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Angel said:
What do you think of that?

My concern is Christians love growing cold.
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I think that's a big concern. Focus on God and loving others, more then our losses and hopefully our Christian love won't go away.
 
lifeszero said:
What does that mean?
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For me there seems to be two fights going on in many aspects of Christianity. The fight for what's right, verses what's incorrect, or verses what's harmed or harmed another. And on that aspect being correct by the knowledge we have and correct errors, as well as holding justice and being fair and being treated fair come into play. Those are worth while things to pursue. However there is another fight to strive for as well. To stay true to your faith. To follow God, love your neighbor, be generous, merciful, kind, and even when we point out the faults of another do so for their benifit, not our own. With love for them.

The second struggle sometimes seems blinded by the need to right a wrong, whether it's injustice, or misinformation. I've seen people (myself included) forget to be Christian, while they defend Christianity. Or forget to be Christian when they fight for justice, or for things that were lost.

Hope that answers your question. Bitterness, and the fight for what's right may blind us from acting right ourselves. And in this case, make the love for another grow cold.
 
Not_Now.Soon said:
For me there seems to be two fights going on in many aspects of Christianity. The fight for what's right, verses what's incorrect, or verses what's harmed or harmed another. And on that aspect being correct by the knowledge we have and correct errors, as well as holding justice and being fair and being treated fair come into play. Those are worth while things to pursue. However there is another fight to strive for as well. To stay true to your faith. To follow God, love your neighbor, be generous, merciful, kind, and even when we point out the faults of another do so for their benifit, not our own. With love for them.

The second struggle sometimes seems blinded by the need to right a wrong, whether it's injustice, or misinformation. I've seen people (myself included) forget to be Christian, while they defend Christianity. Or forget to be Christian when they fight for justice, or for things that were lost.

Hope that answers your question. Bitterness, and the fight for what's right may blind us from acting right ourselves. And in this case, make the love for another grow cold.
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Better than one foot in the grave, and the other on the way to hell.
 
Most Christians are "double minded!" The scripture says give no place to the Devil. Remember, a little leaven leavens the whole lump.
 
What the Cross of Jesus Christ has done is given each of us the transference from that which can be shaken into an unshakeable kingdom. You have received entrance into a kingdom that cannot be shaken. It is not subject to any events happening around you. Friends, if you are only looking at the stock-market pages, the banking system, your job, co-workers, family members, health, relationships, or anything else you can see--you are looking at things that can be affected by what goes on around them. If that is all you can see, you will be shaken.

Seek Ye First The Kingdom Of God"
Many Christians worry about marriage, money, people, health, terrorism, and economic conditions. God says, "The antidote to worry is me being FIRST". Of all the problems we face, you name the category, to live in perpetual defeat over it, you must ask the question, "Have I addressed God FIRST"? God says, "I want to be FIRST". "Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God". If that is missing, then you have just identified the cause of everything else that's wrong.

God says, "the reason why you are shook up and worried is 'cause I'm not FIRST, SO YOU GET TO TAKE CARE OF YOU'!

"The priority of the Kingdom" is imperative. Because if you miss what's first it doesn't matter what else you do. You've lost the foundation. "Seek Ye First" gives you light from God, so that you know which way to go, which way to turn, which way to move, which way to act, which way to think, which way to walk, which way to talk, which way to relate. You know what to do because the light is shining. You lose that perspective, no wonder you're running into things, tripping over things, falling over things, because that which is light is now dark and you can't see.

Yes, we acknowledge Him, yes we reference Him, but that's not sufficient for Him. He wants FIRST!

Consult His word before you get everybody else's opinion, or you talk to people who are going to give God's word before you get the general view.

Christ is also the head of the church, which is his body. He is the beginning, supreme over all who rise from the dead. So he is first in everything. Colossians 1:18 NLT

There is a difference from good advice and Godly advice, you choose. Good advice is the spirit of the world, the flesh, human talk, double minded; you will get nothing from God. Godly advice is the Word of God; Cross talk. All things will be out of alignment in your life if God is not FIRST.
 
When a Christians love for Jesus has grown cold or lukewarm He says you have left your first love. Our Lord Jesus Christ takes this issue so seriously that unless we put our love for Him in first place where it belongs, nothing else we do for Him really matters. Cheap worship is the number one reason. God warned Cain in Genesis that If you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door ready to take you over! This is why a argument turns to a divorce, now a little problem becomes an addiction, why depression leads to suicide, and anger becomes murder. Because sin is now jumping all over you all because of your cheap worship. God demands to be first with your time, talent, and treasure. The only way to fix it He tells us is: Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works. (Remember - Repent - Return)
 
This is a subject I hold dear to my heart. The enemy doesn't have to do much as christian's do enough to destroy it for him. I too have lost love for others possibly because it has been so long since I've felt it.(excluding all of you however in my personal life it would be nice to feel a little more from others) However getting back into scripture (reading what you folk's post makes me look it up and read it for myself) I am starting to feel differently. It starts as noticing something positive instead of something negative and soon you notice more positive than negative. And that my friend's is the ONLY way we are truly going to win over the enemy and his attack on the church and Christianity. Love thy neighbor as yourself.
 
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