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"Jesus preached to people in HELL!"
theophilus:
A personal opinion lacking scriptural backup. More can be said. You should follow the Jehovah's Witnesses example of going door to door with their message. It's a better approach. I've taken the message of the gospel in rural areas in a third-world country where people couldn't even read or write. We would go house to house down the dusty roads. People always welcomed us. But we never antagonized anybody or showed them how wrong they were. You could bore anybody to death with the cleverest of arguments without ever making a dent on their hardened heart.
John from Kentucky:
Many things said in this thread make me grind my spiritual teeth. Just false Christian slop.
The billions of Christians alive today do not follow Jesus. Christians in name only. Don't follow the example of any of them.
Some facts:
While in the flesh, Jesus never converted a single person. No one was converted until after Jesus' death, at Pentecost, when they received God's Spirit.
Jesus only spoke to the multitudes in parables, to hide His teachings, so that none would understand Him.
Jesus said only the Father could drag a person to Jesus. None could come to Jesus on their own, by their own choice.
Now if Jesus couldn't do any of the above, how can I? I'm not in the salvation business. Jesus is Savior.
So I do not witness for Jesus, or any of the other crazy stuff that the mainline Christians or the funnymentalists do.
I do observe what they do, then I do the opposite. I don't attend church, or go to their bible studies. I do not speak like them. I do not do any of their so-called "good works". I do not witness for the lord, or any of the other crap they do. Away with all that nonsense!
Jesus says, Come out of her MY people. Come out does not mean go in and associate with their false ways.
Let Jesus be Jesus. He'll save everyone, eventually, at their appointed time. Jesus will save them. That's what He does.
Kat:
It is not for any of us to judge what the other should or shouldn't do, it is the Spirit that lead any of us in what to do.
Eph 4:11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
v. 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
v. 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
If the Spirit puts it on your heart then you will speak this truth to whom so ever God wills, it's all according to His will.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
Dennis Vogel:
Agree John but:
1Pe 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
Rene:
--- Quote from: Dennis Vogel on March 06, 2014, 09:22:03 PM ---Agree John but:
1Pe 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
--- End quote ---
So yes, there is a time to profess our faith, but we should not be doing it out of an attitude of arrogance or "self righteousness" so as to show others how "holy" we are.
Eccl. 3:1,7 - "To all things there is an appointed time.......vs.7 "a time to keep silence, and a time to speak." (GNV)
1Cor. 13:1 - "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal." (ESV)
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