Uzytkownik "Frank Pericope" <frank.pericope@oneimage.com> napisal w
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> "Ariaan"
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> > Frank Pericope wrote:
> > > "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message
> > > news:<c4f97q$sja$0@pita.alt.net>...
> > >> Uzytkownik "Frank Pericope" <frank.pericope@oneimage.com> napisal w
> > >> wiadomosci news:dc55e47f.0403310526.6e13becb@posting.google.com...
> > >>> "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message
> > >> news:<c4bcvb$82r$0@pita.alt.net>...
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > >>>> After all, evangelical christians are the last group of people it's
> > >>>> politically correct to hate, so you might as well enjoy the warm
> > feelings
> > >>>> from being part of the machine against us.
> > >>>
> > >>> "Love the Christian, hate the evangelizing." ;-)
> > >>
> > >> I'm sure people would love us to shut up. They'd probably like us
> > >> stuffed as trophies, with an apple in the mouth.
> > >>
> > >> Uncle Davey
> > >
> > > It's my opinion that, if evangelicals would 1) behave in a manner
> > > consistent with the message they carry, and 2) let their light shine,
> > > rather than going around trying to point searchlights in people's
> > > eyes, they might be well received--and find that their message carries
> > > itself.
> > >
> > > Try 'em both for 90 days and see what happens.
> > >
> > > - F.
> >
> > I don't know about Evangelicals; I'm a mere Christian. But you're of
course
> > very right and the only problem is, as far as point 1 is concerned, the
fact
> > that Christian can have a temper too. I know I do. Sometimes that gets
in
> > the way of living the message.
> >
> > Ariaan
>
> Of course we can, and do; I know of no perfect Christian. But if one's
> behavior is continually bringing condemnation from most quarters,
> perhaps one might best serve Him by withdrawing from evangelizing
> until one figures out how to live the message so far as is humanly
> possible, rather than the minimum necessary to stay out of jail.
>
> We're all capable of righteousness, as well as unrighteousness.
>
> - F.
When it says 'there is none righteous, no not one', that means that by
nature we actually aren't capable of righteousness.
If God enables us to act righteously in any case, then that's to be thankful
for.
In any event, in practice Christians often are a lot worse than atheists and
people who believe in religions without the Saviour, after all, Christians
are under attack in a way they are not. Ideally, knowing the love and the
forgiveness of God, we should be walking head and shoulders about other men
and women in goodness, but in actual fact this seems very hard to achieve
and is very rare.
I know I can't seem to achieve it, myself. I couldn't even listen through
the second sermon this morning without dreaming up a new pancake recipe. My
wife didn't hear what verse in Thessalonians we were asked to look up and
whispered to me to ask what it was. I whispered back "I'm sorry, I was just
thinking what the leftovers of those ribs in barbecue sauce you made
yesterday would taste like in pancakes with some cheese and sweetcorn, and I
missed the verse too".
Well, thankfully my wife is a patient and loving woman, and so she just
laughed. But when we got back from church without saying anything she made
those pancakes on her French galletiere, and jolly delicious they were.
Which just goes to show we get better than we deserve.
Uncle Davey
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