JIS,
Thank you so much for your encouragement. I do not feel as alone with this hermeneutic on Christian Chat as I have in most churches I have attended.
Frankly, I think many Christians prefer singing, praying, story-telling and entertaining sermons over systematic Bible study because they require less mental work.
I believe God allows suffering in order to teach folks their need of His heaven, but it is better for them to learn this before a tragic event occurs rather than during it.
I know that in my own experience growing up in a Christian environment until high school, I was rather complacent about witnessing and naive regarding what lay outside my bubble, but I was chagrined to find out that my favorite HS English teacher was a former minister turned agnostic, and a missionary's daughter became an atheist, which made me realize that the weekly evangelistic sermons were not adequately teaching the need for perseverance--and that motivated me to begin studying the Bible through for myself.
Do you relate to this?
Thank you so much for your encouragement. I do not feel as alone with this hermeneutic on Christian Chat as I have in most churches I have attended.
Frankly, I think many Christians prefer singing, praying, story-telling and entertaining sermons over systematic Bible study because they require less mental work.
I believe God allows suffering in order to teach folks their need of His heaven, but it is better for them to learn this before a tragic event occurs rather than during it.
I know that in my own experience growing up in a Christian environment until high school, I was rather complacent about witnessing and naive regarding what lay outside my bubble, but I was chagrined to find out that my favorite HS English teacher was a former minister turned agnostic, and a missionary's daughter became an atheist, which made me realize that the weekly evangelistic sermons were not adequately teaching the need for perseverance--and that motivated me to begin studying the Bible through for myself.
Do you relate to this?
Jesus and the apostles read and followed the OT the God of the OT is the same God of the NT and He says He changes not. This poster said the NT replaced the OT and that is not true, it is a continuation of God's holy Word, that He said is the path to guide us Psa 119:10-5
Isa 8:20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Isa 8:20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.