@LloydLegalist @CSLCHSnMore One for your collection!
@HoneycombHermit I have had birthdays like that, and believe me, it’s just enough to know that you remembered and made the time. Shared company is more important than anything else.
@men_like_trees @CSLCHSnMore Wow. Lots more to assimilate!
It starts to explain quite why and how we might judge angels. That in itself shows a significant elevation from our earthly status to our status in sanctification!
@JesseDornfeld Very clear. Is there something in the Greek to English translation that lends James' words more towards confusion? Some people just don’t get context, or want to get context.
@men_like_trees @CSLCHSnMore I’m going to spend more time really assimilating this. It’s a really interesting build on the idea of the Church being family found in Ephesians 3:14-15 and elsewhere. It is important to understand what family and adoption meant to the Gentiles reading Paul’s letters.
@men_like_trees @CSLCHSnMore You will know this, but agape love is that which is most often referred to in the NT, and which describes the love God has for us, and us for him.
This article is quite helpful for those confused about Love, in The Bible. christianity.com/wiki/christian…
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@men_like_trees @CSLCHSnMore That’s what I was trying to say! 👌🏻
@men_like_trees @CSLCHSnMore Of course! There is so much more could be said on this, and I think it’s important! It distresses me how even 1 Co 13:4 ‘Love is patient…’ has been co-opted and standardised in weddings stripping it of it’s meaning outside of romantic love. We need to reclaim its real meaning!
@CSLCHSnMore A8 Biblically, love is not a feeling, but an action. Love will be seen. If we love God, this will be evident by how we act, towards our enemies and our neighbours. When Jesus said ‘Yet not what I will, but what you will’ that was true love in the Biblical sense.
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@AuthorJ_Fowler @CSLCHSnMore Yes. Not easy always, but healthy, and necessary. #HealthyFaithChat
@CSLCHSnMore A7 Mindful consciousness of our thoughts. Finding distraction when unhelpful ones try and make themselves at home. I have been surprised at the calming, cleansing affect of prayer, as it becomes for me more clearly relational, rather than dutiful.
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@CSLCHSnMore Genesis 2:24 is clear though:
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
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@CSLCHSnMore A6 When I was made to choose between obedience to my Father-in-Law, and the need to protect and serve my wife. He was a guest and we tend to defer to our elders. I had to draw a line and it resulted in a rift that never recovered. That was hard.
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@men_like_trees @CSLCHSnMore So much good stuff in the #MLJbeatitudes - and I’m only at Chapter 10…
@virginia_garret @KevinObie1 @CSLCHSnMore Yes, I think that people who have struggled with the relationships with their parents, can struggle with the idea of a ‘Father God’. And that is terribly sad. Esp. when it takes a deeper understanding of God to recognise what is going on in the OT in particular. #HealthyFaithChat
@CSLCHSnMore If you love me, you will keep my commandments. John 14:15 #HealthyFaithChat
@CSLCHSnMore A5. Matthew 22:37–39 said it best:
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
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@CSLCHSnMore A ‘good’ Christian is not like that because of their own character… he like that because the Spirit is truly working in them, by their faith, and by God’s grace. #HealthyFaithChat
@CSLCHSnMore Q4. No. God is perfect and parents are not!
It is important also to recognise that the traits of a true Christian are not natural traits, though some may find it easier than others to live the virtues described by Christ, for example in the Beatitudes.
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@CSLCHSnMore A3. To be obedient is to put our own desires second. The Lord expects us to empty ourselves of ourselves before we can be indwelt by the Spirit. Letting go of ourselves and our earthly wants demands humility. And demonstrates obedience.
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@CSLCHSnMore A2. There have been times and places where I knew I did not have a choice about following someone elses plan or intructions. There is obedience by consent, and sheer obedience. Sheer obedience is obedience against my earthly wishes (that which is hard not easy) #HealthyFaithChat
@men_like_trees @CSLCHSnMore It does make you think…
@men_like_trees @CSLCHSnMore It takes me ages to try and craft a half-decent response in 240 characters! #HealthyFaithChat