[Vision2020] A Caution

[keely emerinemix]

"Tearing down another church" is a bad thing, quite unlike directly, forcefully, and honestly confronting error.  That wrong beliefs and practices hurt human beings makes opposing such error a terrifically Christian thing to do.  When Jesus referred to Pharisees as a "brood of vipers" and "whitewashed sepulchers," he wasn't doing it to be gratuitously mean and nasty -- look where it got him -- but to shine light on darkness.  It's one of the infinite things I worship about him; to the extent that Real Life is attempting to focus the light of the Gospel on Christ Church, they are following the character and the command of the Savior.

keely

> From: thansen at moscow.com
> To: pkraut at moscow.com; vision2020 at mail-gw.fsr.net
> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:31:26 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] A Caution
> 
> Roger Falen stated:
> 
> "I am not opposed to any church soliciting new members, but doing it by
> tearing down another church strikes me as not being a very christian way to
> go about it."
> 
> Mr. Falen (and you, too, Pat Kraut) - Your comments, please concerning . . .
> 
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> "As more and more heathens 'choose' to not have children the number of Godly
> souls will increase. If the number of Christian births out number the number
> of Islamic births the battle will be over in 3 or 4 generations."
> 
> - Doug "No-Clue" Farris (March 10, 2007)
> 
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> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> " . . . wording plays a big part in understand[ing] the nature and meaning a
> verse written two thousand years ago in a different language, and some
> Bibles just have it plain wrong."
> 
> - Donovan Arnold (August 23, 2005) 
> 
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