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02-06-2011, 12:29 AM
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Re: >>>"It's All Just a Game."
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Originally Posted by OnTheFritz
Inspiring and thought provoking thread. I think I missed it before as well.
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I also missed this last year.
Excellent post! 
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Common sense is genius dressed in working clothes.
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
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02-06-2011, 08:05 AM
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Re: >>>"It's All Just a Game."
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Originally Posted by EA
Good point.
Realizing this makes one a bit more tolerant, and a lot less apt to pronounce judgement too quickly.
In my youth, I was very legalistic. I wouldn't even let my infant daughter wear pants or shorts at home. I felt like that was an inconsistency I couldn't live with. In my mind, if pants were an abomination, age and geography shouldn't matter.
While I still believe consistency is important, I now have the benefit of years of hindsight. In short, I was truly ignorant.
It wasn't just that I expected my own family to live that way - I judged others, who didn't live like us - very harshly.
During that time, two ministers tried to help me see how faulty my theology and logic was. I rejected their efforts and wrote them off. I was sure they were soft on the message.
Look at me now. While I live much the same way, my view of God, and my attude, have changed dramatically.
I was a jerk to them. I was wrong. But there is nothing they could have done to help me because I was convinced of my "rightness." Only the gentle passage of time, combined with the love of a merciful and forgiving God, could change me.
I see so many young men zealously defending traditions they know nothing of, and it makes me cringe. I see myself in them, and I want to help.
But I have found that most are unwilling to receive what I have to say. They will have to learn the same way so many of us learned - through time, study and spiritual enlightenment.
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I appreciate your transparency. You never know who might read this and be helped by it.
EDIT NOTE: I just realized this is a year old but it is still good and my comment remains the same.
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"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"
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02-06-2011, 01:50 PM
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Re: >>>"It's All Just a Game."
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Originally Posted by EA
Good point.
Realizing this makes one a bit more tolerant, and a lot less apt to pronounce judgement too quickly.
In my youth, I was very legalistic. I wouldn't even let my infant daughter wear pants or shorts at home. I felt like that was an inconsistency I couldn't live with. In my mind, if pants were an abomination, age and geography shouldn't matter.
While I still believe consistency is important, I now have the benefit of years of hindsight. In short, I was truly ignorant.
It wasn't just that I expected my own family to live that way - I judged others, who didn't live like us - very harshly.
During that time, two ministers tried to help me see how faulty my theology and logic was. I rejected their efforts and wrote them off. I was sure they were soft on the message.
Look at me now. While I live much the same way, my view of God, and my attude, have changed dramatically.
I was a jerk to them. I was wrong. But there is nothing they could have done to help me because I was convinced of my "rightness." Only the gentle passage of time, combined with the love of a merciful and forgiving God, could change me.
I see so many young men zealously defending traditions they know nothing of, and it makes me cringe. I see myself in them, and I want to help.
But I have found that most are unwilling to receive what I have to say. They will have to learn the same way so many of us learned - through time, study and spiritual enlightenment.
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This is the story of many of us.
I blush and cringe when I think of how judgmental I used to be. I was so arrogant at times.....I'm so thankful for God's mercy.
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