Christianese cont......
HELP! I feel like it's my husband and I against the world, including against the whole church of America, which views wealth transfer as the be all and end all of answers. Lord, why? I don't understand.
In any case, here's another example of Christianese.
"God showed me I need to trust him for my husband's heart, whether he is a Christian or not." This was uttered by a 25 yo Christian woman who has traveled overseas numerous times on short term mission vacations (oops, trips) and spent tens of thousands of dollars going to Oral Roberts University (gotta love the stewardship of Richard Roberts, his spendthrift ways are an inspiration to all....NOT) so as to sit under the tutelage of professors with a Christian worldview, in order to justify her emotional involvement with a non-Christian (in fact, not only non-Christian, but one who was raised Hindu---speaking of which, how do you know what caste you're born into?) Sigh. I guess the Bible's admonition about being unequally yoked really doesn't apply in this situation because......oh, yeah, it doesn't apply because well...the Bible doesn't apply in these situations.
"If you're interested in a man who is a Christian and he falls away, that allows you to pursue non-Christian men as long as they are *good* men". Okay, Biblically again, this is so off. Using this logic, if you're interested in a Christian man and he falls away (before marriage) and you then think this is a license to pursue unbelievers, then is it not also a license to pursue women? Okay...that is sick...but it is logical, using this poor logic as your reason for justifying a relationship between a Christian woman and a man who has actively rejected Christ. (Remember, Jesus said, "He who is not with me is against me.")
Again, if you claim Christ, and have gone on several missions trips to help spread the gospel because you honestly believe that those who die without Christ are condemned to hell and separation from God for eternity, why would you then even entertain the idea of entering into a covenantal marriage relationship with said person so that your offspring (remember in Malachi the Lord says that he desires Godly offspring) can be raised by a parent with a non-Christian (i.e. Hindu) worldview? If you do entertain such a notion, it is obvious to me that you really don't care about your future children, nor do you really care what God has to say on the matter.
Thus endeth my rant for the day. More to follow!
In any case, here's another example of Christianese.
"God showed me I need to trust him for my husband's heart, whether he is a Christian or not." This was uttered by a 25 yo Christian woman who has traveled overseas numerous times on short term mission vacations (oops, trips) and spent tens of thousands of dollars going to Oral Roberts University (gotta love the stewardship of Richard Roberts, his spendthrift ways are an inspiration to all....NOT) so as to sit under the tutelage of professors with a Christian worldview, in order to justify her emotional involvement with a non-Christian (in fact, not only non-Christian, but one who was raised Hindu---speaking of which, how do you know what caste you're born into?) Sigh. I guess the Bible's admonition about being unequally yoked really doesn't apply in this situation because......oh, yeah, it doesn't apply because well...the Bible doesn't apply in these situations.
"If you're interested in a man who is a Christian and he falls away, that allows you to pursue non-Christian men as long as they are *good* men". Okay, Biblically again, this is so off. Using this logic, if you're interested in a Christian man and he falls away (before marriage) and you then think this is a license to pursue unbelievers, then is it not also a license to pursue women? Okay...that is sick...but it is logical, using this poor logic as your reason for justifying a relationship between a Christian woman and a man who has actively rejected Christ. (Remember, Jesus said, "He who is not with me is against me.")
Again, if you claim Christ, and have gone on several missions trips to help spread the gospel because you honestly believe that those who die without Christ are condemned to hell and separation from God for eternity, why would you then even entertain the idea of entering into a covenantal marriage relationship with said person so that your offspring (remember in Malachi the Lord says that he desires Godly offspring) can be raised by a parent with a non-Christian (i.e. Hindu) worldview? If you do entertain such a notion, it is obvious to me that you really don't care about your future children, nor do you really care what God has to say on the matter.
Thus endeth my rant for the day. More to follow!
posted by Lisa aka Mombley | 6:43 AM
1 Comments:
While we could never sit in judgement of anyone lest we ourselves fall short.We can judge a behaviour as Biblical or not. For anyone who applys literal verses of our handbook/Bible its a given as to the proper course for anyone in that situation. Heavy counseling to avoid a probably bad marriage here would or should have been encouraged by this womans church. All can be done successfully in love and matter of factly. After all, church discipline and the counsel of our elders is always demonstrated in the Bible. SAdly, this woman probably sees a misguided evangelical apt. with this man. Where are our church leaders and our Titus 2 women ? Ask yourself if you see an error are you yourself addressing it or are we just condoning it in our silence? Are we so politically correct that even in church we're seeing silence rather than accountability and true leadership?
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