Apostolic Friends Forum - If everyone was just like you........

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Originally Posted by jwharv (Post 175208)

What would your church be like if everyone in it was just like you?

This question reminds me of what my late father said when he was told

he HAD to to take up a weapon. He had signed up, after being drafted in

the mid-1940's, as a non-combant in the Army. He was trained as a medic

and went overseas. There they issued the weapons and told him he had to

carry a weapon because they left all those ------ -------, back in the

United States. He told them the Constitution of the United States gave him

the right, as an American to not bear arms. He would do what his

conscience would allow him. They told him, "Go on and get your weapon",

He picked up his medical bags and with that one of the officers yelled,

"Wouldn't we be in a h--- of a mess if everyone thought like you"? Dad

replied "No, Sir, if everyone thought like me, there would be no war". He

came back after the war and I learned by example that just because some-

one said you HAD to do something, didn't make it necessarily so. It would

be interesting to know just how many young men in their twenties, with a

wife and four very young children, would stand up under pressure to those

who would insist they do something against their conscience. There are

those who would insist that those who would not carry a weapon were

cowards. No friend, to me the heros are the ones who will stand in the

face of opposition and declare, "There are just some things I am not will-

ing to violate and that is MY conscience". I am SO proud of my late father

as I saw him stand and show his children how to stand for righteousness.

Then it was left up to us what we would do with OUR conscience. There

is a difference in having a conscience for pleasing God and having our own

will and way. There really is a BIG difference!

Happy Independance Day to all! Thank God for the liberty we can have in

God and in the freedoms we have as Americans. Someone who went before

us paid for ours. Our inheritance is what we receive. Our legecy is what we

will pass on to our children and grandchildren, etc.

J.W. Harv, I would hope that if everyone in the church we attend thought

or was like me, we'd have CHURCH!:clap:clap:clap:yahoo:yahoo:yahoo

Blessings,

Falla39