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Of course, I was doing this before it was cool: HT: Ken Silva
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If you believe 9/11 was an inside job...
... and you're a Christian, please keep your mouth closed about it for the next several days. Let the people who mourn, mourn. Based on what Jesus said, you may even stow any pride you have because you're not "an unthinking sheep" and put your arm around someone who still needs it. Thanks, and may God bless you for it. PS : After that, you may want to reconsider a belief popularized by a young dude who, wanting his fifteen minutes, set out to create a fictional screen play based on the events of 9/11. Google it. Then, feel free to reinvest any lost hours into kingdom work. Don't let an enticing conspiracy theory rob you of precious time. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths . As for you, always be sober-minded , endure suffering, do the work of an evange...
An example of what still makes this a good nation
For your Independence Day edification: Like most stories, we probably won't know the details such as motivations and the like. I prefer to take it at face value, with the hopes that this was a kind, Christian gesture.
Use of edgy material to promote church
Why should ministers take care with the words they use? Consider what Christ had to say to the Pharisees in Mt 12:34–37: You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned. Among the requirements of those who oversee God's people are "above reproach," "self-controlled," "respectable," and "must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace" (1 Tm 3:1–7). None of this is true of the man who uses his pulpit for shock purposes. Yet, as A Little Leaven points out, parents are now having to explain to their children and to their lost friends why their ...