Yes......my thoughts exactly. There is a person with whom my friend and I
used to go to church, it seems he is involved in the gay life style
now....my friend feels we should go and try to talk to him....I don't feel
that way. This man is married, and I sent him an email tryng to encourage
him to work out the issues in his marriage....I said I wasn't writing to
condemn him....or judge him.....I was a member of the crowd who couldn't
throw the first stone....but I felt marriages were a forever thing....and we
should do all we can to save them........my friend says what if something
should happen to this man and we would have wished we would have goen to
him. He isn't listening to his wife of 23 years....don't really feel he'd
listen to me....besides I don't feel comfortable going to talk to him. I
said to my friend the very best thing we can do is pray.......
Thanks for your thoughts
Rhonda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad D" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: is this true?
> Rhonda,
>
> Personally I see it this way. God gave us a gift of freedom to choose. He
> told us from the beginning choose life or choose death, blessing or
> cursing. If he, himself, gave everyone that choice, I don't think he
> holds us to a higher level of responsibility for others than he does
> himself. Does he blame Christ for those who refused him? Those who mocked
> and cursed him? We are told to spread the good news but also to live
> quiet godly lives. It is amazing to me when folks become Christians they
> feel they now have to be SuperChrists and suddenly responsible for the
> world's salvation... I once was as a youngin' in the Lord. I believe we
> are held accountible for "our" actions and beliefs, but not that of
> others, but that is just my personal thought.
>
> Brad
>
>
>
>
> At 04:31 PM 3/12/2008, you wrote:
>>Not sure....if that is the one or not!! it just goes back to what are we
>>responsible to God for? What does it mean to be our brother's keeper?
>>Thanks
>>
>>Rhonda
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad D" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:24 AM
>>Subject: Re: is this true?
>>
>>
>>>Not sure if this is what she is referring to...
>>>
>>>Matt 11:19-23
>>>The Unrepenting Cities
>>>20 Then He began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles
>>>were done, because they did not repent.
>>>21 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles had
>>>occurred in Tyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they would have
>>>repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
>>>22 "Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and
>>>Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.
>>>23 "And you, Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? You will
>>>descend to Hades; for if the miracles had occurred in Sodom which
>>>occurred in you, it would have remained to this day.
>>>
>>>Perhaps she can find the passage being this is her belief? Not for your
>>>sake necesarily in and of itself, but her own. That is to say that its
>>>best to lay foundational beliefs on biblical references we know rather
>>>than "I think it says somewhere in the bible that..." plus in these
>>>little searches we gain knowledge and gems along the way :).
>>>
>>>Brad
>>>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Brad Dunse
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