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Originally posted by Iconoclastic
No need to debate facts. About Preachdawg, well we have talked personally. That is all I will say about that. The outcome was between him and me. But here we have again, going to man to justify ourselves. You and others may not be concerned with the inner workings of others groups, but God is concerned when His name is mentioned, but He is not the one being talked about.
About a message of repentance; there are hundreds of people who have denounced their GLO's, not because their preacher or friend said so, but because God's Word made it clear.
Let Jesus Be Glorified!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I have tended to ignore your posts because your approach has been less than ideal but I felt compelled to share something with you based solely on this post. You remind me a lot of my father during my teenage years. My father had recently renewed his faith and was determined that my brother and I follow him with an equal zeal. The only problem was you cannot force someone else to meet you where you are and he, like you in my opinion, believed that if we weren't doing what he was doing then we didn't truly believe. That made his mission, like yours, impossible because it was not only inaccurate but insulting. He didn't bother to ask if we prayed on a regular basis, read the Bible to get clarity in our lives or if we lived Christian lives. Beating us about the head (figuratively) with the word of God was not going to get us where he wanted. It made my brother nearly disown religion and it strained my relationship with him for years. It wasn't until he came home and found me studying for Bible study (not with his church) that it dawned on him that he might have been wrong. Talking to the only somewhat older me made him realize where he had gone wrong and allowed him to speak to me as a person on their walk with the Lord. My walk wasn't his and your walk may not be similar to anyone's walk on this board.
I understand your desire to spread the word of God and reach out to others as a good Christian but if you can't understand that not everyone is called in the same way then you should respectfully understand that as well. If you can't then I think it says more about you than it does than those who have told you where they stood and just ask that you respect that. I have been wonderfully blessed and nothing I have achieved could have been accomplished without the grace of God. I'm okay where I am as I'm sure others on this board are as well. It seems as you are okay where you are as well but do not assume things about what God has intended for everyone just because He told you that your path lie elsewhere. And please don't PM me about this because there's nothing you can say that will alter what I have already stated.