Problem #5: We are needlessly turning people away from the gospel.
Our story is not primarily about how we got here. It’s about why we’re here. It’s about making things new. It’s about getting in on what God is doing in the world. But we give people an either/or attitude. Either you subscribe to creationism or we will not let you be a Christian. We make people to feel as if they could never hope to belong in our family.
Years ago, I worked under a pastor who told me about how his brother had been turned away from the faith because of this kind of thinking. I was a fairly staunch creationist back then and I dismissed his story. I basically thought that's too bad, but I can't help it if people won't accept the truth. I think I've grown since then. I realize that the truth does hurt sometimes, but I also realize that I don't have to use the truth to hurt people. Do you see that distinction? Hurling truth missles at people is not a requirement of the gospel.
"Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ." (Ephesians 4:14-15)
I think many of use have tended to think that "speaking the truth in love" means always speaking the truth, even when it hurts. But what if it means speaking the truth only when it is in love? I don't want to gloss over the context from verse 14. I understand that we don't want people to be blown around by "cunning and craftiness." But part of what I've been trying to get at in this series of posts is that we ought to be careful about what we label "deceitful scheming." I think we have to be willing to examine our own views of the truth to see if there is any deceit in us. I think we also have to be able to differentiate between what is dangerous about a teaching and what is potentially helpful. We don't have to assume a dichotomy with everything. There is sin in all of us and therefore there is going to be at least a tinge of falsehood in our teachings, no matter who we are.
Creationism. Interesting subject. Did life come out of a random chaotic process or was it planned? Anyway is an important message. Please read and pass it along. I have a message to tell you about Revelation. The message is from God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost respectively sent in the Spring of 2006. It is about the meaning of First is Last and Last is First . The message is this:
In the morning I go to Heaven. In the afternoon I live my life. In the evening I die, death. What does this mean? In other words this means Birth is Last and Last is Birth. To understand this don't think from point A to point B. Think of this as a continous circle of life. Birth, Life, Death, Birth. God also said that Judgment will be before Birth in Heaven. AS birth on
Earth is painful so will birth in Heaven. It is possible that this message was delivered by one of God's Angels. Yes, God has recently made contact and he sent a messenger. Spread this message along, just like a chain letter. Oh, one more point of interest. Did you know that Mike Douglas died on his birthday? Melanie Stefine
Posted by: Melanie Stefine | October 17, 2007 at 12:22 PM
I never like to assume anything, it only makes an As# out of U and me. But since God made contact, it makes sense to me that maybe he had a hand in creation. When he was here during the Spring and Summer of 2007 he did talk about the first 8 steps or processes in single cell development. Or what I call the beginning of life. So he does know a few things about cell development. Now he didn't go into great detail. He just gave a basic overview.
Posted by: Melanie Stefine | October 17, 2007 at 12:30 PM
Aren't chain letters evil? God shouldn't be associated with them. Otherwise He may be deleted, or blocked by a spam filter. Then where would we be?
Posted by: TomTom | October 17, 2007 at 06:18 PM
Yes, chain letters could be evil. Chains letters were my idea cause I don't want to tell each and everyone of you. This is taking me forever to get the word out that God left a message for you.
Here is one small piece of proof.
Like I said earlier, the Holy Spirit talked to me, besides his message about First is Last and Last is First, he had something to say about “Who Killed JFK”. Christ tells me that the man who shot JFK is a policeman. He also tells me the name of the shooter, but it is in a jumbled word. The word is “Fritters” . I see the name F. Ritter right off so I think that is the name of the killer. Now God has lots of other messages for me to figure out, so I put “who Killed JFK” on the back burner for over a year. A year or more later , just recently, I have more time to look for F. Ritter. I can’t find a policeman with that name who lived in Dallas, Texas in 1963. So I am searching for information about who killed JFK and there is a picture of a policeman by the name of JD Tippit. Now Tippit kind of looks like Ritter . Now I un-jumble the letters of Ritter to TIRRET. Now TIRRET looks more like TIPPIT. Now I make the R’s stand at attention, I get TIPPET. One problem is that the I and the E are not the same. So I do some research on the family name TIPPIT. Turns out that in the late 1800’s JD Tippit’s grandfather changed their name from Tippett to Tippit. So the next step, I change the E to I. So Tippet is now Tippit. Now I have FS Tippit and JD Tippit. The first two initials are not the same. Next I go to Wikipedia there I find; "Some thought that J. D. stood for Jefferson Davis. However J D does not stand for anything. That means his name is just J D. So the initials F S, do not stand for anything. I just have two initials that do not stand for anything. Are you following me?
Next what does FRITTERS mean. If your following my thinking here, God is going to tell you what happened to JD Tippit after he was shot. Fritters are a dough that is deep fried. Bread also means body, like in the last super Christ takes the bread and says this is my body. Look in the dictionary, PIT means HELL. TIP means money paid, gratuity. There are other meanings to.
JD Tippits body (dough) is placed in the deep fryer (lake of fire). Now I think this clue (Fritters) was ingenius. After all God came up with it. I think he does have a sense of humor too. Kids now have a new game to play. They can play God. Pilsbury dough boy fry’s in the lake of fire. You get HELL! fry baby fry!
If you think this is just crazy. Remember I am just the messenger. Jesus is the one that had to talk about JFK. So he had a reason for doing that. Chirst is telling you who killed the president so that you will believe that his messages are from God. Remember only God knows who killed JFK. He told me and I am telling you. I had forgotten about the case years ago. This is a cold case now, it been 45 year since the shooting. Nov. 22 is the anniversary.
I also read the part about giving false prophesy. God says false prophets go to Hell or something like that. I only repeat what God told me. Now what I wrote above is from God. He told me who killed JFK in 2006. The above is not a lie or a joke and I am going to HEAVEN without fear.
Before I forget. Gods messeges usually have more than one meaning. F S could also stand for “Fence Shooter”.
Who are the co-conspirators? Turns out that there are two policemen named Tippit, and one other Tippett working in the Dallas police Department that same year(1963). Back to the clue word Fritters. That is plural, you know about plural. We have two fritters. The co-conspirators name is Gayle M. Tippit.
Now the Dallas Police Department obviously covered up and framed Oswald. He was the Patsy. They did it cause it is very possible that one of the other police officers rushing to the scene saw Tippet fleeing the scene carrying a rifle. They covered it up because of the embarrassment of one of their own was the man that killed JFK? And the Warren commission must have also figured that out so they stuck with the Dallas Dept. story saying that it was Oswald. Otherwise it could have been a National embarrassment. Now if you look at the evidence like I did. It is easy to see that the Dallas Police Dept tampered with the evidence over and over again. And they did a very bad job of it too.
Now this is my opinion, not Gods. I think God is behind the creation of the Internet. I could never have been able to figure out a lot of his messages without the use of the Internet. People on the Net have been a big help to me. God talks to other people too, they just don’t know it. God let me know it was him.
This is proof because it is impossible for any one to do what I did with the clue word FRITTERS. I made it look easy. I can do that over and over again in all of God's messages. It is impossible for anyone to do what I do.
God's Messenger, Melanie
Posted by: Melanie Stefine | January 10, 2009 at 09:31 PM