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Originally Posted by Originalist
Let's say an old friend looks you up. You share with him briefly concerning your conviction about house church. He asks to meet with you. Then you get a call from a mutual friend saying that this same guy called him and bad mouthed you and said he planned to straighten you out for defying God's authority in your life by not having a "covering".
How would you handle that differently than the original poster?
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1. I seriously doubt I would be 'blind sided' by the 'old friend'. And if he did try to straighten me out, so called, I'd simply discuss with him the issues and we'd have a bible study and prayer together.
2. I doubt I'd be on the intardnets talking about him behind his back.
3. I would also have refused to just BELIEVE what was told me about the 'old friend'. I would instead hold judgment in reserve. The other guy may have misunderstood what the 'old friend' said. You know, 'charity hopeth all things' and those pesky old testament laws against taking up a reproafh against your neighbor or listening to tale-bearers. So I would instead decide that the one friend probably misunderstood what the 'old friend' was saying or doing, and would meet the old friend and keep an open mind and open heart.
IF the old friend was trying to straighten me out, I would cherish the fact I had a friend who was serious enough about God to at least be zealous for God and concerned about my spiritual well being. Who needs friends who could care less if you go to hell?
And if was trying to straighten me out on 'house church', either I'd convert him to the truth, or we'd at the least part amicably with our respective views in tact. And if he was gonna just be mean and nasty about it, then I would pray for him and move on with my life.
I hope I would NOT be on AFF posting about what I THOUGHT his motives were in the absence of anything but hearsay.
Hearsay is hearsay, regardless of who says it...
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