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1 | What would make this allogory? | 1 John 3:2 | bibleman12 | 214236 | ||
Hi Cheri, Your welcome is very thoughtful. I was beginning to think that no body wanted me on this forum. I agree concerning the masterpiece. Sometimes I think about our church as a bouquet. An arrangement with many different colors of flowers. While a lot of things have changed for my people in the last few months, still it seems that many churches are still isolated with one race on Sunday morning. |
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2 | What would make this allogory? | 1 John 3:2 | stjohn | 214240 | ||
Hi Bibleman You most certainly are welcome at this forum! I'd like to add my two widows mites again, if I may. In mostly urban and some poor areas, neighborhoods that are still segregated, do unfortunately, still have segregated congregations. But this is in many cases, geographical. I think too that, this is gradually becoming less and less of the norm. In many rural and suburban areas of the US, many of the neighborhoods that are culturally and racially mixed, do reflect this in the mixing of the cultures and races found in many Churches that are outside of segregated neighborhoods. The problem with us humans is, we tend to like to hang out with people that look act and talk just like us. And this will still lead to some of us jugging others that we don't understand too well. As Christians though, we can be a light to the unsaved world, in how we are supposed to act toward everyone, regardless of race creed or culture. John |
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3 | What would make this allogory? | 1 John 3:2 | bibleman12 | 214241 | ||
Hi John, Thanks for the welcome as well. You seem to really understand the problems with relationships with various people groups. Do you attend a interracial church? |
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4 | What would make this allogory? | 1 John 3:2 | stjohn | 214243 | ||
Do I attended an interracial Church? Not too much, mostly white, though our pastor is half Mexican and has an African American uncle, and there are a few Asians and a few other Mexicans and some of Jewish descent. I honestly hadn't payed that close attention to that. Now that I think about it though, we are more mixed then I would have thought. I'm not trying to paint myself to be some kind of wonderful insightful kind of guy, (I'm most often not) but I do sometimes tend to pay attention to what people say about people, and check it out for myself. For instance, I've often heard that Mexicans are lazy, but I've worked with many of them, and I haven't really met that lazy one yet. And, the people who say those kind of things, are usually siting on their butt doing nothing but complain. I've heard too, that Blacks are inherently dishonest, but most that I know are markedly just as honest as anyone else, and hardworking too, I might add. And most of the Jews I know are fairly generous and certainly not any more stingy then the general population, though many would have us believe they are cheep. Of course there are those who are a discredit to any race or culture, and complainers tend to like to focus on just them. And I believe I'm not alone in this way of thinking. There are far too many in government and on the media who like to focus on the negative and say we are still so very divided, but I wish they would just shut up! Anyway, thats Just few of my observations. Just a friendly reminder bibleman, this is a Bible study and though I don't think anyone minds too much in our getting to know one another a little bit; After all fellowship is an important part of being a Christian and our Bible study should reflect that. But we do need to try to keep this site focused on Bible study as that is the wishes of our host and is clearly spelled out in the TOU. So here's a passage for us to contemplate; let us strive to emulate and imitate Paul, as he strove to imitate Christ. Phillippians 3:8-16 8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— 10 h that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Straining Toward the Goal 12 Not that I have already l obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. 16 Only let us hold true to what we have attained. ESV John |
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