I grew up and accepted the cold hard facts. It takes more integrety to be honest about this than to hide behind religious cliches and charades.
SlowFade, I respect your position and understand how you've arrived where you are. I can't deny that I've been close. So you're understood, respected, and accepted by me.
Hope that changes, else there will be a rude awakening some day.
Unfortunately, this won't be enough...
So it's all about the "rude awakening" isn't it? Turn or burn. Holy Ghost or hell. Get right or get left. Got Jesus? It's hell without him.
Yes, let's approach a person who has lost their faith, struggling with the meaning of it all, and hit him straight in the gut with the "Hell punch". That'll straighten him out!!
So it's all about the "rude awakening" isn't it? Turn or burn. Holy Ghost or hell. Get right or get left. Got Jesus? It's hell without him.
Yes, let's approach a person who has lost their faith, struggling with the meaning of it all, and hit him straight in the gut with the "Hell punch". That'll straighten him out!!
Whatever works, man. Whatever works.
(Not that it would! )
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
So it's all about the "rude awakening" isn't it? Turn or burn. Holy Ghost or hell. Get right or get left. Got Jesus? It's hell without him.
Yes, let's approach a person who has lost their faith, struggling with the meaning of it all, and hit him straight in the gut with the "Hell punch". That'll straighten him out!!
That is how it usually was in regards to leaving our specific church (regardless of whether or not you were leaving to join another -in this case UPC, that just happened to be more convenient). It wasn't even about losing ones faith.... it was about nothing but church membership.
That is how it usually was in regards to leaving our specific church (regardless of whether or not you were leaving to join another -in this case UPC, that just happened to be more convenient). It wasn't even about losing ones faith.... it was about nothing but church membership.
Self-preservation, in other words.
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Last edited by notofworks; 03-22-2010 at 03:15 PM.
So it's all about the "rude awakening" isn't it? Turn or burn. Holy Ghost or hell. Get right or get left. Got Jesus? It's hell without him.
Yes, let's approach a person who has lost their faith, struggling with the meaning of it all, and hit him straight in the gut with the "Hell punch". That'll straighten him out!!
I found my "faith", I didn't loose it. I finally embraced REALITY. Now I breathe in the fresh air and count every blessing knowing that one day I will be too old and feeble to experience the world around me. Eventually I'll die and be non-existant. So every day I live is a celebration of life, fun, enjoyment, charity, work and pleasure.
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