Still In Shock in Tampa!

Originally Posted by JTULLOCK

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Hey CC1 it looks as if he is giving up. Yea for us!

Phil, truth is that no one is telling anyone how to plow the field. I am trying to show you why I plow at all. You are trying to show me that you have to plow it, no other options but plow. Also you tell that we have to plow with the exact same equipment you use. Sounds silly?

I do not consider myself a judge. If you are feeling that I am judging you I am sorry you are wrong. I will be honest with you I don't care what your convictions are or anyone for that matter. I want to know if you show mercy, love God, full of the spirit. Those are the things that matter to Mr. JTullock. I appreciate yours and everyone else conviction, but they do not mean anything to me because they are personal convictions. That is how it should be. However, CC1, I and other mod/libs do not get the same treatment from some of the UC's out there. We are always measured by your measuring sticks. You and some others never allow God to measure us because you are so caught up in measuring us.

I will agree to disagree on this front, but you must not in the future attacl people that do not believe the same as you do. The elitest mentality does not become you very well. Bro. you may not be a legalist at your core, but we can only go with the info we have in front of us. Do you wish now to continue this conversation?

Brother,

i am going to try this one last time.

The things that were said to CC1 in my first post to him were intentionally asinine... I was saying things to him a legalist would say in an effort show him how it feels to a man who is conservative by choice when someone says that he is conservative because he can't face the real world and is hiding behind the skirts of legalism.

If you can comprehend this then I will continue discussing this with you. If you cannot clearly state that you are clear on the above paragraph, continuing this discussion would be futile.

Your response will determine mine.

Just as an FYI... let me copy and paste one of my posts from another thread. DA PMd me and asked me to weigh in on the topic and I did.


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Originally Posted by Pastor Poster View Post
This is a quite aggressive article from someone outside of the org. I will comment on this later this evening.

PP,

I agree that the article is aggressive... but is it wrong? Have we as a movement (not just the UPC) lost the proper perspective... the ability to see things in their relative importance? Has our emphasis so shifted from the vanishing point that we have become a skewed, unfocused picture of what God intended us to be? Has the Kingdom of God (righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost) been lost in the trappings of meat and drink? Have we disinherited our spiritually born, full blood brethren when only the earnest of the inheritance is actually ours? Have we sought our differences to the detriment of our likeness?

I am concerned that one of the other things that accompanies devolution is often genocide. God forbid that we would bite and devour one another as though we were the enemy.

The UPC needs to reestablish itself on the basic and fundamental doctrine as stated in the articles of faith and they need to recommit to the principle of unity!

Enough of my rambling... I will try to respond in a more structured manner later.

This is who I am. Believe it.... Or not!