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  1. FredVB

    How has church changed for you since this pandemic started?

    I did not think I should speak for them. But from a reference just one time to a church organization it is involved with I saw at the time that it split from the American Baptist organization over a biblical position about homosexuality being addressed, but it would be against the law now for it...
  2. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    It used to be said, as it was in a song, they shall know we are Christians by our love. Very long ago Christians could have been known by their love, and it really was a testimony for Christianity. But in these times there are no nonchristians saying Christians can be known by their love...
  3. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    Enemies! What about loving when we have enemies?? This is actually where any real loving from us would make a great difference. One of my friends wrote this... I can be the biggest hypocrite sometimes. I'm often not very good at practicing what I preach. It's not that I want to be hypocritical...
  4. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    Jesus shows mercy, love, compassion, patience, and caring for others in many ways. This is an example to us. The downtrodden are not to be neglected. As the model for us he never limited compassion. No one is more compassionate than Jesus, Jesus is more compassionate. If we follow Jesus indeed...
  5. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    People grate on each other, because of differences among each other and things we disagree on. Without any love we would not get along. There is love so that we do manage to get along. But we see how the world is, and more love from us is needed. Love in us for others without limiting it keeps...
  6. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    If God was not love and yet Creator making everything of creation life would be hellish. Those who do not believe there is God have it very wrong, not seeing provision in everything. We need deliverance from the curse which spreads from sinful disobedience with wickedness and destructiveness...
  7. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    Any peace on earth only comes about what we learn to love God with every part of our being. God's grace is enabling. God is not willing that any just perish, but would that all would come to repentance with which there is salvation. And there is provision for growth with that. People will...
  8. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    If we came to Jesus Christ ever repenting to turn from life with sin to live in him, such that we are believers who are in Christ, we are not condemned even when we stumble into sin, even with not having feelings, of forgiveness or for faithful living. Yet we need to turn to Jesus Christ our...
  9. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    God is good, and because God is good, God is just, God is loving, God is caring, God is merciful, and God is gracious. All that God is, is without limit. And God is fair. None of us in this world are in the position to say we love perfectly. God loves all his creatures. It would be right if we...
  10. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    Being a Christian believer means there is to be a life that goes way beyond how others, including many of those generally known as Christian, live. Spiritual growth needs to go in that direction. We should become like Christ in our growth, he was modeling for us how we who are his followers are...
  11. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    There is faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love. Love is greater than faith and it is greater than hope. This love mentioned is not the feelings often referred to as love, it is the caring and compassion, just as that is in the love from God. With essential faith that any are...
  12. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    Leviticus 19:18 "You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh." 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a...
  13. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    We would limit love and other fruits of the Spirit even with just making exceptions, but it is not from God's will for us. Exceptions we make will be arbitrary, and so more exceptions would be made, and love and fruits of the Spirit generally will not grow further. Jesus Christ did not mean for...
  14. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    There is room always for more love, yet there is also more room for selfish choices, hate, compromise, and sin, and with our nature it is easy to neglect love.
  15. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    Indeed without loving others we are lacking in loving God. Love is neglected often when it should not be. Jesus Christ provides the only way for reconciliation with God with salvation. Being peacemakers was important in the message from Jesus, along with acting with love and compassion and...
  16. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    Love without reference to God will tend to fall very short. Atheists are at a disadvantage in that very thing. And we can be so sure of what God is like through Jesus Christ, who reveals enough for that. The Creator cares for all in the creation, as is shown of the beginning, God is not limited...
  17. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    Can it be that fright is a good thing if it's applied judiciously? Is it just as wise to be afraid of God as it is wise to be afraid of cactus spines, a mule's kick, or a forest fire? If we live in fear, we do not do anything other than how we live that avoids risking what we fear. Fear is not...
  18. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    God is our example, as Jesus had said, "Be then perfect, as (for) your Father in Heaven is perfect." (Matthew 5:48) God is not limiting love and caring for God's creatures, Jesus also is showing that in the incarnation he is called the Son of God, so that the heavenly Father would be known as...
  19. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    Lacking tolerance of other people is such lack of love. We can speak of the gospel, and repentance from sin, but it is not a witness to others without love shown. Jesus is the example to us for that. We will not find others just like us, and that is not the point.
  20. FredVB

    Peace, Love, & Understanding

    Modern Christians, even though love is brought up in their communication, are generally showing a lack of that and other qualities Christian believers are to grow in, that they, as imitators of God, walk in love, as Christ showed his love, Ephesians 5:1-2, along with having joy, peace...
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