I am sorry Blain. I have met manipulators before. They are very good at helping people who obviously are vulnerable. They know the right words to say. The difficulty always appears when they are challenged about something they do not like. You see how they react.
It is aggressive and unsympathetic, accusatory, and where emotions of reconciliation should be, it is actually the opposite.
A man who also says his mission was to break me, is not a stable mature man, in any regard.
Now the problem is this detracts from the subject under discussion, which is the nature of salvation and can we walk away from Christ. My personal experience is if we do not apply forgiveness to our fellow believers, we build up such a log of hurts, it is difficult to see the Lord working through a situation. It is why church can be a struggle or cc, where we hope simple sharing of faith and experience is enough to encourage others.
What interests me most at the moment is how good fruitful christians can get distracted by emotional difficulties of their past and present and stop doing work that really mattered for the Kingdom.
And on the hyper-grace front, they will continue to rabbit on there hobby horses and in 5 years another odd theology will come up, and the same group will leap on this band wagon. Love, life, repentance and obedience is just too boring for them.
It is aggressive and unsympathetic, accusatory, and where emotions of reconciliation should be, it is actually the opposite.
A man who also says his mission was to break me, is not a stable mature man, in any regard.
Now the problem is this detracts from the subject under discussion, which is the nature of salvation and can we walk away from Christ. My personal experience is if we do not apply forgiveness to our fellow believers, we build up such a log of hurts, it is difficult to see the Lord working through a situation. It is why church can be a struggle or cc, where we hope simple sharing of faith and experience is enough to encourage others.
What interests me most at the moment is how good fruitful christians can get distracted by emotional difficulties of their past and present and stop doing work that really mattered for the Kingdom.
And on the hyper-grace front, they will continue to rabbit on there hobby horses and in 5 years another odd theology will come up, and the same group will leap on this band wagon. Love, life, repentance and obedience is just too boring for them.
