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Re: Better Safe Than Sorry?
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Originally Posted by Socialite
To me, this violated the Romans 14 principle of pushing your lack of conscience on someone else. You don't have to endorse to abstain yourself.
Probably better if we talk specifics.
Either way... don't you think it sounds fragile on grace? Like, man if you get that wrong, you may be TOAST!? |
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A pastoring elder should also be mature and approachable about what exactly is troubling his conscience.
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I agree, but I'm just saying that I understand (and empathize with) the mindset. I experience it. I don't know how you eliminate that kind of "weakness" from your psyche.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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