This Makes #2 on the List, REALLY???

[Sasha]

Originally Posted by jfrog

I don't think you understand my stance. I'm all for judging each and every one of those sinners. I think it's right to judge. I'm most against hypocrisy. Saying dont judge anyone including homosexuals and then making excuses for why it's okay to judge pedophiles is not right IMO.

I think that while we are both talking about fruit, I'm talking apples and you, oranges. I'm opposed to any and all sin, however, I admit that I sin daily.

I think it's one thing to judge someone on a particular sin or undesirable trait. It's another to judge sinners for being...sinners. We are all sinners.

I guess a lot of how I feel stems from how I was raised. I was raised believing that if I hung around sinners, I would turn into one. As it turned out, I sinned a lot more by hanging out with my Christian friends because, well, I was judgmental. Yes, don't hang around that girl because she wears pants and her mom smokes, but I can hang around the Christian girl who has long hair and wears skirts even though she tells me how many boys she has had sex with this year.

As it turns out, I found out that I can have sinner friends without partaking of their sin. I have also found out that just because someone preaches against sin doesn't mean they don't have skeletons in their closet.

[jfrog]

Originally Posted by Sasha

I think that while we are both talking about fruit, I'm talking apples and you, oranges. I'm opposed to any and all sin, however, I admit that I sin daily.

I think it's one thing to judge someone on a particular sin or undesirable trait. It's another to judge sinners for being...sinners. We are all sinners.

I guess a lot of how I feel stems from how I was raised. I was raised believing that if I hung around sinners, I would turn into one. As it turned out, I sinned a lot more by hanging out with my Christian friends because, well, I was judgmental. Yes, don't hang around that girl because she wears pants and her mom smokes, but I can hang around the Christian girl who has long hair and wears skirts even though she tells me how many boys she has had sex with this year.

As it turns out, I found out that I can have sinner friends without partaking of their sin. I have also found out that just because someone preaches against sin doesn't mean they don't have skeletons in their closet.

Well said.

[Abiding Now]

Originally Posted by Dichotomy Girl

Ok, so I'm wasting time on Facebook, and It's telling me to join various groups, one of which is an Apostolic Group, curious as to why it would tell me that, I clink on it, and it turns out that I have friends who are in the group. Anyway, the group calls itself "One God Apostolic Pentecostals" and describes itself as such:



Really??? 1st one God who is Jesus, 2nd Traditional Marriage, followed by baptism, tongues and separation....

I don't know why, but this truly truly shocked me. What's will they add next? Hating Obamacare?

It's one thing to have a conviction, but another completely to define yourself (and others) by your conviction. And to actually make it 2nd, like your stance on gay marriage is more important in the definition of an Apostolic Christian, then baptism or the Holy Ghost.

I feel strangely disappointed in...I don't know...whoever wrote the list, or affirmed it....or something.....I don't know it just makes me sad.

IF the order is correct, who knows what that church has been bombarded with that would cause them to post it like this.