woke up too early, 4:00 am
sitting here thinking about my talk with the Pastor on Sunday
I've been sporadically attending his church along with two other churches for a couple of years now
He looked me in the eye and said "you can't live for God by yourself"
I looked down at my feet thinking "I'm not doing such a bad job of it really"
He repeated it
I looked up and started to promise him that I would be faithfull to the house of God, but the words would not come out of my mouth.
I looked down at my feet again, looked back up and said "I'll try to be more faithfull"
But then I told him what I believed:
that the saved by repentace crowd that baptises in Jesus name and believes that people get the HG evidenced by tongues are doing ok
that I have a hard time believing that people in other churches who receive the HG are lost
that I have a hard time believing that people who used to preach this
Acts 2:38 message, but now preach saved at repentance are lost
That I think UC standards are silly
But in spite of all that, I still believe the message, I still believe that people should repent, be filled with the HG evidenced by tongues, and baptised in Jesus name.
That I like that they had 100 people filled with the HG last year
And I like the atmosphere of the church
that I don't know where the saved at repentance, trinitarian fellowshipping crowd is headed in the long run, but I think the 3 steppers and going to get the right results over time.
And so there I stand and I can only wonder what he thinks of me, I'm sure he has run into worse lol.