“I boast of the grace of Christ and get called on the enemy of grace, which is pride?”
I didn’t call you “the enemy of grace”, I said you can come of as one who likes to lecture others in a snobbish way. I guess another word would be condescending.
“What do you want me to be like, the luke warm Christians you walk among?”
Actually, I don’t walk among the “lukewarm” at this Church anymore. The Pastoral staff were becoming Lukewarm in their message. Too afraid to tackle any politically correct tough issues of the day. Their philosophy was: “We have to tell them what we’re for, not what we’re against.” I guess they missed the studies of the Apostle Paul’s Letters at their respective theological seminaries.
Actually, a look in the mirror is good for all of us.
Based on the description, they may have been closer to the Truth than you think. Though they may not have been as emphatic about the salutory effects of intense grace as I.
The only purpose of warning of the bad is so that it can be overcome for the sake of grasping the good again. Not so you can make those dirty rotten sinners squirm in an amusing spectacle before you.
I think it is YOU who have the overweening attitude, frankly. You’re the know it all grown up. I came into the Kingdom learning to be a child in spirit again.
“We have to tell them what we’re for, not what we’re against”
Hmmm, the problem in modern American churches in a nut shell. You have tell them both. You can describe light, but you need form to help describe its function. When we stand for the light of Christ, we have to teach what his light shows as good and evil. We have to teach both what we stand for and what we stand against!