Posted on 09/24/2015 3:33:25 PM PDT by NetAddicted
These so called world leaders have been infected with the socialist liberal progressive cancer that feeds us dribble on imaginary scams like global warming that will redistribute our hard earned money. Islam has the same teachings as chritianity, we must take in refugees, scolds us a on guns when isis is lopping chritain heads off and theres silence, the one ecredible noble prize since giving to the imposter for breathing is now downgraded to a prize from the crackerjacks box, defence of freedom means the infultration of sharia law and islam in America, cair is trying to take out ben carson for speaking the truth
I think evangelism could be a lot stronger than it is. Far be it from me to not, like Paul, be grateful to God that any message at all is being presented; the Lord can arrange for holes to be filled even in the case of what the bible itself calls “selfish motives.”
I hope I can be indulged as having some wisdom of experience with a perspective of over 25 years of faith after even more years of unbelief and watching myself bumble and fumble and fail and agonize because of going after faith in a self centered way, and on the way watch others fall shorter than they can as well. That is an exceedingly hard demon to slay. It takes an industrial strength love to slay it and that can only be had by being willing to absorb it from the Lord. But then it becomes evident that love really is the name of the game. As, ironically, I knew instinctively when a child, but the people I knew who had the most influence on me had harsh, bitter attitudes and that began to prevail on me because I had no Christ to appeal to with my soul.
Maybe I am still am too eager in some areas than I ought to be.
And I submit I have scriptural support for this “pecking order” of love over all other aspects of faith: 1 Cor 13.
This does not, of course, mean that anything that comes down the pike calling itself love in fact IS love. There is some shallow thinking to that effect, but if one keeps calm one can easily counter it by pointing out where the hate, usually vicious, is in such illusions.
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