieve him may have eturnal life.
How is being kind and polite to others more important than accepting what Jesus did for us?

Let's just say I may or may not have met a Charismatic person who took their discernment of God speaking to them and "their" understanding of the Bible to the extent that they may have even applied it to their view on psychology, etc. This led to them hurting me.

 

[Tolworth John]

This led to them hurting me.

I am sorry if I have made your hurt worse.

All I can suggest is if this happen within a church fellowship, ie you both belong to the same church, to take it to the eldership, as all gifts and there use/abuse are subject to verifcation by the church.

 

[Tempura]

I firmly believe taking care of people, being kind and helping them, IS what God wants us to do. I cannot look these two as different things, as if God is on the other side, and being gentle in one's actions on the other. That's probably why I value faith more than religion, and heart/actions more than our own words.

If I try to bash my views about God into someone's head, hurting them in the process, is that what God wants me to do? I don't believe it is. Getting a convert is nothing, if it's not based on free will, truth and genuinely caring. It won't last, and it can scar people. But helping someone who's struggling with their faith or life, not forcing them, not trying to get the other one to be a copy of yourself, that's another thing.

Love is the answer. If we don't have love, we don't have anything. And I believe God is love, and wants us to love.