Someone who is most likely better looking than you.
Just calling it like I see it, and from the looks of the foam from your mouth, I must of hit the nerve.
It's an old picture and they are older. They are free to make their own desicisons, when they grow to adulthood. I commented about it in another
thread. Yet, while my children may stay in what my wife and I believe or not, I highly doubt they would tell us to "take a hike." Unlike your children, (I am only assuming here, since you have taken a postion of being experienced at this) who told you to take a hike, my children like what we do and are a part of what we do. It's not just a mid week service, Sunday thing, but a lifestyle. You were a fire ball? So you burned the children to a crisp, and now you swung the pendulum from one extreme to the other. If I may, allow me to inform you, while you learned about Jesus via a pulpit, I learned about Jesus through a Bible and prayer. So, calm down, and have a Coke and a smile.
And your posts reek of someone who wouldn't have the guts to shoot their mouth off in person. So they hide behind a computer screen and beat their chest and tin drum, and bore the socks off everyone who cares. Lighten up Tarzan.
Many walk out of churches because of the same old Sunday school mess they learned as a kid is still being pumped down their throats as adults. Yet, they don't leave the faith, they just leave those churches. People who leave Jesus Christ, do it because they have other issues that surpass any preacher preaching hell fire and brimstone. If Jesus preached and David played his harp they still would walk out. Next time you happen to look at the door stop in your living room and flip through its pages, you may come across
1st Cor 3:6-8 and find one plants seeds and another waters, yet it is God who gives the increase as the soul who had been sowed and watered answers the call. The problem is guys like you think you have way more control in the salvation and child rearing then is possible. The souls we preach to and children we teach can only be led so far, and God and themselves have most of the walking to do. I know, it's a control issue with you and you may believe that people can be manipulated to stay in church, and live for God.
Yet, that just isn't so. It is a one on one situation, no pulpit pounding, neck cracking, or sweet love messages are going to do anything for anyone if Jesus Christ isn't involved.
No, read about it and found out that there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.
So, from the scriptural discription I'll pass. Therefore I instruct others to stay out of the long term plan of retiring there. You it seems would rather be known for soothing the brows of those who pay your bills and therefore sing them sweet nothings.
Revelation 21:8 the fearful, the unbeliever, the abominable, the murderers, whoremongers, socerers, idolaters, and all liars. If any are missed you can find some more in
Gal 5:20-21.
I'd give a big shot like you one week in my world. After a vagrant bit through your knee cap, and I would have to pray you through while you got a tetanus shot, we would really see how you couldn't last 8 seconds before the bell rung.
A couple of years?
Yes, may God have mercy on you. You see I just preached it to you.
I love you
Hurt, cry and fail end up staying in the grace of God's protection. Those who thumb their nose at God and tell Him to take a hike, rocket to Hell. Sincere people stay the course even when they stumble, but jokers, make hell their home.
Is that what you think you are?
You don't know me, you just think you know me. You are not like me.
What I do here I'll do in person, just faster.
I have heard the cooling out with time speech ever since I walked through the doors of the church. It is usually quoted by those who really were never HOT, just really unwise. Others who quote the phrase, do so because they don't like to see zeal, because that zeal convicts them of where they're at.
You see Kemosahbee, people shouldn't cool off the longer they are with Jesus, but should get hotter. Jesus doesn't want us cold, He wants us hot. Mellowed out, I guess would be lukewarm, and therefore get vomited out of His mouth.
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