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Originally Posted by OBW
In effect we are still buying half of their lie.
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I'm no longer looking for the "perfect" or "pure" recovered or re-created church. Any group that bases itself on the notion that everyone else is hopelessly corrupted and should effectively be shunned is starting off on the wrong foot.
Contrast that to Jesus' answer to the question: "Who is my neighbor?" Your neighbor may not be so pure, but bloody and beaten. Error upon error.
Hopefully our Brazilian friend is more open today to Christianity, impurity and all. I know that my views have changed over the past 5 years. I am more accepting of things the way they are. Like Paul said, I can be all things to all people (Catholic, EO, Protestant, etc etc) to by all means gain some. Not to gain them to my supposedly purified theology or purified group, but by my receiving them, that Christ would gain them more. And as I do to others (facilitate Christ being wrought in them), God will do to me. This is the promise from God, and I take it as holy law, not to be broken.