Re: [ZION] Loving Mormon Bashers
John W. Redelfs wrote: Love isn't just something claimed, it must be felt by the object of that love. == Grampa Bill opines: Not sure I can agree with this statement. When a loving parent (heavenly or mortal) disciplines a wayward child, seldom does that child feel the love that impelled the discipline... years later, perhaps, but at the momment, no! Love y'all, Grampa Bill in Savannah // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / --^ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html --^
Re: [ZION] Loving Mormon Bashers
Very good policy. Stacy. At 12:07 AM 11/06/2003 -0500, you wrote: Well, John, I would agree with you there. Bashing is not in the Christlike action list of things to do. I am commanded to love the bashers, but I certainly don't have to either like them or tolerate being around them. But I was referring to those who try, out of love, to help me be saved. My response of gratitude will go a lot further towards helping them understand the true gospel than my shunning then. In my highly Baptist community, our Church has gained a fairly good reputation after decades of good works, many of those works done in concert with those of other faiths. So I try to separate the wheat from the chafe. Jon - Original Message - From: John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:09 PM Subject: [ZION] Loving Mormon Bashers Jon Spencer wrote: It's hard not to love someone who loves the Lord, even if they don't have it all quite right. It's hard not to be grateful to someone who thinks enough of you to try to save you, even though they can't. Changing the subject, how is it that when an anti-Mormon bashes me for being a member of the Church, and claims that he is doing it out of love for me, I don't believe him? Love isn't just something claimed, it must be felt by the object of that love. And I don't feel love from these activists from other denominations. --JWR // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / --^ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html --^
[ZION] Loving Mormon Bashers
Jon Spencer wrote: It's hard not to love someone who loves the Lord, even if they don't have it all quite right. It's hard not to be grateful to someone who thinks enough of you to try to save you, even though they can't. Changing the subject, how is it that when an anti-Mormon bashes me for being a member of the Church, and claims that he is doing it out of love for me, I don't believe him? Love isn't just something claimed, it must be felt by the object of that love. And I don't feel love from these activists from other denominations. --JWR // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / --^ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html --^
Re: [ZION] Loving Mormon Bashers
Well, John, I would agree with you there. Bashing is not in the Christlike action list of things to do. I am commanded to love the bashers, but I certainly don't have to either like them or tolerate being around them. But I was referring to those who try, out of love, to help me be saved. My response of gratitude will go a lot further towards helping them understand the true gospel than my shunning then. In my highly Baptist community, our Church has gained a fairly good reputation after decades of good works, many of those works done in concert with those of other faiths. So I try to separate the wheat from the chafe. Jon - Original Message - From: John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:09 PM Subject: [ZION] Loving Mormon Bashers Jon Spencer wrote: It's hard not to love someone who loves the Lord, even if they don't have it all quite right. It's hard not to be grateful to someone who thinks enough of you to try to save you, even though they can't. Changing the subject, how is it that when an anti-Mormon bashes me for being a member of the Church, and claims that he is doing it out of love for me, I don't believe him? Love isn't just something claimed, it must be felt by the object of that love. And I don't feel love from these activists from other denominations. --JWR // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / --^ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html --^
