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The OP was about being called a bigot. A little further down the back story showed up where the one being called a bigot was being "neighborly" by preaching the gospel to a neighbor, but the neighbor took great offense and then hassled big time.
I know some of my neighbors, but not all of them. No way in the world am I ever getting in that position because I don't share the gospel to strangers, unless something happens to open the way for that. (That seldom happens.) I share with people who get to know me and trust me enough to share.
And yet, reread this thread from the beginning for everyone's reaction. 90% is all about how justified we are to not be called bigots. How the world is out to get us. How much we suffer for the cause, when all along the cause has become nothing but a sales pitch to strangers.
All I'm asking is for people to try out the shoes of the neighbor before becoming self-righteous about distributing a sales pitch.
The main reason we are being called bigots (if we ever are called bigots) is because we're preaching at without the whole "love our neighbors as ourselves" approach is even started.
The exact same thing happened here. So few ever found out the back story because so many are reading the first post and then telling how to do it right -- aka "my way." Preached at.
I know some of my neighbors, but not all of them. No way in the world am I ever getting in that position because I don't share the gospel to strangers, unless something happens to open the way for that. (That seldom happens.) I share with people who get to know me and trust me enough to share.
And yet, reread this thread from the beginning for everyone's reaction. 90% is all about how justified we are to not be called bigots. How the world is out to get us. How much we suffer for the cause, when all along the cause has become nothing but a sales pitch to strangers.
All I'm asking is for people to try out the shoes of the neighbor before becoming self-righteous about distributing a sales pitch.
The main reason we are being called bigots (if we ever are called bigots) is because we're preaching at without the whole "love our neighbors as ourselves" approach is even started.
The exact same thing happened here. So few ever found out the back story because so many are reading the first post and then telling how to do it right -- aka "my way." Preached at.
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Even if you're sweet people can become furious when you share the Word. My mother is really kind, but my granddad was 96 and had to hear how to get saved. Jesus loves you sweetie wasn't working. It was like a lion's den she said, but it doesn't matter how people respond, we just kept praying and he did get saved in the end.
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Is what you did the same thing Chuck did?
You know what's missing?
A. We weren't told what lead up to that point.
B. Too many assume the lady was nuts, (even possessed came up), without knowing what happened up to that point.
My first question didn't make sense because you immediately assumed things that cannot be assumed! Everyone has morals, even the most wicked, and yet we are all assuming here which morals are right based on the last half of a story.
You know what's missing?
A. We weren't told what lead up to that point.
B. Too many assume the lady was nuts, (even possessed came up), without knowing what happened up to that point.
My first question didn't make sense because you immediately assumed things that cannot be assumed! Everyone has morals, even the most wicked, and yet we are all assuming here which morals are right based on the last half of a story.
I've looked at this post a few times,
and tho I don't like it, and it seems like a contradiction,
I think, that is I THINK it is his attempt at sarcasm,
and he's not saying that anyone should be burned,
but he's accusing some christians of having an attitude
that if anyone disagrees with them,
THEY (the disagree-ers) should be burned (by said christians).
Hey, he's pretty much wrong either way, tho. Lol.
I just thought I'd toss my 2 cents in.
Normally, Dude, I would have been crushing it...
Utah's my buddy, and I love magenta, and I AM
with them on their replies, but today, I'm
kinda walkin' on a cloud of love with Jesus...
(what's that song? I'm walkin' on sunshine?
Well, I'm walkin' on SONshine!)
(props to Sonflower for that thought)
(what a cool christian chick nickname! )
(Are we still allowed to say that?
)
So, anyway, I'm not feeling confrontational.♡.
(check with me later, lol)
and tho I don't like it, and it seems like a contradiction,
I think, that is I THINK it is his attempt at sarcasm,
and he's not saying that anyone should be burned,
but he's accusing some christians of having an attitude
that if anyone disagrees with them,
THEY (the disagree-ers) should be burned (by said christians).
Hey, he's pretty much wrong either way, tho. Lol.
I just thought I'd toss my 2 cents in.
Normally, Dude, I would have been crushing it...
Utah's my buddy, and I love magenta, and I AM
with them on their replies, but today, I'm
kinda walkin' on a cloud of love with Jesus...
(what's that song? I'm walkin' on sunshine?
Well, I'm walkin' on SONshine!)
(props to Sonflower for that thought)
(what a cool christian chick nickname! )
(Are we still allowed to say that?
)So, anyway, I'm not feeling confrontational.♡.
(check with me later, lol)
I put myself in the neighbor's shoes and I still don't see the need for the magnitude of her reaction. How many of us would start throwing things, attack the person over the phone, and get our friends to attack the person on the phone? I've had more than one person (who just met me) share a false faith with me with good intent without the situation escalating on my part. I could see someone being a little ticked off (and even that I wouldn't be, but somebody might), but in an uncontrolled rage...that's a little much.
There really is something about the Gospel that has the potential to set something off in people like nothing else.
There really is something about the Gospel that has the potential to set something off in people like nothing else.
Jesus Christ was God in flesh. His ministry, it seems to me, was to convince us to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, minds, and souls, and love out neighbors as ourselves.
Perhaps some people believe that if they obey these two commandments, they are on the right track, whether they are Christians or not. In other words, you and I know Jesus Christ was God in flesh, but maybe Jews don't know that. Even so, if they do exactly what Jesus taught us to do, are we any better than they?
Perhaps some people believe that if they obey these two commandments, they are on the right track, whether they are Christians or not. In other words, you and I know Jesus Christ was God in flesh, but maybe Jews don't know that. Even so, if they do exactly what Jesus taught us to do, are we any better than they?
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When making a decision about right and wrong, I can ask, "What is right?" and "What is best?"
I sometimes have to make decisions and there are no "right" answers.
Jesus made a lot of claims in John12:44. Believing in Him was believing in God, to see Him was seeing God, came as the light of the world, those who believe don't abide in darkness, came to save the world, those who don't believe will be judged, claimed His teaching didn't originate with Him and His words are life everlasting.
So when we judge Jesus then we're really judging ourselves because:
Jesus said,"He who rejects Me, and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him: this word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day" (John 12:48)
I sometimes have to make decisions and there are no "right" answers.
Jesus made a lot of claims in John12:44. Believing in Him was believing in God, to see Him was seeing God, came as the light of the world, those who believe don't abide in darkness, came to save the world, those who don't believe will be judged, claimed His teaching didn't originate with Him and His words are life everlasting.
So when we judge Jesus then we're really judging ourselves because:
Jesus said,"He who rejects Me, and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him: this word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day" (John 12:48)