Re: [TruthTalk] Suzy II

[Knpraise]

In a message dated 11/15/2004 2:26:40 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Yes. John stated it best when he said, "you will be disappointed if [teaching] is your agenda." I wish would have said that instead of the quote below. This forum will probably help you to grow a thicker skin.
 
And thank you, John. It was not meant to be contentious, although I can see how someone might think it was (or that I have four fingers pointing back at myself)
 
-- slade

Aaaahhhh  ---  empathy!   It is a good thing.   Without it, marriages don't stand a chance and unity of the spirit is only a doctrine. As I see it, there is a difference between unison and unity.    Christ pryaed for it in John 17  --  his only prayerful ocnsideration for those of us in this present time.   I think it a failure on my part when the "edge" (Jonathan's astute observation) is a noticeable aspect of my conversation (with DM for example).  That failure is compounded when we cannot continue as brothers in spite of that edge.   Unison verses unity.    In the most intimate of communal circumstances, marriage, unity exists only when  each of the partners is free to be what he/she wants to be.    Imposed unity, under the threat of disfellowship or ridicule, is tyanny   --   not unity.   If I am one with you because of fear, there is assurance this unity extends beyond that fear.   When the world sees brethren who disagree on important issues (all within the bounds of the Christ experience), caring for each other, it sees reason to believe.    IMO, there is no such motivation upon the observation of those walking together in lock-step.  


John