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Hi everyone.
I have been, and posted, on this site for some time now. I find that at times one gets carried away by his or her own beliefs, and through various replys and discussions back and forth, we sometimes get rude and argumentative, and sometimes downright insulting to one another, and I certainly have done so myself. After a little soul-searching, I began to feel badly at some of the posts I have made, for I have behaved rather badly with some of the ones that post regularly, and have been insulting and critical of those whom I have communicated with.
I feel that this is very unChrist like, and want to apologise to those I may have offended, and will try very hard to improve my behaviour.
I would appreciate some of your comments on this subject, I certainly want to improve my behaviour. I do know the feeling of wanting to retaliate when some one makes a degrading comment about you and your beliefs, but just think what Christ would say if He were accused, we ought to try to imititate His behaviour.
What do you think?God Bless.
PS. I may take a break from this website for awhile, and think about what I just said. But I will keep an eye on it.
Quote (chosenone @ Nov. 22 2008,06:54) Hi everyone.
I have been, and posted, on this site for some time now. I find that at times one gets carried away by his or her own beliefs, and through various replys and discussions back and forth, we sometimes get rude and argumentative, and sometimes downright insulting to one another, and I certainly have done so myself. After a little soul-searching, I began to feel badly at some of the posts I have made, for I have behaved rather badly with some of the ones that post regularly, and have been insulting and critical of those whom I have communicated with.
I feel that this is very unChrist like, and want to apologise to those I may have offended, and will try very hard to improve my behaviour.
I would appreciate some of your comments on this subject, I certainly want to improve my behaviour. I do know the feeling of wanting to retaliate when some one makes a degrading comment about you and your beliefs, but just think what Christ would say if He were accused, we ought to try to imititate His behaviour.
What do you think?God Bless.
PS. I may take a break from this website for awhile, and think about what I just said. But I will keep an eye on it.
Hi Brother Jerry:We all make mistakes, and when you appologize for behaviour that is not Christ-like and want to do what is right, and that is to pattern your life after what Jesus our Lord has taught us that is repentance in action.
You haven't offended me, but I do feel that we have to strive to come into unity in what we teach so that people will know that God is a reality and want to be reconciled to Him through Jesus our Lord.
Jesus prayed that we would be “One” as he and the Father are “One”, that is united in “one spirit and one purpose”.
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Jhn 17:1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:Jhn 17:2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
Jhn 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Jhn 17:4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
Jhn 17:5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Jhn 17:6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
Jhn 17:7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
Jhn 17:8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received [them], and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
Jhn 17:9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
Jhn 17:10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
Jhn 17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we [are].
Jhn 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
Jhn 17:13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
Jhn 17:14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Jhn 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
Jhn 17:16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Jhn 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Jhn 17:18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
Jhn 17:19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Jhn 17:20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
Jhn 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Jhn 17:22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
Jhn 17:23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Brother Jerry, I love you and want God's very best for you and your family.
God Bless
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