Ok,
I listened (read)..
in case you don't have me on ignore... and others also....
I was not one of those people in your past...if a couple remarks trigger bad memories ..that is not a cue for me to stop posting for the rest of my life.
What I post is in scripture and SOP...if people are emphasizing it in an unbalanced way or spinning it into a crossless, unloving, legalistic, graceless,unmerciful way...they will be accountable for that.
I posted what I did because I see churchians live spiritually drunk like they have binged drunk vodka or tequilla.
I see gross neglect of sanctifying scripture from the pulpit
AND IT HAPPENED AGAIN TODAY!!
Pastors are cooks/chefs to feed the flock...
refer to Jesus and Peter conversation.."Do you love me?"
I know the crowd you fell into the trap with ..I used to hang around them and it affected me too.
The Holy Spirit impressed on me the purpose of the cross then.
But I did not trash the rest of it and just hang crosses on my neck..I saw the balance of what God does for us and what He does through us.
It is really PATHETIC the balance I detect now...
Look at the introduction to this quarter's SSL..not posted on this site...THE INTRO...
The question part about..
"Is anyone above listening?" "Is there anyone above us?"
The reason He asks that is that there are too few down below who are others/altruisitc centered.
The masses are programmed to be complacent , apathetic, passive, indifferent, exclusive plastic, shallow, selfish snobs...gimmee, gimmee, gimmee, I need , I need..