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Opinion Question: What You Think is Approved of and Disapproved of for the Body of Christ.

Here's my list, please share yours.

Approved
Decent Lyric Soft Rock Music
Christian Soft Rock
E Rated Nintendo Games
Iphones
Androids
Computers
Hiking
Skateboarding
Skiing
Karate
Basketball
Baseball
Golf
Soccer
Ice Skating
Roller Skating/Blading
Downloading Legal Stuff
Drawing/Writing/Reading
Photography
Chess/Checkers
Ethical Board Games
Ethical Card Games
Diet Soda
100 Percent Juice
Snowboarding
Glassblowing
Camping
Weight Lifting
Painting
Super Mario
G Rated Movies
Computer Programming
High Definition Television
Puzzles
Audio Editing/Producing/Playing
Ballet and Hip Hop Dancing
Abiding with the Law of God
Building Each Other Up With Positivity


Disapproved
Computer chip implants
Yoga
Tarot Card Readings
MMA
Boxing
Metal Music
Football
Hockey
Illegal Downloading
Smoking
Drugs
Alcohol
Energy Drinks
Clubbing
High Sugar Soda
Sugar Added Juice Drinks
Hunting
Bowling
Archery
R Rated Movies
T and M Rated Games
Anime
Low Definition Television
Innapropriate Dancing
Unethical Behavior
Putdowns and Negativity

Have Blessed Night - Iggy
 
Approved = Sanctified Activities.
Disapproved = Unsanctified Activities.

Eph 4:1-3 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the calling with which you are called, (2) with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, (3) endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
 
I don't know what you are using as the criteria for choosing your activities but based on this listing, you would find me disapproved. I do enjoy an occasional beer or other alcoholic drink. I do take drugs prescribed by my doctor as well as some OTC versions. I do enjoy an occasional cigar. I do enjoy watching a football game once in a while. I do enjoy watching a hockey game once in a while. Oh yes, I enjoy baseball, soccer, basketball too. I am a hunter, fisherman, and I enjoy shooting sports. Guess I'm on the fast track to hell.
 
Hi WIP I am Sorry for Offending you. I may be way off because "our thoughts are not like God's thoughts". But I believe also that the fun things we enjoy in this life that God is not a fan of may be replaced with something better in Heaven. For I believe that maybe there are many great things God hasn't revealed to us yet but is waiting til Heaven. Again I am sorry and I was just focused on having ideas to help along the Body of Christ and the things we do to be approved of by Everyone. I may be wrong in multiple areas, I may be right in some areas. And I don't think you are a bad Christian. If you believe God approves, keep doing ALL you are doing. Have a blessed Day. - Ignacio
 
Here's my list, please share yours.

Approved
Decent Lyric Soft Rock Music
Christian Soft Rock
E Rated Nintendo Games
Iphones
Androids
Computers
Hiking
Skateboarding
Skiing
Karate
Basketball
Baseball
Golf
Soccer
Ice Skating
Roller Skating/Blading
Downloading Legal Stuff
Drawing/Writing/Reading
Photography
Chess/Checkers
Ethical Board Games
Ethical Card Games
Diet Soda
100 Percent Juice
Snowboarding
Glassblowing
Camping
Weight Lifting
Painting
Super Mario
G Rated Movies
Computer Programming
High Definition Television
Puzzles
Audio Editing/Producing/Playing
Ballet and Hip Hop Dancing
Abiding with the Law of God
Building Each Other Up With Positivity


Disapproved
Computer chip implants
Yoga
Tarot Card Readings
MMA
Boxing
Metal Music
Football
Hockey
Illegal Downloading
Smoking
Drugs
Alcohol
Energy Drinks
Clubbing
High Sugar Soda
Sugar Added Juice Drinks
Hunting
Bowling
Archery
R Rated Movies
T and M Rated Games
Anime
Low Definition Television
Innapropriate Dancing
Unethical Behavior
Putdowns and Negativity

Have Blessed Night - Iggy

I had a guy once ask me how close to the border of sin he could get before he was guilty of doing wrong. He wanted to know where the line was between sin and not-sin so that he could stand as close to the line as possible without crossing it. I told him that God calls us, not to search for the "line of sin," but to move as close to Him as possible. When we are doing so, we don't ever have to worry about crossing the "line of sin," or fuss about where, exactly, that line is.

Christians who make lists about what, precisely, is moral or immoral, spiritual or carnal, often (though, not always) are doing so because they aren't crowding up close to God, focused tightly upon Him. No, they've got half an eye (or both eyes) fixed on the World, the Flesh (and the devil, by extension), trying to walk on the fence between God's way and their own way (which doesn't actually exist). This double-mindedness leads to general spiritual and moral instability (James 1:8) and confusion which, in turn, leads to the attempt to clarify what is morally right or wrong. But this moral clarification easily becomes legalism, which always results in hypocrisy and sin (consider the Pharisees and scribes of Jesus' time).

