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General Conversation / Re: Renouncement of Christianity?
« on: March 26, 2009, 07:30:37 PM »
When one gives his heart to the Lord he is done. He is free. Period. End of story. That person chooses to accept His grace as the gift the Lord is giving them for who he is, what he was, what he is and what he will be. There are no labels, no titles, no actions, no fraud required. Most importantly there is NO NEED TO EXPLAIN TO OTHERS WHO WE ARE, where we stand, what we believe or how we act. No need to act like another, no need to talk like another or go where another goes.
If we tell a nonbeliever that we are a Christian we are put in that box. Yes! If we tell another Christian we are a Christian you can bet we are put in a box too! Do we measure up?
When you are put in that box it may not mean that all is lost and ears and eyes are closed or barriers are built. This is only temporary. Just live showing your true colors. The more we mature in Christ the more the expected character traits show through anyway. If they don't then just continue. These folks are watching, judging, and at times mocking but it is the ONE that the Lord knows will after a time come over to that box and peer inside to see if you are still in it. He is the one that will see through the barrier he naturally made and despite who you appear to be to many that person will look beyond the natural and come to Christ in time. Guess what...you may never know it and you don't need to. Your reward for serving will come hereafter.
Church and Christians do appear to have modernized today. Let's just say the church has COMPROMISED in some areas. All of us should be aware of how much world-like the environments we accept are. Fellowship can certainly be held in a fun environment in fun ways! The line has to be drawn, however, when we start to look like the world, sound like the world, and act like the world. You know those things that our flesh is really satisfied by not our relationship with the Lord. In fact many folks actually think it is clever to appear like the world in order to attract those that are the world to receive this hidden message or something. So if someone who is OF the world came over to participate in what he thought WAS the world and discovered that it only APPEARED to be the world but was to hopefully be received to NOT BE the world but produced by those who claim to NOT be of the world then what sort of box would we be put in then?
If we tell a nonbeliever that we are a Christian we are put in that box. Yes! If we tell another Christian we are a Christian you can bet we are put in a box too! Do we measure up?
When you are put in that box it may not mean that all is lost and ears and eyes are closed or barriers are built. This is only temporary. Just live showing your true colors. The more we mature in Christ the more the expected character traits show through anyway. If they don't then just continue. These folks are watching, judging, and at times mocking but it is the ONE that the Lord knows will after a time come over to that box and peer inside to see if you are still in it. He is the one that will see through the barrier he naturally made and despite who you appear to be to many that person will look beyond the natural and come to Christ in time. Guess what...you may never know it and you don't need to. Your reward for serving will come hereafter.
Church and Christians do appear to have modernized today. Let's just say the church has COMPROMISED in some areas. All of us should be aware of how much world-like the environments we accept are. Fellowship can certainly be held in a fun environment in fun ways! The line has to be drawn, however, when we start to look like the world, sound like the world, and act like the world. You know those things that our flesh is really satisfied by not our relationship with the Lord. In fact many folks actually think it is clever to appear like the world in order to attract those that are the world to receive this hidden message or something. So if someone who is OF the world came over to participate in what he thought WAS the world and discovered that it only APPEARED to be the world but was to hopefully be received to NOT BE the world but produced by those who claim to NOT be of the world then what sort of box would we be put in then?