Comments on: Christian = A Change In [your] Lifestyle.

by: Screech

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:23:55 +0000

I totally agree with your point…the undertone of that guy’s request was pretty easy to see. Honestly, no matter how mature a Christian of the opposite gender is, I wouldn’t share anything I drank out of with them unless I was married to them. I don’t know how everyone feels about this, but I feel that something like sharing one’s own food or drinks is pretty personal. Of course, I have no problem sharing part of a 6-pack of pop, or a handful of chips out of a bag…

by: Carson

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:30:23 +0000

Well I don’t think it’s being judgmental to state an obvious fact. If a someone claims to be a Christian, but doesn’t “bear fruit”, and isn’t even trying to walk with Christ, then I would submit that there isn’t a real faith there. Faith without works is dead after all. Maybe I’m just sensitive to this issue cause there are so many people like that in my youth group, and it frustrates me so. And it’s not that I dislike them, it’s just that they don’t even realize they’re lost…

by: Anika Q

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:07:48 +0000

Thanks for the clarification. The church is so entrenched in easy-believism that many people are trying to get balance. The problem is we can sometimes swing too far the opposite way. I am just dissappointed when people are so quick to pass someone off as an unbeliever when it could be that they are merely weak believers. It isn’t our job to judge. I understand now that your post was NOT intending to do that but was rather intended as a wake-up call to those who are not believers and to those who are believers but not showing it.

by: kpaulino

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:27:49 +0000

Thanks Anika. I didn’t mean to come off as judgmental, I was merely realizing that there was a reason I viewed him different and wanted to urge other believers to walk in Faith, and not use it as a title.

by: Anika Q

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:40:27 +0000

It is true that we should watch and judge ourselves to see whether or not we are showing the fruits of born-again people. And it is true that born again people WILL show fruits. However, I do not know that it is right to go around saying that ’so and so’ is not a brother or sister in Christ because of their behaviour. Now, you may be right in saying so. But one must realize that there are those who are ‘weak in the faith’, and we are told not to cause any of Jesus’ ‘little ones’ to stumble. The best thing to do is NOT make judgments and help them.