Comments on: save us from your followers http://www.lynseleanne.com/blog/2010/04/12/save-us-from-your-followers/ through my eyes. between my ears. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:45:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Faye http://www.lynseleanne.com/blog/2010/04/12/save-us-from-your-followers/comment-page-1/#comment-2639 Faye Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:11:20 +0000 http://www.lynseleanne.com/blog/?p=1941#comment-2639 1. I think that Satan has so calloused some believers into thinking that everyone should act like believers that they have become completely like the Pharisees who dominated Israel when Jesus came. Those are the ones who today will condemn you for your piercings, tattoos, words or actions. Those are the same ones who think "God helps those who help themselves" is in the Bible and only know what their preacher has spouted as truth from his pulpit, thus, they do what they do. Not judging them, but judging their fruit.... it stinketh. (That's KJV, you know.) 2. I've been convicted a lot over the past couple years about this. 1 Peter 3:15 says to be ready to give an answer when people ask about the hope in you. He doesn't say to bust up into their stuff with "You HAVE to listen to me!" I think he was saying that we'll have true hope shining out of us because we spend time with the One Who gives us that hope and that when people see that hope in hopeless circumstances, they will ask about it and we had better be prepared to explain (which really is our story of how Jesus has rescued us and given us a reason to live and hope.) What can we do better? Be considerate. Realize that people who are lost will act like they're lost. They won't speak our language, they won't think going to church is cool. They won't know love like we do. We've got the greatest gift ever and we want to beat them to death to take it. How stupid is that? The main thing, I think, is we must spend time with Jesus ourselves. If we don't, we can be just as judgmental as the next guy, maybe more so. But if we spend time with our Savior, the one we say we want others to know -- we'll look and love more like Him. 1. I think that Satan has so calloused some believers into thinking that everyone should act like believers that they have become completely like the Pharisees who dominated Israel when Jesus came. Those are the ones who today will condemn you for your piercings, tattoos, words or actions. Those are the same ones who think "God helps those who help themselves" is in the Bible and only know what their preacher has spouted as truth from his pulpit, thus, they do what they do. Not judging them, but judging their fruit…. it stinketh. (That's KJV, you know.)

2. I've been convicted a lot over the past couple years about this. 1 Peter 3:15 says to be ready to give an answer when people ask about the hope in you. He doesn't say to bust up into their stuff with "You HAVE to listen to me!" I think he was saying that we'll have true hope shining out of us because we spend time with the One Who gives us that hope and that when people see that hope in hopeless circumstances, they will ask about it and we had better be prepared to explain (which really is our story of how Jesus has rescued us and given us a reason to live and hope.)
What can we do better? Be considerate. Realize that people who are lost will act like they're lost. They won't speak our language, they won't think going to church is cool. They won't know love like we do. We've got the greatest gift ever and we want to beat them to death to take it. How stupid is that? The main thing, I think, is we must spend time with Jesus ourselves. If we don't, we can be just as judgmental as the next guy, maybe more so. But if we spend time with our Savior, the one we say we want others to know — we'll look and love more like Him.

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