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To: Norm Lenhart

I have similar views. I have friends (or perhaps frequent aquaintances) who I know or suspect to be adulterers, drug users, tax cheats, and my second string barber is a homosexual, etc. If I started limiting my social circle to saints I’d rapidly become a hermit. That said, this is just one more shred of evidence to indicate we don’t need Mitt in the White House is there is a better alternative.


89 posted on 02/26/2012 5:47:20 AM PST by MSF BU
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To: MSF BU

You need to find a new circle of friends. Or limit your extra curricular activity to the point that you do nit need to associate yourself with the ones you find distasteful.

I have no homosexual acquaintances I keep as regular company, nor does any ever get near my hair with anything sharp.

There are neither no tax cheaters, drug addicts, or adulterers, or fornicators among the circles I run.

I would rather live as a hermit than keep company with such individuals.

That being said, I do keep company with some who live lives that are wrong, but I do so in the hope of winning them to Christ and they know that I disagree with their lifestyle and pray they will change. However, I do not keep regular company with them outside of reaching out to them with the gospel. If they wish to hang with me and my friends, they are invited, but they know that they will do so at our conveniance and must act in accordance with our, or should I say the desires of Christ.

So because of my spreading the word, I do have many friends who used to live such lives, but have either repented, or at least they are in the process of becoming men good and decent men and women of Christ who will live lives acceptable to God.

All my friends understand the failures of men, but they know what God does and does not condone. If there is one who stumbles among us we pray for him and do our best to get them on the straight and narrow. If they continue to fail, or refuse the help needed to walk that straight line, then I shall distance myself from them as I would anyone who prefers living in the dark.


90 posted on 02/26/2012 9:10:03 AM PST by OneVike ((Just a Christian waiting to go home) internet ID:: impeachobamanow)
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