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Matthew 5:6 KJV, "[Jesus said] Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."
(Please note how this post is initiated and premised upon The Word of God, rather than with the chatty little phrases, "I think ... " or "It seems ... " Lol.)
Jesus never said anything about "visitors" being sensitively accommodated to. This is because when a person is hungering and thirsting after righteousness that person will do whatever it takes to quench their thirst. Such a person will be quite self motivated to apprehend God. They will not be put off by any chatty and intuitive little inconveniences shown to them as a "visitor." They will ignore "nice things" offered to them because they want the real answers, not superficial little attractions.
Speaking of superficial, the reason Middle Class American Believers are so concerned about luring "visitors" into church and "being nice" to them with the "Love of Jesus", and cannot understand the need for true hunger and thirst Jesus was speaking of, is that they have never had to hunger and thirst for much of anything in their Middle Class American lives. They have been handed on a platter the Gospel, their White racial status, their economic resources, all the food they want, and their historic social privilege without ever having to hunger and thirst for any of those things. That is why they cannot understand and cannot remember Jesus saying a person is more Blessed to have hungered and thirsted for righteousness far more than someone who just automatically received gifts and information from Mom and Dad, Grandma and Grandpa, nice friends, and their Pastor.
In Revelation 13:16 Jesus even says He will "spew out" lukewarm Believers, and will receive those who are either spiritually "Hot" or "Cold." Jesus is not interested in casual and lukewarm visitors, and certainly is not interested in casual and lukewarm Believers.
Are you going to respond with what you "Think" and how you "Feel", as if human thinking and human feelings are to modify or displace the clear Words of Scripture?
Lol.
(Please note how this post is initiated and premised upon The Word of God, rather than with the chatty little phrases, "I think ... " or "It seems ... " Lol.)
Jesus never said anything about "visitors" being sensitively accommodated to. This is because when a person is hungering and thirsting after righteousness that person will do whatever it takes to quench their thirst. Such a person will be quite self motivated to apprehend God. They will not be put off by any chatty and intuitive little inconveniences shown to them as a "visitor." They will ignore "nice things" offered to them because they want the real answers, not superficial little attractions.
Speaking of superficial, the reason Middle Class American Believers are so concerned about luring "visitors" into church and "being nice" to them with the "Love of Jesus", and cannot understand the need for true hunger and thirst Jesus was speaking of, is that they have never had to hunger and thirst for much of anything in their Middle Class American lives. They have been handed on a platter the Gospel, their White racial status, their economic resources, all the food they want, and their historic social privilege without ever having to hunger and thirst for any of those things. That is why they cannot understand and cannot remember Jesus saying a person is more Blessed to have hungered and thirsted for righteousness far more than someone who just automatically received gifts and information from Mom and Dad, Grandma and Grandpa, nice friends, and their Pastor.
In Revelation 13:16 Jesus even says He will "spew out" lukewarm Believers, and will receive those who are either spiritually "Hot" or "Cold." Jesus is not interested in casual and lukewarm visitors, and certainly is not interested in casual and lukewarm Believers.
Are you going to respond with what you "Think" and how you "Feel", as if human thinking and human feelings are to modify or displace the clear Words of Scripture?
Lol.
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