Difficult Christians
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who are you to say that God's answer to your prayer to "reveal His truth according to His word" would manifest it self the way you would want it to? ( In a productive conversation that you moderate and approve of?) Would the answer to your prayer be any less from God, if God sent that answer through your "hall debaters?"Know there are always going to be people out there who like to push their opinions on others. When I was in Bible college there was a group of students who.gathered after chapel every day to discuss that days particular speaker and what was incorrect about their message, doctrine, etc. I called them “hallway debaters”. They wanted to argue every point and push their opinions without showing the courtesy of listening to others in a conversation. Through the years I have learned to discern the difference between those who truly want to discuss ideas and those who just want to argue for the sake of hearing themselves talk, and I promptly excuse myself from the conversation because I consider it a display of pride and therefore a waste of my time. I ask God to reveal the truth according to His Word (to all of us) and move on. Who knows when the time truth will be revealed and a productive conversation can take place? He does. Until then? Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling and trust God that they will eventually do the same.
Don’t let people get you caught up in trying to figure out, “exactly how many angels CAN dance on the head of a pin?” That’s sort of what they’re doing when they debate just to hear themselves talk. Sounds a bit cynical? Yes, I know..
May the Lord be with you in your future ministry and may you always be a vessel of honor for Him,
Avery
Paul in 1 cor 12:12 tells us we are all different members of the same body. In that we all have different functions and serve the same body in different ways. Paul specifically says that one part of the body should not judge another just because we function differently and serve differently.
for example Example, if not for hall way debaters like Martain Luther, William Tyndale, John Wycliffe, and Jan Hus. We'd all still be catholic paying out out of purgatory. Do you think it was a point of sin/pride that these men took a stand against the church? Because church clergy sure did in their day.
Because, All of these men scrutinized established church doctrine and debated and question the foundations of standard church practices and belief. without those "hall way debates." God's truth according to His word would have never come to light.
1Thess 5:21 tells us to "Question ALL things and to Hold on to what is good." This command does not mean for us to only question the questionable it means that we are also to question the foundational and to hold on to what is Good.
