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Speaking the Truth in Love.
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Jun 10, 2006 7:06 pm
Mood: contemplative,
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The Word tells us to speak the Truth in love. Sometimes that means saying hard things. Dr. James Dobson says in his book, a Christian classic, Love Must Be Tough, that sometimes loving someone is telling them something that they don't want to hear. Loving someone is not saying something to them because that is what they want to hear. It is telling them the truth. In love, to me, means that you say whatever you have to say, even the hard things, with compassion, understanding and humility.
I have heard many people here at Big Church say or imply that we should not ever say anything negative to another person. I say that is a bunch of baloney! Loving people means sometimes saying things that they don't want to hear. I personally have had people say negative things to me that I really needed to hear. If they hadn't had the strength to tell me, I would not have changed some very bad behaviors or I would have gone down a very bad path in my life.
Jesus said some very negative things to people in the Word as did Paul. The things they said were said in love, though. They were meant to build up and better someone, not tear down or destroy them.
I think there is a very dangerous teaching in the church now-a-days. It says that we should be tolerant of everyone no matter what their lifestyle, what they say or what they do. This is a scheme of Satan, and it pains me to see good Christian people buying into this false teaching. If something does not line up with the Bible, we are to reject it. We are to warn the person doing or saying the wrong, not because we are better than they are but because we love them.
Tolerance is what will allow the Antichrist to take over the world. It has already allowed New Age and Cult teachings to enter into the church. If we don't adhere to what the Bible says, we will be deceived. It is that simple. I pray that no one here at Big Church allows that to happen to them.
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Who Is the Real Whitepanties?
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Jun 10, 2006 6:44 pm
Mood: curious,
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I think that Whitepanties is an alter ego of someone that we know from here already. Do you agree? If so, who do you think it is?
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