Lon
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I'm sure that's true...but I can't believe that any man who earnestly seeks and desires God will fail to find him. Because if not, if God would allow that then nothing can be certain and no man is assured of more than his own hope...that's too bleak for me.
I think there's a lot of non salvific dogma that clutters the landscape and divides the faithful. I'm sure some of it is important and I'm confident that if I manage to get any of that wrong along the way Christ will correct me, either in this world or the next.
Mostly I'm interested in spreading the compassion and joy and abundance I've been given through no merit of my own. The more I think about it, the more I contemplate the cross the more I'm driven toward that.
Yeah, but you chose us and don't hate us. You aren't here to tell us day in and day out that we are ungodly for being trinitarian. You are faithful to a local body and orthodox doctrine.
God can save whom He will but we can't fellowship where one is against us and contentious. It disrupts the Body and fellowship. So, it is rather, for me, what accompanies the poor doctrine than merely the poor doctrine itself. If there is an attack on the main of the BoC, then we need to practice discernment. If we stand for nothing, we will fall from within and without. Inviting the contentious just isn't wise. Perhaps they will learn from being around us and if we are wise and gentle, but I'm not sure TOL is set up for that long-term if even short-term.