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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

plea for unity

when our father laid out his plan for the church, body of believers, i do not believe he intended for us to strong arm each other or force our own beliefs on each other. we are to actually search his word and develop our own faith built upon what is written in his inspired word with liberal prayer and fasting added. yes, i did add fasting, something that i had never truly  done until recently. i ask you to please bear with me as i try to present my position. no this time it is not, first person. when king david went dancing in the street singing and dancing naked, i do not believe that was god inspired. however, god was pleased by his worship. he did not rebuke king david for it, on the contrary, he rebuked davids wife for her attitude about davids worship. i am not by the way advocated naked street dancing. jesus didnt rebuke the pharasees for their lack of worship. they worshiped all the time. they just did it wrong. they were to caught up in the how not the why. in other words they forgot that god wants ourhearts. he is more concerned about where our hearts are in worship than if we are in a building, singing, dancing, or playing in a band. what we cannot forget is that we are here to serve others not be served. that means that if we wash another brother or sisters feet fora time then we do so. paul and barnabas did have a split over john mark as was mentioned in class. yet because of barnabas,the great encourager, john mark later became one of pauls greatest souces of comfort.

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