TRYING TO HARD

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Wootie

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I noticed that alot of people in the world are trying to hard to teach the word of God to others in order to get them saved. Why would I want to be like someone who is always telling me what I should be doing and when I look at their life all I see are works? In scripture it says " Faith without works is dead" ,
and I agree with that but I see too many people who are not living what they are teaching. That creates a double standard which I feel turns people away from the word. I live as I teach and then if they deny the Lord it is not because of secondary standards created by myself. This world operates off of a visual mechanism and that's how we should approach them.
 
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Ricke

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Hi Wootie

Can you give us a couple of quick examples of what you are referring to as a "Turn off"?? Just asking'....
 
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charisenexcelcis

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If we confess that the Holy Spirit is at work in our life (and I do) then we ought to have the fruit of the Holy Spirit in our life.
 
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jangel

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I’ve seen a lot of people who are so good in Scriptures, but when you look on their lives, you will be disappointed but as Hebrews 12:2 says, Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith…
We human failed, and possibility... we’ll stumble also if we will fix our eyes to these people that’s why I’m holding that verse. I’ll accept what they say as long as it will help my spiritual life and with regard on how they live on it, let God be their judge.
 
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AnandaHya

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we are called to be worshipers of God FIRST and workers afterwards. people have forgotten the importance of prayer. God does not want us to make and do endless things FOR Him. He like a loving Father wants to spend time WITH us.


The principal cause of my leanness and unfruitfulness is owing to an unaccountable backwardness to pray. I can write or read or converse or hear with a ready heart; but prayer is more spiritual and inward than any of these, and the more spiritual any duty is the more my carnal heart is apt to start from it. Prayer and patience and faith are never disappointed. I have long since learned that if ever I was to be a minister faith and prayer must make me one. When I can find my heart in frame and liberty for prayer, everything else is comparatively easy. -- Richard Newton

http://www.raptureready.com/resource/bounds/pp6.htm
 
zone

zone

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Jun 13, 2010
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on this subject, i was recently reminded by Redster, and this applies to me as one called later in my life:

i was never convinced of anything by the lives of christians before i was washed. they looked stupid and square to me.

i was convinced when i was drawn to Jesus and heard the Gospel message (Law and Gospel) by the Power of The Holy Spirit working His Commission in my life. no upstanding lives around me meant anything when i was blind and dead - i thought i was living right. i didn't relate to the Christian life until i discovered i was one.

that's my story.
 
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