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Old 09-20-2017, 10:50 AM
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You didn't answer my question. If the people in your church are so sub-par, even to the point of your pastor teaching the heinous doctrine of tithing and wasting their time praying for souls while God speaks to you about how inferior their prayers are....why are you still there?
You mean...this one?

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Really? You're telling me God isn't capable of delivering a message through me to correct a pastor?

Which God do you serve? You, my friend, need to put God back on the pedestal.
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David,

Last week I was out-of-state and a pastor friend offered me a position within his church. However, I didn't reply with an answer.

I can't tell you I would be perfect, but I will tell you something. If I were ever to become a pastor, I would be the man that I would want leading me.
No doubt about that.
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Everyone is equally important!
Yes, we know. Jesus love everyone but YOU are His favorite.
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I know a few churches whose youth leader couldn't lead ants to a cow patty for feasting, much-less teach their youth how to maintain a relationship with god. So, to keep the youth in church, they bring in colored lights and smoke machines into youth services to entertain them!

I didn't know the Holy Ghost was too weak and boring, that it would need the assistance of colored lights and smoke machines to win and keep the youth.

FYI...I'm only 38 years of age.

God, I don't know what happened between my youth until the present day. Where did you fail? In my teenage years, your word and spirit kept me. I didn't need the assistance of smoke machines and colored lights to be kept by you. The awe of your power and who you are, they were enough for me until I decided to leave your presence for a few years, in my rebelliousness. However, it was your mercy that allowed me repentance and reconciliation of our relationship in my early adulthood years.

God, I'm curious, if your word and power were good enough for me in my teenage years, why isn't it good enough for the youth now? Are you lacking somewhere? Are you losing your touch? Why have church services adopted colored lights and smoke machines into church services? God, could it be that your ways are too old fashion?

God, could it be that our current leaders have just gone stupid? Could it be that our present youths and leaders live on a hype of emotionalism, have no clue in maintaining a relationship with you, so they need entertainment? Could it be that our current leaders don't know how to get a hold of you, so they substitute the leading of your spirit with a bunch of stupidity? Are they too stupid to realize that nothing can substitute the results of prayer and fasting?
Here's another entry of your diary.
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Here's another entry of your diary.
What about it?
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What about it?
Can you shoot a gun?
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Re: *** The Diary of Brainwashed ***

Brainwashed, you have a point, I agree. However, you added a bitter tone of grudging in it all. You still lack humility in all of this which is the result of bitterness. Your point is ruined by the remaining bitterness. If you would disregard your need to include how bad you think others are, and simply indicated to Go in your "diary" of YOUR faults and what YOU want God to do to you, it would be fine. But you just had to show bitterness by including the others you mention JUST LIKE THE PHARISEE.
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Such a lack of respect....

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Oh spare me......What about a lack of respect for using the word of God to enforce something that's no longer valid?

What happened to Paul's comment in 2 Corinth 9:7-(AMP)
Let each one give [thoughtfully and with purpose] just as he has decided in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver [and delights in the one whose heart is in his gift].



Where in this scripture is Paul commanding tithing for the New Testament church?

Can you answer that?
Picking on Sister Alvear?
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Picking on Sister Alvear?
Are you a CNN reporter?
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Are you a CNN reporter?
From the looks of your posts, I thought that was your job.
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