[Note thread title change, a bit late.]
Ditto. For David: I am in process of preparing a
response to yours on the topic (which introduced a new thought or two for
me, so I am taking my time), but I may not need to if you and
Christine are saying the same thing.
Debbie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lance Muir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] All believers are ONE IN
CHRIST
> to be rather a common understanding.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christine Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: July 07, 2005 12:33
> Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] All believers are ONE IN CHRIST
>
>
>> Lance wrote:
>> > Further, many will experience
>> > unimaginable frustration over their
>> > inability to attain to the unattainable.
>>
>> Is this event evidence of a false teaching? I don't
>> mind sharing with you that I was once frusterated with
>> myself about trying to live in holiness. I would go a
>> week without reading my Bible, and get depressed with
>> how I had not served God as I knew I should. Or I
>> would participate in gossip, and later feel guilty
>> about it.
>>
>> But this is not the kind of holiness my father is
>> exhorting you to practice. That is a form of
>> self-absorbed righteousness. The Lord showed me I was
>> trying to serve Him while keeping my eyes on myself.
>>
>> If a person chooses to love God, and desires to love
>> and worship Him in everything they do, they will not
>> become frusterated in their walk, because their
>> conscience will be clear. They walked in love, they
>> are full of God's love. Their focus is on their God,
>> rather than on themselves. The result is that I will
>> not usually forget to study my Bible. If I do forget,
>> I try to do better, but I do not experience
>> frusteration over it, because I love God. My
>> conscience is clear. What you are talking about is a
>> genuine concern, Lance, but my father is not endorsing
>> that kind of obeidience.
>>
>>
>> Blessings!
>>
>> --- Lance Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > I do understand.
>> >
>> > Now, we are back to this matter of
>> > teaching/interpretation are we not,
>> > David.
>> >
>> > Example:This teaching in question (not to you but,
>> > to others). You believe
>> > it and, I'd assume that you also teach it. I believe
>> > that, at the very
>> > least, every member of your family believes it
>> > (whoops! not your wife as you
>> > described her as a worrier). I'd also suppose that
>> > you teach it in your home
>> > meeting. IFF (unthinkable for you, I know) you have
>> > not interpreted
>> > Scripture correctly on this point, then you, David,
>> > have generated a
>> > TRADITION. Further, many will experience
>> > unimaginable frustration over their
>> > inability to attain to the unattainable. Further
>> > yet, you (should this
>> > scenario be correct) you will have been deceived.
>> > Even further, one could
>> > not but wonder at the source of this deception,
>> > could one?
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "David Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > To: <[email protected]>
>> > Sent: July 07, 2005 10:59
>> > Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] All believers are ONE IN
>> > CHRIST
>> >
>> >
>> > > Lance wrote:
>> > > > YES YOU DO LIVE WITH THAT!
>> > >
>> > > Let me rephrase and see if we are talking about
>> > the same thing. I live
>> > with
>> > > tradition, but I do not live with the tradition
>> > that tradition overrules
>> > > Scripture. Do you understand what I am saying?
>> > >
>> > > If there is a conflict between tradition and
>> > Scripture, the tradition goes
>> > > and a new, more Biblical tradition, is adopted.
>> > Do you understand this
>> > and
>> > > how it works in churches like ours?
>> > >
>> > > Peace be with you.
>> > > David Miller.
>> > >
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