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Originally Posted by Drake
Sure... there are bones and plenty of them... and it doesn't take a genius to see them... nor would it be hard for a proud person to find faults 24 X 365 for years and years..... and yet how does such a person once in the slipstream of such a self-righteous attitude toward others ever break out of that deceptive infinite loop?
I don't know.....
Aren't chicken bones something everybody has to deal with? Sitting down for a good meal .....who spends time commiserating over the presence of bones.....you just avoid the bones.... its simple.
Witness Lee confessed to the presence of bones in his speaking, I have provided examples of what I considered bones in the ministry, from Brother Lee, from a blended brother, and from my firsthand experience. And yet, the crowd cried out for more, not good enough, you devious duck, you know what we want to hear....... bones dem bones, dey ain't real bones, gif us big bones, ugly ones, smellies, so's we can commise oe'r 'em.... and ketch ya... 
So, I go back to my original agreement with StG... just eat the chicken and spit out the bones... or the husks.. whatever!
Drake |
This reminds me a little of trying to pin my wife down on some thing that she has obviously (to me) not seen or done correctly. It usually doesn't go well and miscommunication abounds. ("And there you go again, not owning-up to your faults!") But I get all bothered because I think she should readily admit more fault. In the end, me trying to get her to own-up to something, probably causes more grief than the issue itself! ("Just why can't you see that HUGE spec in your eye?!") And then once again I am brought to the realization of how futile it is trying to get someone else to even see their shortcomings and/or do something about it (at least according to my perception of how all that should go).
I would like to think that I've gained some wisdom in this area, but it takes considerable diligence to keep my self-righteousness from getting all stirred-up in such things. Praise God for my wife!