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Unity, Liberty, and Charity

Posted in Liberty, Quotes, Unity, tagged on September 20, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him … Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. – Romans 14:3, 19

There was controversy in the early church. Some participated in activities others thought unacceptable. Participants thought the abstainers were prudes, abstainers thought the participants were sinners.

The Apostle Paul called both to focus on Christ not themselves or each other. We don’t have to agree on everything to love God together; and we don’t have to worship the same way or at the same place to worship the same God. We can each trust God will change each other as we, both, grow in Christ.

All Christian churches are 95% in agreement in faith and practice. They all confess Jesus is LORD and believe God has raised him, bodily, from the dead.

There’s an old saying attributed to an ancient theologian, St. Augustine:

In essentials UNITY,
In non essentials LIBERTY,
In all things, CHARITY.1

-fritz

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God Lost in a Crowd?

Posted in Faith, Quotes, Woody Allen, tagged , on September 17, 2010| Leave a Comment »

“Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?” – Rabshakeh (701 BC) Isaiah 36:18

“[All places of worship are]places that people go to retell nonsense stories … They try to telepathically communicate with their imaginary friend.” – Bill Maher (09/14/10) The Tonight Show

“To me,there’s no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They’re all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.” Woody Allen (09/15/10) New York Times

Godless people have always wanted to lose God in the crowd and portray him as debile as all the other gods, religions, and faiths.

Hezekiah, wasn’t buying it, nor should we!

“Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries, And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.” – Hezekiah (Isaiah 37:18-20)

Don’t let the ungodly set the stage, we don’t all worship the same God – only ours is alive. All roads don’t lead to heaven – ours is a narrow path. God doesn’t communicate telepathically – he writes in the heavens, on the pages of history, and in the hearts of the humble.

– fritz

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The Atheist’s Prayer

Posted in Dallas Willard, Quotes on September 10, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Multitudes of people have come to a full knowledge of God because in a moment of complete hopelessness they prayed “The Atheist’s Prayer” or something like it: “O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul.” When that is the true cry of the heart, of the inmost spirit of the individual, who has no longer any hope other than God, God hears and responds without fail.

– Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart, pg 161

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