Message #14698

[Kilika]

ah, sure. But this guy is being propped up and when he falls off it is going to be an example of all Christians. Im sorry but his little finger waving at the sky isnt very helpful. His public displays benifit him nothing. Is he a pharrisee praying on the corner ripping his clothes and throwing dust on his head? or is he humble and does things in secret for the Lords benefit only?

christianity 101 here folks.

Now that is a good observation. I agree totally. Looking to be "seen of men". I hear ya bro! And the open prayer displays I have issue with as well.

I guess what I'm saying is that it isn't edifying but it's where he's at now. And Christ is preached ultimately, and that is what we rejoice over. None of us are perfect in our own ministry, right? We all have issues of some sort, and the one that claims they don't I call a liar who is deluded, so while he could be more edifying in his walk, it is where he is for now. Who knows how it will turn for somebody out there. God knows.

If he were to ask me how he should act, I'd be compelled to tell him to leave football and the world behind, and go full time doing the work of an evangalist.

And truth be told, if we were to COMPLETELY withdraw from the world, first, where do we go to seperate like that? There is no place to go, or we "must needs go out of the world"...

"I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil." John 17:15 (KJB)

9   I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 
10   Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 
11   But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 
12   For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 
13   But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. 
1 Corinthians 5:9-13 (KJB)