Author	Thread: A love letter to my family...
Admin	A love letter to my family... Posted : 6 Nov, 2012 12:43 AM As it often happens, blessings come when you least expect them. Tonight was one of those blessings. I found myself really sad at the dis-unity of this "Church", this is the best word for it I think. We are in a ministry of sorts, I like to think so anyway. Well as it turned out, I was approached this evening to do some "brain working" or "spirit working" by a beloved brother. There were a few concerns discussed, ideas exchanged, and as often happens, not much seemed to be accomplished. The key word being "seemed". One thing I've come to learn (albeit slowly) is that things don't always happen in "our time frame". Patience and long suffering seem to be an unavoidable fact of life (Christianity). I know I'm the type who likes to dive right in and solve an issue, fix a problem, "get 'r dun"! It rarely happens that way in real life though does it? One of my gripes with Christianity is the conflict, the dis-unity, the strife, etc. Everyone is right, and everyone is wrong. We're so quick to point fingers. We're so quick to kick someone when they are down instead of helping them up. We're just downright mean to each other. I don't like it. I don't think the Father and Son enjoy it either. I can't picture the agony Christ went through being honoured by our behaviour. He did not suffer for us to do this to each other. We need to pull together as a family. That IS what we are! Every person here, man or woman, who calls Christ Lord and King is my family. Granted, some of our family are weak, sick, likened to a terminal cancer patient, dying that spiritual death. I've been in that "terminal cancer ward" many years. Only now am I beginning to recover, and much slower than I'd like. Everyone here is at a different stage in their walk. Some are strong in the Lord, some are newly "weaned off milk", some are babes, and some haven't even been born (again) yet. I thought I was a strong shepherd type for many years. I was mistaken. At best I'm just now getting into the meat and potatos but I still need that milk from time to time. Pride and vanity held me back. I was (and still am to an extent) one of those "I'm right, you're wrong and going to hell" types. I'm trying to change that attitude. I need help, from all of you. I've met some truly beautiful people here. People who had virtually no scriptural knowledge or schooling by comparison, yet their level of humility and the Holy Spirit within them shamed me in the extreme. I thought I was "all that" yet I found I was nothing. As I am fond of saying..."humility is the beginning of righteousness." It truly is. I would like to see my family healed. Thinking about how far we've fallen makes me sad. Perhaps I'm too emotional, perhaps I'm just a big baby. Perhaps this situation is worth crying about. I may not agree with all of you on points of scripture or theology but you are my family. Loving some of you is very difficult at times. And I can imagine, for some of you, loving me can be trying as well. I'm just a simple fool who's trying to love my family the best way I know how. I'd like to share a couple movie clips that relate what I'm feeling, and maybe what some of you should be feeling as well. No, I'm not pointing fingers or singling anyone out. It's a sadness, but a good sadness. A Godly sorrow if you will. These are clips from Jesus of Nazareth. Yes, there is un-scriptural screenplay here, however, I ask all of you to look past this and see the power and beauty of the message portrayed. Please take 20 minutes of your day and watch this. I relate to Peter when he says "Forgive me Master, I'm just a stupid man." The scene at the end of the Parable of the Prodigal Son is very beautiful to me for I AM that stupid man. Cry with me. Cry for each other, cry for the Lord. Just cry. Jesus of Nazareth 10/28 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=qH5gmRQLIIM Jesus of Nazareth 11/28 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y-Dqp00N_w&feature=fvwp&NR=1 Let's not make Christ's sacrifice in vain. Please, lets all work together for HIS GLORY. ><> Post Reply
View Profile History	A love letter to my family... Posted : 7 Nov, 2012 12:36 PM What "Church" do you attend TBK ? Maybe I will attend a service so I may see what Gospel they are preaching...:yay:...and how they are worshipping...:bow:...the LORD thy God and Praising His Son...:angel:...Jesus!!!...Its always GOOD and I love to visit others Churches...=0)...<><...xo Post Reply
View Profile History	A love letter to my family... Posted : 7 Nov, 2012 01:31 PM Learn to be a helpmeet Jude and not a hindrance. Post Reply
View Profile History	A love letter to my family... Posted : 7 Nov, 2012 02:37 PM I would like to offer my sincerest apologies for the offense I caused with my posts. Please forgive me. Love, Jason Post Reply
View Profile History	A love letter to my family... Posted : 7 Nov, 2012 03:06 PM Learn to be a helpmeet Jude and not a hindrance. *** Truth is TBK...I am a HelpMeet and Not a hinderance to anyone but you...Father~Abba~the Most High GOD~Yahshua Messiah~Jesus the Christ~HolySpirit love and like me just as I am and one such as you will never change that Truth !!!...:laugh: Vald...No need to Appologize...a Child of ABBA doesnt bow down~surrender~submit to a man...only GOD !!!..Be at Peace and know that you are LOVED...<><...xo Post Reply
View Profile History	A love letter to my family... Posted : 7 Nov, 2012 03:13 PM The kindness that Jude teaches is that apologizing for a wrong is the equivalent to bowing down to a man. Is this scriptural? LOVE... 5 or rude. IT DOES NOT INSIST ON ITS OWN WAY; it is not irritable or RESENTFUL 6 it DOES NOT REJOICE AT WRONGDOING, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. I forgive you Valde. I would ask that you forgive if my comments have been hurtful. They were not meant to be. Post Reply
View Profile History	A love letter to my family... Posted : 7 Nov, 2012 03:36 PM Brother J. Again, I would like to reiterate to you that it was nothing personal from my end. I consider this matter forgiven. Let's press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus together. 2 Cor 7. 8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. 9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. Post Reply
View Profile History	A love letter to my family... Posted : 7 Nov, 2012 03:42 PM I guess TBK doesnt attend a Church...I attend an AWESOME Church...its really Big...and the Message (Gospel~GoodNews) is about JESUS...right out of the Bible...OT and NT....what does your Church teach GUD ???...<><...xo Post Reply
View Profile History	A love letter to my family... Posted : 7 Nov, 2012 03:47 PM Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Matt 7:13 Post Reply
View Profile History	A love letter to my family... Posted : 7 Nov, 2012 03:50 PM I will respond to the question when you clarify it. I don't know what you mean when all you do is ask what my church teaches. I will respond when you stop playing silly games like, "I guess TBK doesn't attend a Church". He simply didn't answer your question. We are not benefited by your guesses. If your church teaches straight from the word then how come you are so misguided on the topic of salvation? Really big as in the building size or the population size? Often times those big in population size are because of their itching ears. Now this is not always. There are some large faithful churches, but we have seen what type of teachings you promote here so it's not a stretch to say what I am saying. Post Reply
View Profile History	A love letter to my family... Posted : 7 Nov, 2012 03:55 PM What matters is what the Bible teaches. This is the only Truth - Alpha to Omega. Amen. Post Reply

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