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BlackEagle · 09-03-2012, 02:05 PM

Sad but true all too often.

I sometimes think of the Church as a garden with lots of different kinds of plants. Daffodils grow together, petunias grow together, etc.; grass grows everywhere; corn and potatoes grow there and produce their fruit;other plants, weeds, need to be taken out, but the different good plants are all welcome and part of the garden.

Christians need to realise that salvation is God's free gift and is on His terms, not ours, and comes from receiving Christ as Saviour.

I have seen lots of very animated discussions with high emotion in church courts over things that, in the long run, are not that important. Splitting theological hairs is needlessly divisive and is distracting rather than carrying out God's commands to us in Matt. 28:18-20.

Thanks for the humerous reminder, Jack.

Good one.

09-03-2012, 02:05 PM	#2
BlackEagle Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: UK Posts: 3,179	Re: ;) Sad but true all too often. I sometimes think of the Church as a garden with lots of different kinds of plants. Daffodils grow together, petunias grow together, etc.; grass grows everywhere; corn and potatoes grow there and produce their fruit;other plants, weeds, need to be taken out, but the different good plants are all welcome and part of the garden. Christians need to realise that salvation is God's free gift and is on His terms, not ours, and comes from receiving Christ as Saviour. I have seen lots of very animated discussions with high emotion in church courts over things that, in the long run, are not that important. Splitting theological hairs is needlessly divisive and is distracting rather than carrying out God's commands to us in Matt. 28:18-20. Thanks for the humerous reminder, Jack. Good one.