Materialistic Christians

[tim-from-pa]

You are so right. But we have to live too, you know? All we can do is lower our standard of way of living. for instance, we are using computer to do much effective communication. We cannot give up everything in this already advanced techonology. We have to do our best with what we got. We have high tech; we use it for His purpose.

That's what's neat about web sites. The common guy like me can reach the whole world--- it's only a matter of making yourself visible enough so that everyone knows you are out there. Once that is accomplished, one can reach far and wide. Who would have ever thought it would come to this?

As for computers, nothing wrong with them. We have 4 in our house, 3 on the Internet. I built two of these things so it would not stretch the budget--- you can get a "bare bones" kits and make towers yourself cheap. Keyboards and mice are cheap, and usually someone has an old monitor that they don't want any longer (but even the CRT ones are becoming cheap--- around $100)

 

[HisFriend]

Tim, are you a member of prosperity church? (Word of faith) I mean.

Nope. I am a member of a mainline church, but I do extensive bible study, have my own site, and saw in the scriptures things like this regarding blessings.

The main idea I was trying to convey was that we did not inherit all these blessings out of the blue, or because we were just Christians, per se. These are national promises as well.

We should share our blessings to all who needs it. We have many many people can use our matelial blessings. Jesus is expecting us to hsare our blessings. It should not be just 10 % of our income. Most of us can afford to give much more than 10% of our income.

Jesus would really like it if we gave up everything. Love does not try to justify how much; it just goes all the way.

You are so right. But we have to live too, you know? All we can do is lower our standard of way of living. for instance, we are using computer to do much effective communication. We cannot give up everything in this already advanced techonology. We have to do our best with what we got. We have high tech; we use it for His purpose.

Depends. If Jesus calls you to do something that would involve giving up these things then you must give them up. Jesus gave up absolutely everything, even his own life. He did not give it all up at once. He just started giving it all away until he had nothing left.

 

[gingercat]

I admire your loyalty and faithfulness , Hisfriend. :angel: