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>color="#880000">Yes Cezoram I know and I do, have
>and will always encourage others to do the same.
David,
You encourage repentance? According to the scriptures, encouraging repentance is just not good enough. Jesus commanded us to repent, rather than encourage us to do so. Jesus did not simply say that He was encouraging His listeners to repent, but it did not really matter, because repentance really wasn't that important. If an encouraging Jesus is the kind of Jesus you are proclaiming, then you proclaim a different Jesus than I do.
>Personally, I think you are trying to predict what
>will happen and are reading too much into President
>McMurray's letter of invitation.
Reading too much into Grant's letter? I have read speeches from Grant in the past. Should I not read his letter of invitation while keeping in mind what he has said in the past? Are you saying that he has changed? Should we read anything into Grant's letter? Or should we just see it as an unsincere attempt at an invitation?
>As a missionary in
>the church, I can tell you repentance is preached,
>taught and encouraged.
Here it is encouraged again. The prophets of the Old Testament did not just encourage people to repent. They demanded repentance. They were stoned to death for doing so. Only proud people will be offended when they are told to repent. The humble people will gladly repent. If repentance is preached and taught in the church, why have I not seen it in any of Grant's speeches or letters? Does he understand the concept of repentance and the importance of it?
>We are working on a website
>that will call people to repentance, you should like
>it.
Yes, I will like it, if it really calls people to repentance. But if it only encourages people to repent, I will not like it. I doubt if the Community of Christ will really call people to repentance, because such a call would conflict with the idea of a diverse body of people where everyone is valued for who or what they are. Repentance demands change. Acceptance of diversity does not. If you accept everyone no matter how diverse they are, they will not have to change in any way. Repentance does not fit in to the mission of the church. Repentance requires judgment. Each person must look at themselves, discern what in their life is in opposition to God, pass judgment against those things, and then humble themselves before God, admitting that they are nothing and God is everything. I do not see this happening in the C of C today.
>face="Trebuchet MS" color="#880000">I don't have time
>to visit often. I am working on putting the BOM,
>D&C and IV in a searchable web application.
>Getting the Herald House store online and preparing an
>online and offline pastoral resource element.
I think it is great what you are putting on the web. But is it enough?
>I just thought the introduction to the seekers was
>appropriate because I don't agree with your analogy of
>blind leading the blind.
I acknowledge your disagreeing with my analogy, but I still hold to this analogy, because I believe it is true.
>No matter what you say,
>this will always be the church that was restored by
>Jesus Christ through his servant Joseph Smith.
Yes, Jesus Christ restored His church through Joseph Smith, Jr. After Smith's death, the church split, but the RLDS was organized as the continuation of the restored church. But that was not good enough for the leaders of the church, so the leaders of the church have reformed the church. The Community of Christ is no longer that restored church, because it has been reformed by man. The restored church was not good enough for the leaders of the organization you belong to, so the leaders relied on the arm of flesh, rather than the arm of the Lord. This is why the C of C is the "Blind Leading the Blind".
>I believe people should have the opportunity to find
>Jesus and grow in God through this restored church
>that seeks diligently to hear and obey the will of
>God.
Correction: Reformed church, not restored.
>face="Trebuchet MS" color="#880000">Our paths are
>different, our goal is the same.
Our goal is not the same. The C of C has a goal to be this great organization of community, social justice, and reconcilation to man. My church, as well as other restoration branches, has the goal of total submission to God through faith, repentance, and baptism, so that one day, Zion will come upon the Earth and the Lord Jesus will reign among us for 1000 years. The C of C has its priorities mixed up.
>May you be blessed in
>your journey and may people see Jesus Christ in your
>words and deeds. May you seek the lost and may they
>see the light of Christ through you.
>
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