Pope: Complaining to God and Fighting with Him is a Form of Praying

Well, frankly the Holy Spirit doesn’t seem, to me, to want to take any other view.

I’m a sinner still, and I might not have everything right. I have for a long time accepted that being in the church is a matter of the promise of the Lord, rather than a matter of the choice of men (except the initial acceptance of salvation). Yes that is a very evangelical, Baptist-looking view, no surprise. That’s the circle in which I have been most of my Christian life. But this also tells me that no matter HOW bad a set of official doctrine might get, it does not nullify the promise if the beliefs unto salvation are still there. But if the situation gets too bad, it can knock out the lampstand, so to speak. So I can’t be going around ranting that the Roman Catholic church has no Christians, or even that if a Roman Catholic is a Christian, that person is fated to walk out of the Roman Catholic church. When pride of denomination engulfed the Protestant movement and other sectors of earthly Christendom, this put a brake on any possibility of reconciliation. This will have to go away, and a colossal blessing of the Lord which clarifies that it really is all about Him seems to me the only thing that will make it go away.

Francis may be the last pope. Reconciliation may be that close. We need to hang onto our hats because the spiritual winds will be quite intense.

"Sometimes the answer to “why can’t You, or didn’t You, bless me in such and such a way” is: you weren’t ready."

I wasn't looking for a blessing. I was reacting to the death of my 15 year old son. It has been a hard road, but I am finally able to thank Him for letting me have him as long as I did.

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