“So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death.” – Tony Campolo
“Moses who was fleeing from his troubles, fleeing from the conflict…setting himself up for a quite life in the desert tending his father in laws flock, after recieving revelation from God was now going to have to tend and lead a whole different sort of flock.” (Mark E)
LA Times
“Wiley S. Drake, a Buena Park pastor and a former national leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, called on his followers to pray for the deaths of two leaders of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
and his biblical and theological justification……
“Drake said Wednesday he was “simply doing what God told me to do” by targeting Americans United officials Joe Conn and Jeremy Leaming, whom he calls the “enemies of God.””God says to pray imprecatory prayer against people who attack God’s church,” he said. “The Bible says that if anybody attacks God’s people, David said this is what will happen to them. . . . Children will become orphans and wives will become widows.”Imprecatory prayers are alternately defined as praying for someone’s misfortune, or an appeal to God for justice.”Let his days be few; and let another take his office,” the prayer reads. “Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.””
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Hamo has an interesting post on what it means to be a Christian.
Plenty of people say that you can be a Christian without going to Church…..And we all know what Keith Green said, going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to McDonalds makes you a hamburger.
But in our individualistic society, have we allowed the culture of our day to influence our beliefs?
Is there something about being part of a Ecclesia that determines our spirituality? If we are not part of ‘a’ body of Christ, to what level are we part of ‘the’ body of Christ?
Does Christ call us to be part of His Body? I would answer yes. To be responsible to it, to care for it, to help it grow, to be a part of His body here on earth? I am sure the answers are again yes.
So where does that leave those who are not part of an Ecclesia….part of a called out people?
Don’t hear me saying you need to go to church on Sunday AM….it is far more time consuming and costly than that.
Isn’t Christ calling us to be in a covenantal relationship with other Christians? Thats far more than attending Church on Sunday.
verse 16….the Spirit of God lives within us
like a light leaping out of the page, so this verse touches me and disciplines me. It reminds me again….that I am nowhere near the person I need to be….it reminds me that the HOLY Spirit lives within me…but I am not holy, and often the opposite.