God's way to a holy life isn't by way of detailed lists of right and wrong things that seek to find and delineate the boundary between moral/spiritual good and bad, but by submitting to Him in love and faith throughout every day and by drawing close to Him - and staying close.

2 Corinthians 3:18
18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

James 4:6-10
6 ...“God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.


Hebrews 12:1-3
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.

Ephesians 5:1
1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

Ephesians 5:8-9
8 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
9 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),


Philippians 4:8
8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.


When you are enjoying holy fellowship with God every day, when His Holy Spirit is in constant control of you, filling you with all the goodness that he is, your eyes will be fastened upon the holy glory of your Maker such that anything that at all hinders or diminishes your view of Him you will immediately cast away from yourself. God's means, then, to a holy life isn't in an exhaustive list of do's and don'ts, right things and wrong things, but in intimate, joyful, loving communion with Him all the time. Are you growing into such an experience of Him?
 
Hey All,
What is your criteria for which is good or bad SupporterOfChristo. Why is Karate, baseball, and basketball OK, while football, hockey, and boxing are not? Other than the unethical, and inappropriate that may rise to sin level, nothing else on the lists (good or bad) is a sin unto itself.
Keep walking everybody. May God bless,
Taz
 
Here's my list, please share yours.

Approved
Decent Lyric Soft Rock Music
Christian Soft Rock
E Rated Nintendo Games
Iphones
Androids
Computers
Hiking
Skateboarding
Skiing
Karate
Basketball
Baseball
Golf
Soccer
Ice Skating
Roller Skating/Blading
Downloading Legal Stuff
Drawing/Writing/Reading
Photography
Chess/Checkers
Ethical Board Games
Ethical Card Games
Diet Soda
100 Percent Juice
Snowboarding
Glassblowing
Camping
Weight Lifting
Painting
Super Mario
G Rated Movies
Computer Programming
High Definition Television
Puzzles
Audio Editing/Producing/Playing
Ballet and Hip Hop Dancing
Abiding with the Law of God
Building Each Other Up With Positivity


Disapproved
Computer chip implants
Yoga
Tarot Card Readings
MMA
Boxing
Metal Music
Football
Hockey
Illegal Downloading
Smoking
Drugs
Alcohol
Energy Drinks
Clubbing
High Sugar Soda
Sugar Added Juice Drinks
Hunting
Bowling
Archery
R Rated Movies
T and M Rated Games
Anime
Low Definition Television
Innapropriate Dancing
Unethical Behavior
Putdowns and Negativity

Have Blessed Night - Iggy
Your list really should have been in a different forum.

It would have been interesting to discuss.
This is a non-debate forum and is restrictive.

Try the Lounge?
 
Ok sorry. Could you move it. forhisglory moved one over to another. thanks.

But anyways to answer the people here with saying I chose right and wrong based on what I feel in my heart and what I am convicted to possibly be true. Some things I may be wrong some right.

I like Who Me'z comment that the spirit of the law is to be observed.

I pray for the spirit of the law to be observed and kept strongly in all the Believers hearts. I am probably not alone here, but need to accept the world the way it is even though many things are not how I would want them to be. I need to focus on the good that is left in the world. And look forward to the future ahead. Peace - Iggy
 
I don't know what you are using as the criteria for choosing your activities but based on this listing, you would find me disapproved. I do enjoy an occasional beer or other alcoholic drink. I do take drugs prescribed by my doctor as well as some OTC versions. I do enjoy an occasional cigar. I do enjoy watching a football game once in a while. I do enjoy watching a hockey game once in a while. Oh yes, I enjoy baseball, soccer, basketball too. I am a hunter, fisherman, and I enjoy shooting sports. Guess I'm on the fast track to hell.

I'll see if he wishes to discuss things a little further, WIP, but so you understand, this is a Hispanic thing. Hispanics have a habit of categorizing various activities as either black or white, good or bad. In some ways it can be a good protective measure, as it's an easy way to avoid things that might be spiritually dangerous. But it becomes a bit problematic if and when they get judgmental about it, although as you can see from his response, that doesn't appear to have been his motive or intent. :)
 
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What’s wrong with bowling? 🤣...and alcohol? As long as someone doesn’t do it with the intention of becoming drunk and disorderly, I don’t see the issue. I enjoy 1 or 2 glasses of wine sometimes. Actually, I disagree with many of the things on your disapproved list.
 
Hi WIP I am Sorry for Offending you. I may be way off because "our thoughts are not like God's thoughts". But I believe also that the fun things we enjoy in this life that God is not a fan of may be replaced with something better in Heaven. For I believe that maybe there are many great things God hasn't revealed to us yet but is waiting til Heaven. Again I am sorry and I was just focused on having ideas to help along the Body of Christ and the things we do to be approved of by Everyone. I may be wrong in multiple areas, I may be right in some areas. And I don't think you are a bad Christian. If you believe God approves, keep doing ALL you are doing. Have a blessed Day. - Ignacio
My apologies. I never took offense. My reply was mostly tongue-in-cheek.
 
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