...if every member of AFF who's ever started a thread or responded to one all gathered for a church service under one roof?
Can you imagine what the atmosphere would be like, especially considering how wide the pendulum of beliefs swings on here?
Post away my friends!!!
But just think of how much charity would be manifest! NOT!!! If the same atmosphere was present there that is present sometimes on AFF there would probably be a "fist-a-cuff!" Some would be proclaiming the awesome Grace of God and others would be screaming "you're all going to Hell!" And there might be someone saying "two boys kissing have more of a chance of going to Heaven than you liberals!"
Been Thinkin
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LIFE: Some days you're the dog and some days you're the hydrant!
I have ... Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia! The fear of long words.
"Prediction is very hard, especially about the future." - Yogi Berra
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave in reflection." - Thomas Paine
I do believe that people would get along better for the most apart if we were to all meet face to face. Now I do see SOME exceptions with certain individuals that come to mind who showed zero Christian character while knowing all 10 thousand points of the apostolic law.
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I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
I think it would make the Ringling Bros & Barnum Bailey's Circus look terrible yet still fascinating to watch everybody...that, of course, is based solely on threads/posts I've seen.
I agree that people probably act a whole lot more civilized in person. Text is so hard to decipher as opposed to vocals, which for me is all the more imporant that we type carefully and with tactfullness...
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
I do believe that people would get along better for the most apart if we were to all meet face to face. Now I do see SOME exceptions with certain individuals that come to mind who showed zero Christian character while knowing all 10 thousand points of the apostolic law.
This is true. You will always have a better relationship with someone if you can spend some face time with them. It's why businesses spend lots of money shuttling people all over the world to meet others.
Would all of us when a repentant sinner finishes encourage to get Baptized immediatly, pray with them till they received the Holy Ghost speaking with tongues or would some pat on the back and rejoice while the others continued to pray for them.
Folks we need balance, not extremes!
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I can get along with most people. I don't like mean people at all. And have no problem telling them so.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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