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Name: Laura
Birthday: 9/7/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: My relationship with Jesus, studying crazy stories in his word, Sharon Olds, John Steinbeck, music, coffee (and lots of it), reading, writing, making cards, keeping my room tidy, talking to old people, holding hands with little kids, buying vintage pumps, not brushing my hair, and napping.
Expertise: Making, serving and drinking coffee.
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
10/17/2004
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| "And we have seen his Glory, the Glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of Grace and Truth."
That's in John 1, around verse 14.
I think in life, like in Christ, there must be a balance of grace and truth.
When dealing with friends, classes, children, parents, discipline, whatever - grace and truth. The truth part is the "rules." Your friend hurt you. Your children disobey you. Your parents don't understand you. Discipline sucks. That is true.
But the grace is what matters once there is truth.
The grace is forgiving your friend. The grace is blessing your child. The grace is obeying your parents.
Truth hits us over the head. The truth is the law of the Old Testament.
Grace lifts up our head. Grace is Christ's death on the cross.
Both are necessary. I want both.
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| I have to apologize for the offensiveness of my last post.
and I can't tell if people got my point, or not... Some people tripped over the f- word, and never really got the meaning of my bash on Christian love, or lack of love...
and, in all honesty, I feel like strong language is appropriate sometimes.
I think that Christians don't realize the depravity, the falleness, the utter "f-up-ness" our sin brings to everything.
If it takes a little language to shake up thinking, I'll do it.
Of course, I don't make a habit of cursing. Usually, I find it unattractive and unnecessary.
But, if the f word is the ugliest word in our vocabulary, I'll use it to describe sin. And I'm okay with that.
Sorry if I offended anyone. I apologize for the vulgarity of the last post.
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| You remember that passage where Jesus says the son who says, "I'll do it" then doesn't, disobeys; but the son who says, "I won't do it," then does, obeys?
Can this apply to love? We say - and God's word says, that the only source of love is from God himself, because God is love. That passage in 1 John also says, (v. 20), "If anyone says, 'I love God,' and hates his brother, he is a liar, for he does not love his brother whom he has seen..."
Also, verse 7 says, "Whoever loves has been born of God and knows God."
--what I'm getting at --
Are we, as Christians, saying, "Oh, we love our brothers" or "Oh, we'll obey you, Father" and then we don't --and then other people, whom we may consider "non-christians" they're out there loving each other --and even (oh God) their enemies! (Check out the movie Rent.) They are loving. They say, "We won't obey you, Father" and yet they do.
Turtullian said about Christians in the early church, "Only look! Look how they love one another"
and we, the "christians" aren't and others are!
This world --it was completely screwed up by our sin - then Jesus came to restore it - and yet we perpetuate the "screwed-up-ness" of it by saying, "love love love" and living like the judgemental bastards we are.
Am I completely heretical?
Jesus tell me if I am.
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