i kind of forgot to tell y'all this but i got my license!! it is very exciting!! yep, so there is that.
and then.....
the man that got killed in Afghanistan on september 24, was the husband of a friend that went to my old church. Joseph is the husband's name and Jessica is his wife's name. they were married in may of this year. she is doing really bad. so i would ask you all to pray for her and their families. i would greatly appreciate it and i know that they would also.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
confronting people
so i might not make sense on this post. i'm not really sure how to explain what i want to say. so if you know what i'm trying to say but don't think others will please write a comment. or even if i am completely wrong with how i am writing this write a comment. i would greatly appreciate it.
why don't friends confront their friends when they are sinning? why do you just let them keep scooting backwards from God? why don't you just ask the Lord for strength and confront them in a godly, i want to help you follow Christ way? is it because you don't want to lose them as a friend or is it because you just can't do it? those aren't very good reasons. do you know how important it is to tell someone that they are sinning? if no one ever did that we would have really no Christians.
i have recently confronted one of my friends and if i hadn't who knows what would have happened if she kept on sinning (just so you know she repented and is right with God now). who cares if you lose their friendship? well, you would. that is what kept me from going to my friend. i had told myself for the longest time that i needed to talk to her but i then told myself that she would not be my friend after i talked with her. that was on my mind alot. i was thinking like a week later and this is what i thought, "trying to win her back to Christ and telling her that she is sinning is way more important then our friendship." it might seem like i don't care about my friend but i do. i love her to death!! i had wrote everything down that i wanted to say to her and was going to call her, actually i was going to call her today, but Christ had His own plan and brought it before today. but i was prepared to talk to her. and like i said she saw that she was sinning and repented! that made my day! to see her come back to Christ was just wonderful!
but if you are planning on going to someone and tell them that they are sinning you need to first make sure that you are not going to be a hypocrite and tell them something that you yourself are doing. you need to get the log out of your own eye before you go after the speck in your friend's. (Matthew 7:5). BUT if you are the one who is being confronted and the person who is confronting you didn't get the log out of his own eye first don't go and attack him (so to speak). say to him, "thank you for telling me. i appreciate you coming to me." and if it's true, then you should go and take care of your sin and repent. then after you have done that you can go to that person, IF they have not themselves repented of that sin, and tell them that you have seen a pattern of sin recently that you think they need to take care of. it is so important to go to or friend or your sibling and tell them that they are sinning. if you don't that sin might cause them to keep scooting farther and farther from God.
why don't friends confront their friends when they are sinning? why do you just let them keep scooting backwards from God? why don't you just ask the Lord for strength and confront them in a godly, i want to help you follow Christ way? is it because you don't want to lose them as a friend or is it because you just can't do it? those aren't very good reasons. do you know how important it is to tell someone that they are sinning? if no one ever did that we would have really no Christians.
i have recently confronted one of my friends and if i hadn't who knows what would have happened if she kept on sinning (just so you know she repented and is right with God now). who cares if you lose their friendship? well, you would. that is what kept me from going to my friend. i had told myself for the longest time that i needed to talk to her but i then told myself that she would not be my friend after i talked with her. that was on my mind alot. i was thinking like a week later and this is what i thought, "trying to win her back to Christ and telling her that she is sinning is way more important then our friendship." it might seem like i don't care about my friend but i do. i love her to death!! i had wrote everything down that i wanted to say to her and was going to call her, actually i was going to call her today, but Christ had His own plan and brought it before today. but i was prepared to talk to her. and like i said she saw that she was sinning and repented! that made my day! to see her come back to Christ was just wonderful!
but if you are planning on going to someone and tell them that they are sinning you need to first make sure that you are not going to be a hypocrite and tell them something that you yourself are doing. you need to get the log out of your own eye before you go after the speck in your friend's. (Matthew 7:5). BUT if you are the one who is being confronted and the person who is confronting you didn't get the log out of his own eye first don't go and attack him (so to speak). say to him, "thank you for telling me. i appreciate you coming to me." and if it's true, then you should go and take care of your sin and repent. then after you have done that you can go to that person, IF they have not themselves repented of that sin, and tell them that you have seen a pattern of sin recently that you think they need to take care of. it is so important to go to or friend or your sibling and tell them that they are sinning. if you don't that sin might cause them to keep scooting farther and farther from God.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Bible class
in my Bible class today my teacher, mr. brix, told a story. he was on a plane ride and was seated next to a man who happened to be a muslim. the man was very nervous about something. he was shaking that's how nervous he was. that made mr. brix nervous because it was the year 2001 right after 9/11. so mr. brix decided to share the gospel with this man. the problem with this man though was that he would not admit that he had done anything wrong in his life. he said that he wasn't what mr. brix told him that everyone else is, a sinner.
mr. brix asked, "you have never done anything wrong? not even something small?" the man said , "well, i guess i have done something really small. but that doesn't matter."
mr. brix thought of an illustration. he said, "i have a clean, white sheet of paper here. lets say it represents perfection. lets also say that any mark on the paper represents sin." mr. brix started to put pen marks all over the paper. in the man's mind most people had many marks on their paper. but he did not, he lived a good life. mr. brix asked, "if you have a sheet of paper and it represents your life and it only has one dot on it. is it still a clean sheet of paper?" the man said, "no, its not." mr. brix said, "so it doesn't matter if it has many marks on it or just one. neither of them level up to the perfection of God. and neither can enter His presence of holiness. sure some have sinned more than others. but all have sinned and come short of the glory of God."
mr. brix asked, "you have never done anything wrong? not even something small?" the man said , "well, i guess i have done something really small. but that doesn't matter."
mr. brix thought of an illustration. he said, "i have a clean, white sheet of paper here. lets say it represents perfection. lets also say that any mark on the paper represents sin." mr. brix started to put pen marks all over the paper. in the man's mind most people had many marks on their paper. but he did not, he lived a good life. mr. brix asked, "if you have a sheet of paper and it represents your life and it only has one dot on it. is it still a clean sheet of paper?" the man said, "no, its not." mr. brix said, "so it doesn't matter if it has many marks on it or just one. neither of them level up to the perfection of God. and neither can enter His presence of holiness. sure some have sinned more than others. but all have sinned and come short of the glory of God."
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