tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503559743795412933.post8295868674185891506..comments2018-11-09T12:39:59.298+04:00Comments on Word Ventures Blog: LIP SERVICEjodias27http://www.blogger.com/profile/02295612986975319893noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503559743795412933.post-66228344712525851372012-10-24T08:36:45.644+04:002012-10-24T08:36:45.644+04:00POSTED BY PASTOR 'D' - Please ask your fri...POSTED BY PASTOR 'D' - Please ask your friend Mr. Paleri if he has a book in stock called "The Grace Awakening" by Charles Swindoll. In my opinion, I rate this book as one of the top 5 most important Christian books written in the past 50 years. The book deals with 2 types of Christians: Grace-givers and Grace-killers. The latter are born-again Pharisees, people who spend their time being judgmental about others. But Jesus tells us to judge no one except ourselves. Of course, there are obvious examples of people whose conduct is glaringly and consistently different from their preaching. On the other hand, we are all sinners, and no one is perfect. The Pharisees would have excluded Noah as a drunkard, Abraham as a liar, who had sex with his housemaid, Jacob as a deceiver, David as a murderer and an adulterer, Peter and the other apostles as betrayers, Paul as a murderer, etc. Did these people fail to walk the talk? Yes!<br /> <br />But God's amazing grace, and the almighty blood of Christ redeems them, and sets them up as the crème de la crème among Christians. Do we know the precise details of other people's lives, heart-attitudes, etc.? I have had to minister to sisters who were forced, at certain times in their lives, to sell their bodies, simply to find money to feed their children and family members! This is why every form of judgmentalism is to me the worst kind of sin. We are all sinners, full of spiritual pride, and have no right to judge others, except, as I said, those who would drag other people into loss of salvation by their consistent sin and false teaching.<br />jodias27https://www.blogger.com/profile/02295612986975319893noreply@blogger.com