Singularity wrote:
You are to fight the evil that creeps into your own heart and is expressed in your own actions.
As for others, you are NOT to judge, nor seek to interfere, uninvited. You are directed to leave it to the god to sort them out as it does not trust your human faculties to understand or your human brokenness to deal with such matters.
Good Morning Vietn...er...Sing!
True...except it isn't that God doesn't
trust us in our dealings with unbelievers so much as it's God's job to woo them.
God speaks in many ways but kicking in the door to a person's heart isn't one of them. He knocks like any normal person would.
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You, it directs to withdraw once your gospel message is rejected, to hide and huddle together in your safe places (homes?
churches?) till it sends someone responsible to bring you home.
Familiar with the term "cold sales"? Ever had someone knock on your door and try to sell you a freezer full of meat or a vacuum cleaner?
Unless you've already been thinking about acquiring such a thing, visits like that are a nuisance.
A good salesman isn't heartbroken or irritated at rejection. Neither does he go home or back to the office and sit around waiting for a prospect to call or his boss to tell him what to do next. A good Christian shouldn't do those things either because like the salesman we're supposed to know what our job is and what it isn't.
The JWs are big on door to door sales, so to speak. I've seen them doing it on Christmas Day.
Needless to say, they are not often well-received and they use that fact and a Scripture or two to attribute this to being the "persecuted" people Jesus told His followers they would be. I can see how that might cause confusion.
Can you imagine
me huddling somewhere?
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14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16. What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, âI will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,  18 and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.â
14Â Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Fo... (
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Since I already know
you know who I am and what I'm about to a degree, I'm assuming you also know I will speak of God and Scripture
occasionally.
Hope that don't bug ya.