My Journal

1Corinthians 6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

The following is taken in part from a 1984 copy of the SCP
Newsletter. Please note that the source of this material has a
decided (negative) bias against the Local Church.

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Sometimes, I don't really see what non-profit organizations mean.[@more@]

It appears to me that there are quite a few who claim to be christians "converted" to Christianity not truly because of their sins, but mainly because of their suffering prior to being a christian, and when they heard the Gospel, they find it comforting to their suffering, and church people are nicer to them than whom they've encountered before, and so they converted, admitting they are sinners verbally in order to be baptized and be accepted. Nonetheless, they do not know truly what repent means, they just change to be nicer, more loving, kind and so on, as if a robber who is converted to Buddhism.

One can tell this by seeing how they still value their past as a pride thing.

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The more I see the errors of mankind, the more it is necessary for us to hold on to "soli Deo gloria" to God only be the glory.

So much have been happening around the world, things we do we think it's good, charity which made us proud, what value is it? If it be not Soli Deo Gloria. Whatever excuse we give, it's no use. Nor can we pretend to say "Soli Deo Gloria".

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During a fellowship at Faith Bible Church in Flushing, I once heard a pastor's wife said: Heaven needs no geniuses.

Really? I wonder from which Bible passage she's gotten this revelation.

Had it been "Heaven needs no proud people", it may have been more acceptable.

Heaven needs no geniuses? Well then, her heaven is a heaven without God I supposed.

God created geniuses. Being a genius is not a sin. It's an opportunity to glorify God.

Unfortunately, there are also many christians who think they are geniuses for being "creative" (especially in California), while actually they got the dummest idea.

My conclusion would be, if you had gotten something without any pride not even subconscious one whatsoever but only glorification to God, then it's a miracle. Miracles happen everytime. One needs not to wait for certain sign to call it a miracle. If you had gotten something with pride while still able "pretend" to glorify God, be aware, be very very careful. Something is not quite right there.

As I have said before, some christians think they know love better than God, than Christ, and they would never admit that their love is better than God's.

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Although there are many missionaries, pastors, one must be truly called by God to serve, to be a true servant of God.

The
calling of God is not ambition. One must be clear of God's calling. If
one is unclear, how could he dare to serve? humility? Nay, such
humility is fake and it's even worse than pride. An excuse from
responsibilities.

True, there could be mistakes, but one must be bold to keep working for God, if mistakes were made, correct them immediately.

Nonetheless,
if one is not called by God, one cannot even begin presume these
responsibilities. As Martin Luther once said, one must in fact run away
from these as if running away from hell's fire. (According to Dr.
Stephen Tong, I have yet to confirm this myself).

Anyway, one who
is called must also be holy. Then there's a question where if one
sinned, would that void his calling? The question would be relative.
Because God's calling is up to God, not up to man. However, God's
servants must also keep themselves in check with God. So, only those
who are called by God would have to honestly search for the answer as
to why he sinned, what's next. Many however, would just take God's
forgiveness for granted and presume that God's still using them, while
in fact they were actually being pitied by their congregations hidden
by the fake respect shown by the congregations. Therefore, there's no
absolute answer to this.

As to telling if one is called by God. I
would say it is easier to tell if one is not called by God than to tell
if one is truly called by God. Nonetheless, in time, either answers
should be quite clear. It is just sad that many would be afraid to
"judge" this. It has become a habit where even when one admitted one is
not a christian, other christians would still like to believe this
answer to be abstract, relative, and therefore still assume one is
christian...or...almost christian, and "preach" but actually treated
him as if he's christian. Therefore, it is clear that the Truth has
been obscured once more. Very sad.

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Sure, no problem.

When God respects human freedom, that means God let them continue sinning against Him.

Then you might say, oh, I chose to become a Christian, I choose to do charity, I choose to comfort my close ones, all these good things, how can they be sin?

From man's point of view, yes, you actively used your freedom to choose. However, in the fullness of the event, you were not able to choose this if God has not at some point "fixed" you. For we have no freedom of such eversince they are corrupted when Adam fell, until Christ dwell in us, giving us a renewed life, thus obtaining such freedom.

Then you might say, well, what about non-believers, buddhists, muslims, many of them do good, charity, but they don't believe in Christ. Then you see, when they have achieved their charity, they will not glorify God, they will not give praise to the one true God, hence, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. The motive was already of selfish intention. Nevertheless, by these deeds, they could gain God's acceptance, while salvation is still yet a second phase, so that they will know, all praise is left for God, not for themselves.

The Truth shall set you Free. And Christ is the Truth.

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