RE: [TruthTalk] CSL comparable to Elvis??

[ShieldsFamily]

We can walk very circumspectly and still use the technology and cultures of the world to reach souls for Christ.  The dark ages were dark because the Word was under the control of the rigid religious institutions and kept in a box.  The whole world won’t be redeemed until Christ returns.  Until then we redeem one life at a time.  iz   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Judy Taylor Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 2:59 AM To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Cc: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] CSL comparable to Elvis??   Where was the Word during the dark ages?  (even though there were some Anabaptists and Waldenses and some now deny that there ever were what was called the dark ages)?  God hasn't redeemed the whole world (unless you are Lance and believe that everyone was assumed up into Him) and the NT still says that a friend of the world is God's enemy. Yes Jesus did love and accept the prostitute - but even she and all the ones He ministered to were only  the ones the Father sent Him, He did not run about willy nilly embracing everything and everyone and calling them redeemed.  It's those who do the will of the Father who make it and we still need to walk circumspectly - The faith we walk in is our own conviction and happy is he who does not condemn himself by what he approves (Rom 14:22).   On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:56:10 -0600 "ShieldsFamily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I don’t want to be the kind of person who is Against Everything.  I want to be For God-Kinds of Things.  I don’t want to spend my life fighting against everything.  I want to spend my life Celebrating Life in Christ.  Like Jesus, I don’t want to emulate the world, but to embrace the world with His Truth.  Jesus didn’t reject the prostitute.  He redeemed her.  Jesus didn’t reject the world.  He became part of it.  He bled for it.  He redeemed it.  And because of that His Secret Kingdom now permeates the world.  We who dwell in that Secret Kingdom are now the counter-culture revolutionaries that Jesus was.  We turn the “things of the world” on their head, and use them to spread the Good News.  Whether it be mythology, movies, or e-mail, we use the things of the world to overcome the world with good.  The gospel triumphs over every imagination of man.  There were probably those who rejected those strange new printing contraptions that made those newfangled books called Bibles.  Why can’t we just read from the scrolls like our grandfathers did? The Word will not be bound by the traditions of men, but explodes exponentially with each new age.  izzy   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Judy Taylor I don't see His parables as every day stuff - especially not when he told His disciples that he spoke in parables so that some would not see - rather than to make it easy for the regular run of the mill person out there (see Matt 13:34-43)   On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:58:17 -0600 "ShieldsFamily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I use the word secular to denote “everyday stuff” vs. “religious stuff”.    From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Judy Taylor Why do you call them "the secular allegory of His day?" Iz Wasn't He born under the Law into a theocracy?    On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:37:29 -0600 "ShieldsFamily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jesus used the secular allegory of His day; called parables. iz   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 12:26 PM To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] CSL comparable to Elvis??   In a message dated 12/9/2005 6:00:55 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ugh!  Will have to suffer witches and lions at the FF places for a while.  Did God say it was through secular allegory He would draw ppl or was it by the foolishness of preaching?? Blainerb:  Are we alluding to CS Lewis and his writings?                                             judyt                                        He that says "I know Him" and doesn't keep His Commandments                               is a liar (1 John 2:4)                                            judyt                                        He that says "I know Him" and doesn't keep His Commandments                               is a liar (1 John 2:4)                                            judyt                                        He that says "I know Him" and doesn't keep His Commandments                               is a liar (1 John 2:4)