We are not to go out of our way to pick fights and be Jerks For Jesus, but need to realize that if we are living for Him, opposition and division will always follow.
We are not to go out of our way to pick fights and be Jerks For Jesus, but need to realize that if we are living for Him, opposition and division will always follow.
Do we gather to ask of the Lord for mere provision of the things of the flesh? Or do we gather that his kingdom would come?
Jude admonishes us in his Plutonium-charged weapons-grade epistle that the false prophets are people who “Speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.”
I have seen many of us theological types take doctrine and distort it by magnifying one truth and explaining away another A theologically astute fleshly christian, can often do far more damage than an ignorant fleshly christian.
Most people watching a 5 minute bio on Gilbert Gottfried would never presume they know everything about him, yet we do this with doctrine constantly.
I have nothing against pouring over scriptures and theological writings, in order to rightly divide the word, but we cannot stop with knowing, we must proceed to doing.
Do you do evil? Then there may be a question as to whether or not you are among those to whom the Lord looks.
In American Christianity we place such emphasis on ability, and education while giving humility mere lip service.
You see, if Jesus has brought his sword to bear against me, as a member of his body, and I deflect it with the shield of pride, the sword of truth that I hold in my hand will become flimsy and pointless.
We are told to present our bodies as living sacrifices to God. Do we give God our best, or do we give him the rest?