How much better might it be if the Christians that unbelievers see weren't hypocrites in the first place!I totally agree with allll of that. I really do. But I too often hear as an excuse that Christians are hypocrites as a reason for people not to come and be saved. One person said to my mother "I can't go to church, they are all hypocrites there"! She said " so are you, come and join us and we'll be perfected together."
Do you think transgenders go to heaven?
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A lot of people still don't seem to understand that LGBTQ activists are coming for the church. They have no intention of being conformed to God's will or to Christ. They expect the church, God and Jesus to conform to them. It's important to distinguish who is who and treat them accordingly. Yes, we should treat everyone with love and respect but that doesn't mean we turn our brains off. If we do, people are going to look up and see their church going the way of the UMC or others who have caved to the LGBTQ agenda.
Unless you have any kind of evidence to support that all your doing making assumption what @
Yes but my point is that when it comes to people who have been told over and over again that they are in sin they have been shown scripture after ascripture and the intention can be pure but if it does more harm than good then it isn't the way to reach them.
If we live the word though and they see it out of all the people I have helped the gay the lesbien the sexually attracted to odd things and one transgender I encountered two years ago this has always without fail helped and reached them. I don't know how much experience you have in this area but I actually have experience in this and have seen the results sure I couldn't help and save everyone one of them I lost to suicide and it was actually your method your using that drove him to it.
People have mental issues they have low self esteem they have fear of not being good enough in God's eyes all kinds of things that can affect how they take and handle how we go about this
Sure. The Alien solution: Bulldoze all of them into one big pit and bury them alive.
Not a single one. No need to share the Love of Jesus with any of them.
Yours is a unique ministry, my friend.
No you don’t, because if you did you wouldn’t feel the need to proclaim it on the internet. But this is your safe space and we understand.
I think that a part of obeying the great commission has to do with allowing Christ to sanctify us so that we will be a good example.
Even as one person said on here, if we are not good examples, it will not help to call others out on their sins.
I would say that if we actually live the gospel, then when the Holy Spirit has us speak of scriptures that concern sin,
those scriptures will bear more weight with the hearer because we are actually living it.
Also, Jesus said to take the log out of your eye before you try to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
Then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
So, I would say that we should seek for the Lord to fully convert us before we go about trying to convert other people.
God did not commission His Church to be a shrinking poodle turning tail and skittering away from every little threat and thing that goes 'boom' in the night. We are to be putting our lives on the front line every day to rescue the sick and the dying.
They must not have had any understanding of the blood that was shed for them.
If they had, they might have obtained forgiveness in the acknowledging that they were sinners and that yes, their homosexuality was sin.
It is unfortunate that the devil got to them before they could realize that.
I don't think that salvation would have come to them if they had acknowledged doctrinally everything about Christ but didn't acknowledge their sin. They would have been ten inches away from salvation.
See 2 Corinthians 7:10.
2Co 7:10, For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
If the intention is to produce sorrow over sin, it depends on the person as to whether it will be godly sorrow or worldly sorrow.
It is very unfortunate when the latter takes hold on someone.
And if you don't try to produce sorrow over sin, period, you will not be able to produce godly sorrow and thus they will not repent unto salvation.
There you go getting defensive again. Talk about acting like a teenage girl.
Of course they do..... but are we doing any favors by letting them play their mind games with us? You could look at it the other way, as well..... what about the other souls that are reading this garbage, and seeing mature Christians interacting with them as if their flawed, un-biblical beliefs actually had some merit? How many of them would be thinking well, maybe it's not as bad as I thought it was....
I'm all for working with, praying with, teaching someone who is truly seeking... it's easy to tell which ones they are, simply by their responses to what is said to them...
This one was not seeking, this one was trying to create division and quarrels....
Well you have to understand like I mentioned people deal with things that greatly affect them, he had a lot of self worth issues and feared God hated him he was told all the time how he was a sinner how verse after verse was shown to him he also struggled with suicidal thoughts as well as axiety he was always told what was wrong with him so even though he wanted to know God and wanted to believe in forgiveness he because of his mental issues when mainly just recieving from people how he was a sinner more than being shown the love understanding and willingness to listen
We have to remember that even Christians deal with depression or axiety or suicidal thoughts or being good enough not everyone has a solid stable mind if even Christians who have the hope of salvation deal with this imagine someone who struggles with the stuff we are talking about who may not have that.
The Born again "go to heaven"
If you're not, you wont be going, and water baptism can't do that for you.
This is ridiculous, no one mistreated her, she had an agenda and when people did not agree she called them hateful.