Reasonable people

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 I had a pretty profound discussion yesterday about some Biblical things.  I have to say that the words I spoke were not my own, but those that the Holy Spirit gave me to speak because I really needed to speak the Truth.  Not my truth but God's Truth from His Holy Word.  

It was a good conversation.  I had to differentiate between judging someone and making a judgment about a thing.  One is Biblical, the other is something believers do at their own peril.  In the defense of making a judgment about the subject at hand I had to explain to the person I was speaking with that I struggled with my own sins in the area of conversation so I was in no position to judge anyone.

We spoke of Jesus eating with sinners and he very much did.  But He did more than that, He called them to repentance.  Think back to the man lowered through the roof by his four friends.  They hoped for a physical healing.  The first thing Jesus did was to forgive his sins.  When he healed another man, Jesus told the man to stop sinning so nothing worse happened to him in the future.  He told the woman caught in adultery to go and sin no more.  Jesus forgives our sins; He and He alone paid the price for sin on the cross.  

We spoke of hypocrites.  I'm not sure if the intimation was that I was being one, but I also spoke of what Paul wrote specifically about the subject at hand and how believers wee supposed to react to other believers.  I like what my pastor said last Sunday about sinners being in church.  We are all sinners and we should love on people so they come and hear the Word of God preached in the hope that it leads to repentance and salvation for everyone. That's kind of the idea.

We talked too about giving up the high ground.  I mentioned that when any church goes against Bible teaching to accommodate a popular world view, it's giving up its' ability to enforce church discipline in other areas.  

All in all, I think it was a good conversation.  I don't know that either of us is going to change our stance, but I think we have a mutual understanding of where each other is.  And like I told the man, "as long as we are right with the only One who matters, we have nothing to worry about."


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