|
Re: Internet Evangelism
Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Paths
I have read numerous posts where folks say that an Internet forum can't/shouldn't be able to change a person's views on doctrine, standards, etc. We're just here for the fellowship.
HOGWASH!
Folks want to allow Branamites, two god proponents, anti-standards, trinitarian sympathizers, etc. to voice their opinions, while cheering them on and then say that a person that is seduced by the false doctrine is "weak" or "didn't really believe it".
Folks, words mean something, words are powerful, words can and do change people's lives and YOU are aware of it.
There is a mentality that is published that "I used to be under bondage to a preacher, but look at me now... I'm free from standards" and the posters start their applause for another one that has embarked on the slippery slope and is making the transition to liberal land.
Please don't think that everyone is naive and act like there is not a thrust to proselytize.
|
No doubt there are some who can be influenced but generally only people who already have questions about whatever the subject is.
I always like it how you cons characterize those of us opposed to corporate extra biblical legaism as having said things like "I used to be under bondage to a preacher, but look at me now....".
You know good and well that this is not the attitude or statement of 98% of libs. You just want to put forth an extreme and incorrectly characterize a position.
This is the same old schtick as when you cons used to always use Tammy Faye Bakker and Jan Crouch as examples of women with makeup when 99.9% of women in the world would not be caught dead must less alive with makeup like that!
__________________
"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
|
Threaded Mode
