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From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:41:07 -0400
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] liberal churches are dying (dead!)
John wrote: > ... this is my point, he did not use drive by techniques > that kept Him isolated and, thus, "untainted," from the > "world." rather, it was out of a continuing fellowship > with these people that he made many of His disciples. I'm not sure about him not using "drive by techniques." Maybe you have a different definition for that too. It seems to me that his encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well was a kind of "drive by technique." Read about the blind man healed in John 9; it seems like a kind of "drive by technique" too. They asked him where Jesus was, and he said he did not know. Read John 5:13 and you will find a lame man who did not even know who healed him, until Jesus later found him in the Temple and warned him not to sin again lest a worse thing come unto him. We see SP very differently and neither of us
are going to move off the proverbial. Jesus had a requirement for all these sinners who dined with him. Repent. Stop sinning. Consider how Jesus upbraided the cities where he had healed the sick. Why did he do that? Because they did not repent. Matthew 11:20 (20) Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: How he handled "leadership" is one thing. "upbraidng the
cities" is a picture of Christ's conflict with those in charge. My point is that Jesus did not fellowship with sinners in the sense of sharing in the desires and goals of sinners who are continuing in sin. He preached repentance and ate with those sinners who were hearing his message. Think about why John the Baptist preceeded Christ with his ministry of baptism unto repentance. John was preparing the way of the Lord because sinners cannot have fellowship with Christ. Sinners must make themselves ready for the Lord. Do you assume that I am preaching a sinning and sinful Jesus - bent on
that kind of partnership with sinners? If that is your assumption of me in the above -- let's just move one.
Luke 1:17 (17) And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. Peace be with you. David Miller. ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed.
