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Re: Sensational Tactics in the Big City
There's a thought. My own ride was something of a roller coaster over the years. The ups and downs fueled by the alternating exhortations and wails of calamity coming from itinerants and pastors as well. I'm seeing a picture of a bunch of people strapped in and hanging upside down. Thankfully, there is a Rock of stability available.
FWIW and as a disclaimer: My kids were involved in the thing that Carp describes. My daughter says that "over 200 were baptized..." I'm certain that the numbers will be some what flexible. She's really upbeat on what went on, but then again, there are many things that are wisely kept from our children.
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01-31-2011, 06:32 PM
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Re: Sensational Tactics in the Big City
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There's a thought. My own ride was something of a roller coaster over the years. The ups and downs fueled by the alternating exhortations and wails of calamity coming from itinerants and pastors as well. I'm seeing a picture of a bunch of people strapped in and hanging upside down. Thankfully, there is a Rock of stability available.
FWIW and as a disclaimer: My kids were involved in the thing that Carp describes. My daughter says that "over 200 were baptized..." I'm certain that the numbers will be some what flexible. She's really upbeat on what went on, but then again, there are many things that are wisely kept from our children.
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What has me a little conflicted is the question of whether it is acceptable to compromise our dignity and our principals, and our scruples in order for just one person to be "saved" at least from a destructive lifestyle?
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01-31-2011, 06:37 PM
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Re: Sensational Tactics in the Big City
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What has me a little conflicted is the question of whether it is acceptable to compromise our dignity and our principals, and our scruples in order for just one person to be "saved" at least from a destructive lifestyle?
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What specific dignities, scruples and principles are you referring to (as being compromised)?
Dignity doesn't strike me as being all that important in the larger scheme of things; scruples and principles on the other hand....
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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;…."
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01-31-2011, 06:35 PM
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Re: Sensational Tactics in the Big City
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There's a thought. My own ride was something of a roller coaster over the years. The ups and downs fueled by the alternating exhortations and wails of calamity coming from itinerants and pastors as well. I'm seeing a picture of a bunch of people strapped in and hanging upside down. Thankfully, there is a Rock of stability available.
FWIW and as a disclaimer: My kids were involved in the thing that Carp describes. My daughter says that "over 200 were baptized..." I'm certain that the numbers will be some what flexible. She's really upbeat on what went on, but then again, there are many things that are wisely kept from our children.
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Excellent point, pel. Some things are better off discovered after one has the maturity to process it without being discouraged.
That said, I'd rather see someone passionately trying to do something good in the world and making mistakes along the way than, well, not doing anything at all. A happy medium would be better, of course.
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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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01-31-2011, 07:10 PM
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Re: Sensational Tactics in the Big City
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Excellent point, pel. Some things are better off discovered after one has the maturity to process it without being discouraged.
That said, I'd rather see someone passionately trying to do something good in the world and making mistakes along the way than, well, not doing anything at all. A happy medium would be better, of course.
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