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Originally Posted by Abounding
I have seen this posted quite a bit. When I first saw it I thought that is was interesting. Some points are quite true. It was when a facebook contact from the LC posted it that I thought it was offensive. I felt that they consider where I attend now to be "religion", while I consider them to be "religion" I think what happens is saten comes into religion and tries to ruin it. This video is an exsample of satan trying to turn people away from God. They will think that they just won't meet with other believers because it is all hypocrisy. This is what divides the body.
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I started to agree with ToGodAlone. But on a second look, I don't think it is over the top. It may not simply be "when Satan comes" to ruin things. But it is a sort of "get it right the first time or don' try" attitude.
You know the old saying "if at first you don't succeed, then skydiving is not for you." Well the Christian life is not skydiving. It is trying and failing in an environment in which you are encouraged to get up and try again, not one in which you either succeed the first time or you are dead.
And trying is not contrary to the gospel. No, you don't "get saved" (at least initial salvation) by trying. But you when it comes to sanctification, if you don't try, you can't succeed. If you don't step out in faith, then the evidence is that you must not really have any. And you fail because you did not try. It is not a Jedi thing in which it is simply do or do not. But you should undertake it as if you are to do. Even if you fail.