Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
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"It is more therapeutic to be forgiving than to be
correct."
Jinny Worrell
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America and her churches
are being sucked dry of the rivers of living water because we/they
are obsessed compulsively with being correct at the expense of
obedience to His command to love and forgive.
Jesus taught us
to pray, "And forgive us our debts/trespasses/sins as we have forgiven those who have
debted/trespassed/sinned against us."
Matthew 7:12 also
comes to mind.
Getting back
to prayer which would not be a bad idea for America and her churches to resume
this Thursday (5/7), did you know that aforementioned part of "The Lord's
Prayer" is the only part that He expounded upon immediately after offering
it?
He said,
"For if you forgive, you will be forgiven; but if you don't forgive, you
will not be forgiven."
Whoa.
Think about it.
There seems to be
more than existential implications to that declarative.
Apparently, too
many of America's churches don't believe that because they certainly don't
behave like that's/He's their g(G)overnor.
Think about it.
If Jesus was/is
more concerned about us being correct than loving by forgiving, we'd all go to
hell for sure.
Buuuuuuut - Praise the
Lord!!! - we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus.
In other words,
while we pray and labor to be better
in thanks to God for salvation by grace through faith in Jesus,
we'll never be good enough not
to need to be saved by grace
through faith in Jesus.
If too many
American churches would get that/Him, they'd cut each other a little more slack
like He does and
not expect the impossible; which, again, btw for yu'uns that forget or
ignore or defy or self-righteously assume, is why we know the only way that we get in is by grace through
faith in Jesus.
Let me put it
another way.
Read Paul's
letters after ya read the red print.
No one who does
that can come away apart from the conclusion that Jesus was more about gospel
than law.
C'mon, "Not
the works of my hands can fulfill the law's demands."
C'mon, AA is
right: "Do your best and leave the rest to God."
C'mon, forgive!
That's WJWD!
ISIS
wouldn't/won't/doesn't.
Think about it.
Ouch.
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Do you see that
quote up there by Jinny?
Great saint.
Our mentoring
matriarch.
Bill said,
"She was the Mother Teresa of Lincoln and Main."
Already
legendary.
You can hear more
about her by going to www.bnnsradio.com
and pulling down the archive for her 5/3 memorial/resurrection service; and
there's a tribute trailer from Bill at the end of the recording that's been
attached by Bill. Bill's tribute can also be heard in the archived
version of the 5/4 second worship service that also includes some great music
by our adult choir and children.
Picking up the
mantle from her grandmother, you'll be especially blessed by Lydia's tribute to
her as tribute Him.
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What's wrong with
sooooooo many of
today's American churches?
Duh.
It ain't that
complicated.
They're more
about being correct than loving.
They're more
about everything and everyone than Jesus.
How can anyone
like moi say that?
Because sooooooo many of today's
American churches are more like those unforgiving...uh...than Jesus.
It's not a big
leap from chopping off relationships to chopping off...
Read a little
history.
Uh, we're still
making it.
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Scratching the Surface
of
Troubled Churches
(Helping
Hints for Healing Troubled Churches and People)
Some
things aren’t that complicated.
Many
churches in America are troubled.
10+
churches close their doors for good/bad/ugly every day.
The diagnosis
and prescription aren’t that complicated.
Troubled
churches have not been loving Jesus by loving like Jesus.
Churches
get better when they start loving Jesus by loving like Jesus.
Some
things aren’t that complicated.
Many
people are flushed, rushed, and razzle-dazzled.
Stressed
out.
Transferring
that stress to others; or as a shrink said, “Troubled people tend to be
constipated. That’s why they dump on
you.”
Stressed
out.
Internalizing
in self-destructive ways; or as Mark Hopkins wrote, “Last year, across the
nation, 38,364 people committed suicide…Research tells us that one in seven of
our youth report having thoughts of suicide…The question perplexing the experts
is ‘Why?’…What is creating the stress that makes suicide a better alternative for
the afflicted than living?”
Stressed
out.
I heard a
talking radio head say 75% of Americans take prescribed or
non-prescribed/and/illegal meds because they are sooooooo stressed out.
The
diagnosis and prescription aren’t that complicated.
Troubled
people are not that intimate with Jesus.
People
get better when they get closer to Jesus.
Jesus promised, "Come to Me, everyone who is weary and burdened, and I will take care of you."
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Oops!
Did I make a
mistake with that last video?
Isn't he the same
John who said, "The Beatles are more popular than Jesus"?
Heaven straight, he was!
He was not
boasting.
He was lamenting.
Only the ignorant
missed that; and only the ignorant miss the truth in the lyrics of
"imagining" a world more about love than law being more consistent
with Jesus than...
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"The agenda for today's church is to discover what is
permanent...before it
was covered with the dust and debris of 2K years of church
history...
This is not another gospel but the same ancient gospel
rediscovered for today."
Hans Kung
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Blessings and Love!
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