Should salvation be hard?

[AreYouReady?]

Originally Posted by Titus2woman

REALLY???

Welcome to the club. (having fun here)

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by Rudy

LOL-well getting boiled, heads cut off, being a human torch, throne to lions, crucified, living in caves, jailed, etc, can be somewhat depressing.

So can living an more-or-less normal Christian life, but wondering if you are really saved. Or wondering why miracles don't happen for you. Or thinking some of your loved ones who have died are in eternal torment. (Does it help to know that they deserved it?)

[Titus2woman]

Originally Posted by Timmy

So can living an more-or-less normal Christian life, but wondering if you are really saved. Or wondering why miracles don't happen for you. Or thinking some of your loved ones who have died are in eternal torment. (Does it help to know that they deserved it?)

Lot of lousy outlooks... Living for God is good. We should be the happiest people on earth and the closer we come to him the more comforted we should feel...

God is LOVE. <3

[AreYouReady?]

Christ made salvation easy for us. He bore the cross and shed His blood so that we may have salvation.

How we respond to life situations after obtaining salvation is what is hard sometimes.
Are we willing to respond the same way Christ and the Apostles responded when they walked this earth?

Are we willing to suffer revilement, persecution, beatings and even death for the sake of His name?

[houston]

I'll tell ya what's hard, finding a match on the apo singles site.

[AreYouReady?]

What's so hard about it houston?

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by Titus2woman

Lot of lousy outlooks... Living for God is good. We should be the happiest people on earth and the closer we come to him the more comforted we should feel...

God is LOVE. <3

What do you mean by "lousy outlooks"? Lousy in what way? Should I be ashamed to think that way?

[houston]

Originally Posted by AreYouReady?

What's so hard about it houston?

Everyone there is cream of the crop in Pentecost, highly involved in their churches... younger than me (I haven't reached 30), have two or three kids, and divorced.

[Timmy]

If you never wonder if you are really saved, and will be saved at the end of your life, you aren't paying attention.

1. Jesus predicted that many believers would be rejected, to their surprise.

2. There are conflicting sets of instructions on how to get saved and stay saved. Did you guess right?

3. You can't predict the future. You may backslide before you die.

4. You may be expected to do something that you will find too difficult, when the time comes. Forsaking your family, e.g.

[AreYouReady?]

Who has two or three kids and divorced? The cream of the crop in Pentecost or you?
Divorce isn't a death sentence for wanting marriage, home and family...even in UPC. or it shouldn't be anyway.