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Re: UPC District board suing church in MS.?
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Originally Posted by aak1972
Some of these folks like me have way to many memories and ties to the building. My grandfather had to put his name on the mortgage as one of the board members. People died building that church. So in my opinion they have every right to disagree with some egotistical man from California who has been in this city for 4 years. That building has been a symbol of the UPC not only in our city but throughout the entire south. So I think if you will not fight for something that you put forth blood sweat and tears into and something that is tangible you will be to spineless to fight for anything.
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Thanks for calling me spineless. LOL!!!!
It often takes more courage to let something be than to get into the fight. Human nature is to take what is yours, defend what is yours, and to destroy your enemies.
Defending your family or children or people you love is one thing, but to defend a "thing"? It isn't worth disobeying the Word. Material things ultimately do NOT matter in the larger (eternal) scheme of things. I do not believe that God calls it spineless to walk away from something material, even if it is something you built with your own hands, in order to remain in accordance with His commandments.
We have our human nature, and we have God's Word. When the two disagree, we should give God's Word precedence, and call it courageous to do so. 
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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