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REBUKE PUBLICLY or PRIVATELY?
-by Andrew Strom.
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I have noticed with much disappointment how many Christian leaders in order to win their point speak untruthfully and sometimes slanderously about the beliefs of others.

I shared this little epiphany I had with a friend of mine on Facebook this morning.

For “sin industries” to survive, and for lies to thrive, Christianity must be slaughtered.

To populate hell, one must either eliminate or neutralize Christians.   One must leave behind nothing but fakes, liars, hypocrites, the cowards, the insincere — ones who have no real relationship with God other than to keep Him at arms distance.

To do this on a large scale takes education.  Children must be indoctrinated in the schools with our money. Christians must be abused and kept out of education or sequestered into a place where Christian ideals are irrelevant to the subject matter such as mathematics or physics, but never biology, history, English, psychology, or government. They must be taught at an early age that sin is good, pleasing, and a right to be defended vigorously and violently with lies, manipulation and abuse if necessary and that those who oppose sin are evil, intolerant, bigoted and to be linked with extreme racism and fascism.

The war is intense and violent and for a large part, we Christians have laid down our weapons and joined the enemy in an act of treason.  But, this life is our only time to declare our allegiance to God or to selfishness, sin, and Satan.

The choice is ours, and the raging battle will give us our chance to reveal who we truly are.

I have a few questions.

The goal here is not to get the right answer and blurt it out, but to think about the question and how it applies to you and me personally.

If your loved ones were going to perish for all eternity and there was something you could do to help prevent that from happening, would you want to know? Or do you feel you already know enough?

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Many people feel entitled to demand marriage and divorce as though they were inalienable rights granted by God.  After all, who has the right to tell us who we can and cannot marry and whether we can or cannot leave that marriage?

This is evidence a nation and its people have lost their understanding of what marriage is.  And with that, they show they have have lost their honor, integrity, courage, security, and sincerity of love. Read the rest of this entry →

Eileen and I have been in prayer about ministry — ministry here in Fresno at our church serving in the role of training our church up in evangelism, and this is something our pastor and our church has felt a deep hunger and need — to reach the lost for Christ, to see souls saved and discipled. Read the rest of this entry →

Evangelism is not about making a sales pitch and getting someone to repeat a prayer they don’t understand.  If that’s all we do, then we’re merely innoculating people against the Gospel and increasing the danger that their soul will be lost for all eternity.

True evangelism is about multiplying after our own kind.  Like it or not, we all do exactly that.  So, if we’re liars, we can tell people to be honest, but our example will be one of hypocrisy and that is the role model we will present for them to follow.  How can we teach someone to trust in Christ if we don’t?  If we’re entertaining sin, if we’re living in sin, if sin is our Lord, if sin is the one that gets our trust and obedience in practical matters?  If that is our condition, then how can we lead others to heaven while going to hell ourselves?
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Real Grace provides emancipation from sin.

Fake Grace provides defense of sin, license for sin, excuses for sin, false comfort for sin, tolerance for sin, agreement with sin, provisions for sin.

John 3:16 does not say, “For God so loved sin …”

John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

What’s the difference?

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The Bible tells us to do our work as unto the Lord.  Matthew tells us about the Lord dividing the sheep from the goats or the faithful from the unfaithful and saying, “Inasmuch as you have done it to the least of the brethren, you have done it unto Me.”

I have nothing against those who the Lord has prospered and enabled to become wealthy through legitimate means.  But, what about those who find a person in dire need of medical, dental, or legal care?  If God has given you a wonderful talent and skill, would you want to stand before Him and answer why you took advantage of His suffering and used it to extort a hundred dollars an hour from Him refusing to help Him unless He pays?

Will you tell Him, “Business is business”?

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John the Baptist said to Herod, “it is unlawful for you to have your brother’s wife”.

Was John unreasonable or unfair?  Was John only speaking to the generation of his day?  To listen to some lukewarm and cowardly churches today one would think so.  “How intolerant!”  “Didn’t John ever read Deuteronomy 24:1-4?”  “And who did Jesus think He was to honor John after he said such a judgmental  and intolerant thing?”  I’ll tell you who He was.  He was honest.

Jesus did not say it was OK for Christians to dump their spouses.  He did not say it was OK to make excuses for doing so or to defend doing so.  Jesus did not give churches or pastors the authority to lie and call “Holy Matrimony” something Jesus calls adultery.

But, that is exactly what pastors do when they set aside their honor and integrity and stand before the very congregation God trusted to their care and officiate a marriage for someone who has divorced his or her spouse without cause to marry someone else.

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