Well...
Submitted by JohnDoe420 on 2002-12-3 03:40:39, Tuesday
In reply to To tell the truth submitted by Reason Filled on 2002-12-3 02:31:51, Tuesday
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I don't know what your game is. It's like this... from 2 1/2 onward, I was left alone with a Bible and with God, and no human intervention. Just a private faith, learning and growing... ...then, at 12, my family sent me to a school. This school claimed to be a Christian school; were it not identifying, I could name the sole Christian there amongst the faculty. I give thanks that it was he who was the bible teacher. He was, however, very discreet and passive, the whole point of his lessons going unnoticed for quite some time, lest he be discovered as an overt heretic. ...fast-forward, 7 years of wandering later, God walks up to me (well, 'walk' is a bit non-literal, but...) and politely informs me that I do not at all have to follow a religion of hatred to follow Him, and in fact, he held following Him to be rather of better fruit. I never strayed again. Erred, yes, strayed, no. As you may have noticed, having God and the bible, and no human input, has given me a unique ideology. Better? Worse? For me, better; to speak for another is not an authority which I am given. Then I saw you, and a few others, drive away young Christians. If one under Jesus' name strives by their judgement to drive away, I find I must strive to make the one driven welcome, to let them come to Him, to stand amongst those gathered in His name without fear of judgement, nor the pointing of fingers, nor the condemnation of those who stand - as all do - equal before God, imperfect and falliable, without authority to judge the servant of another. In this, as in all service, I have no regard for whether I am exalted as righteous or denounced as evil by men, for Jesus has spoken on those who have love of the honor of man's judgement of holiness. I have no regard for any law of man, no matter to whom or what it be ascribed, for love of God and fellow being is the whole of the law, its fulfillment, and where a thing stand against this must they stand disregarded; where a matter usurp the place of this which Jesus order, it must be cast down. I have little regard of this world, and must have none if I am to do that for which I am called. I do care for the one driven away. |
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