Enough red herrings already. Ask yourself one simple question. If you died tonight would you wake in heaven? Not an I hope so but a real answer with full assurance. Do you have the witness of the Holy Spirit with your spirit that you are a blood bought born again Christian? Can you point to a time when you asked Christ to save you and forgive you of your sins?
Stop hiding behind all the pomp of Christian jargon and get down in the dirt at the foot of the cross of Christ. You do no favor to God because you claim to be a Christian.
Do you covet the admiration and praise of men or will you share the humility and shame of Christ? The journey of true discipleship is often one paved with suffering and tribulation.
Poor old mother Theresa toiled long and hard for needy undesirable children but never professed a personal salvation in Christ. To do all she did and to reject Christ as Savior. Jesus asked what shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
The fields are white unto harvest but the laborers are few.
For the cause of Christ
Roger
Stop hiding behind all the pomp of Christian jargon and get down in the dirt at the foot of the cross of Christ. You do no favor to God because you claim to be a Christian.
Do you covet the admiration and praise of men or will you share the humility and shame of Christ? The journey of true discipleship is often one paved with suffering and tribulation.
Poor old mother Theresa toiled long and hard for needy undesirable children but never professed a personal salvation in Christ. To do all she did and to reject Christ as Savior. Jesus asked what shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
The fields are white unto harvest but the laborers are few.
For the cause of Christ
Roger
My words sail across your head because you have an idea of me in your mind. It is you who are using christian jargon and not me. But answer this simple question. Why do so many fail to find life yet appear to find Jesus through the 4 spiritual laws? Why did Billy Graham have so many come forward at his missions, yet the churches are emptying.
The start is only the start. But the church got lost in roles, in obedience, in doing the right thing rather than being real. My father went to church all his life but would never talk about what he believed, too personal. My mother was so disconnected emotionally she did not know what she felt about anything, yet did what was expected of her.
If I met Jesus tonight, night, I would bow in humble adoration and love, to finally met my Lord and Saviour who has captured my heart and soul and rescued me from sin and destruction. His words burn in me, like something alive. I see things now I did not understand years ago. There is nothing I have done that makes me worthy, it is Jesus alone who is worthy, who has purchased me. But I am a new creation, whose heart desires to do good things.
But this somehow causes you to stumble, because no-one could be that happy, and praising and self assured.
So that fact our experience of the Lord is so different, how does that make you feel? Why does love knock at your door but you cannot answer. What has closed you down so much? Is that what faith is to you to run away from a situation you could not face? I am a friend not your enemy, but you appear to think I am your enemy. Why is that?