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 | Knowing God - What I truly believe?
Many Christians these days believe about God and can name his divine nature well, and can tell others what they believe about the doctrines.
But their experiences with God Himself are mostly shallow-based and can not go deep in their walk and talk for various reasons.
I feel most disappointed in finding out it is so from among so called leaders of the church.
I would rather tell the true and whole story, for instance, how God carried me through more than 10 years out of work without family support, within minimal church and government support, in order to help the hearers see it for themselves.
I believe that we do lack "strong stories" to tell these days in our witnessing at church, at work, at home and at school. Our strong testimonies are one of the most convincing tools we often overlook to work at carefully and consistently when we seek to edify one another in relationship.
Doctrines need to be taught in manners of great wisdom and understanding, instead of spoon feeding,knowing how to lead and guide your audience into correctly handling the word of truth and competently discerning spirits, arguments and opinions from the truth. This is a very important step for our spiritual growth and development. By doing well in this area, it can have great impact on our choices, decision making and values system by which every part of our life is affected for the better and for the worse.
Let me put these verses before us all to chew over: Out of overflow of the heart the month speaks. The fruit of the lips increases learning. |
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Forgiveness in Practice
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Oct 25, 2008 3:51 am
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Biblical Forgiveness
Forgiveness is conditional primarily towards believers
Matt18:21-35
Luk 11:4; Matt 6:12-15
Luk6:37; 17:3-4; Mark11:25
1 John 1:9
Forgiveness is one-way street towards unbelieving enemies
Luk23:34 — Jesus’ death
Acts 7:56-60 — Stephen’s death
The bible is pretty clear about forgiveness. The Lord God Almighty is slow to anger and ready to forgive.
I have found it hard to do so towards unbelieving enemies, especially those described in causing Jesus' death and Stephen's death. Personally, it is too hard to forgive my wicked parents who have ruined my life. Though supposed to love us but hurt us the most is the hardest to be forgiven.
I total agree with conditional forgiveness among believers as quoted above but in reality whenever I am wronged, the other party would not always come and say sorry and seek forgiveness. They may even expect me to do so instead. Well I try not to hold grudges against them and leave our "disputes" to God for justice in due time.
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Australian Churches in Crisis today!
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Sep 20, 2008 6:33 am
Mood: contemplative,
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In order to address some core issues of concern, I have brought my discoveries to God's attention again, regardless of the extent of the problems evident in each local church:
1. Lack of mature godly leadership in local churches: sound in doctrines, able to teach and preach the whole counsel of God in good manners and approaches (not in boring and lecturing tones, not in spoon-feeding under-estimating others tone, not in domineering, aggressive, sales-focused tone, not in the use of eloquent speech and flowering languages, not in obscure and wishy-washy tone, not in vain repetition and meaningless gap-filling tone, not in flattery and making you feel good tone, but in the fear of the Lord and in the demonstration of the power of God, and of the Spirit (filled with Spirit) along with a strong sense of humility correcting all those opposing the leaders.
2. Lack of caring shepherds in local churches: babes are not fed and followed up, young in faith Christians are wandering day after day, lukewarm Christians are self-serving, and complacent, bring in the patterns of the world to pollute the church, infiltrating elements are not watched out, purged and cut off. Church discipline is almost non-existent to bring those “bad sheep” under control.
3. Lack of ministry power resulting from poor or weak testimonies in the life of those being put under leadership positions: Inconsistency in speech, action and relationships, double-standards living, and lacking spiritual depths and experiences in spiritual warfare, in Christ’s sufferings, in knowing God and His ways, in walking with Him and in understanding of the pain, hurt, losses, sorrows and grieves, and internal struggles of others.
May God have mercy on us all who believe in him and raise up more godly servants of His choice such as Nehemiah, Daniel, Paul, Job, Samuel and so on in order to meet the challenges of our days in church, for the days in which we live are evil and perilous, the evidence of end time of this age.
Thanks be to God for the age to come, the Kingdom Age in which Christ will reign supreme and subdue all his enemies under his feet. We who believe will reign with Him, the King of kings and the Lord of lords, whose name is forever blessed. Amen.
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Knowing God -What you believe?
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Sep 10, 2008 3:23 am
Mood: cheerful,
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Knowing God - What I truly believe?
Many Christians these days believe about God and can name his divine nature well, and can tell others what they believe about the doctrines.
But their experiences with God Himself are mostly shallow-based and can not go deep in their walk and talk for various reasons.
I feel most disappointed in finding out it is so from among so called leaders of the church.
I would rather tell the true and whole story, for instance, how God carried me through more than 10 years out of work without family support, within minimal church and government support, in order to help the hearers see it for themselves.
I believe that we do lack "strong stories" to tell these days in our witnessing at church, at work, at home and at school. Our strong testimonies are one of the most convincing tools we often overlook to work at carefully and consistently when we seek to edify one another in relationship.
Doctrines need to be taught in manners of great wisdom and understanding, instead of spoon feeding,knowing how to lead and guide your audience into correctly handling the word of truth and competently discerning spirits, arguments and opinions from the truth. This is a very important step for our spiritual growth and development. By doing well in this area, it can have great impact on our choices, decision making and values system by which every part of our life is affected for the better and for the worse.
Let me put these verses before us all to chew over: Out of overflow of the heart the month speaks. The fruit of the lips increases learning.
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