Hopefully not alcoholics who don’t need the temptation, (we had other church groups where they could explore).
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Secular places are exactly where Jesus would be.
Mathew 11:19
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.”
Don’t worry, no one is asking you to go. We don’t push people out of their comfort zone. This group was for people who have the freedom in Christ to question, explore, and to have their own thoughts, their own relationship with Christ.
As opposed to metaphorically living in a cage of ripped out Bible pages glued to the wall, where some Christians hide so afraid of being wrong, afraid of crossing a line and having God’s wrath unleashed upon them.
Children should feel loved and safe, not terrified of abusive parents. And the children of God are no different. There comes a point where you should leave an abusive house and find the Parent who loves you. Where you love yourself enough and know you deserve better experiences. Healing, encouraging experiences.
All of the Christian churches claim Christ. And they all preach the scripture. But…
Matthew 7:21-23 (ESV)
I Never Knew You
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Not every Church embodies Christ.
But how can this be? How can a Church be so decieved?
Mathew 13
13 This is why I speak to them in parables:
“Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15 For this people’s heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’[a]
Anybody can quote scripture. They can proclaim to know all the secrets hidden within. But LOVE is the KEY to the whole thing. How many times have I witnessed it (LOVE and RIGHT BEHAVIOR) being dissed and dismissed on this website and forsaken? Or confused for something else?
The detractors of the LOVE Gospel call it names to ridicule it… How does it go? A warm fuzzy Gospel? A social service Gospel? A social Justice Gospel? A Gospel that puts the needs of others first? As if God would disapprove. In the same manner that Christians were called Christian as an insult.
Some Christians think that all they need is to praise God for the murder of His Son. And if they speak the name of Jesus enough, throw out enough Scripture, then they are right with God. No wonder they fear hell fire and damnation so much. Not knowing the Word of Christ, or that what he actually taught matters too.
Mathew 23:15
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
(A Jew is born a Jew… Do they actually go looking for converts? Pharisees believed in the resurrection… So one would be wise to wonder who was Christ speaking to?)
Wisdom proves itself in the end.
The weeds are the lies, the truth is the wheat, and all will be revealed at harvest time. That is when our understanding of God will truly be put to the test.
