cd: Tell me more about this adulterous relationship? Thanks.
> [Original Message] > From: Terry Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Date: 11/4/2005 10:41:13 PM > Subject: [TruthTalk] What counsel would you offer? > > > I have run into the following situation at least twice. Some of you > probably have too. Here it is. > > Sally was cheer leader in high school. If you were to choose a mate > strictly on physical appearance, she would be right up there among the > top five. Billy was the typical small town football hero. Billy went > for Sally because of her looks. Sally went for Billy because he was > somebody, a big duck in a little puddle. They married right out of high > school. > Billy was a big guy in a small town, but when the college coaches went > shopping for recruits, they did not stop in Billy's town. No > scholarship, not even an offer. Billy ended up driving the town garbage > truck. The marriage lasted a little over a year. Sally felt cheated. > She deserved better, so she filed for a no fault divorce. > > The following spring she met Joe A. Verage. Joe was the son of the > owner of the local super market. Joe, in fact, was manager of the > market, making a good salary, and sure to inherit the business when the > old man passed on. In time, Joe and Sally were married, and in more > time they had a couple of kids. About the time the first kid turned > nine, they went to a Billy Graham crusade and were saved. They started > attending church, then started attending Sunday school and everything > went well for a couple of more years, then they started reading the > Bible. Eventually they discovered that they seemed to be living living > in an adulterous relationship. > This bothered them a lot, and so they asked the pastor to tell them what > to do about this. > > You are the pastor. What do you tell them? > ---------- > "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. ---------- "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.
