Dear Church, Here's Why People Are Really Leaving You

[footwasher]

No, the burr under your saddle made YOU think that.


You're really not very good at this, are you? And you accuse ME of reading comprehension?

I think you should change your name from "Footwasher" (which brings about the image of humility and service) to "PotStirrer".

Care to answer the objection rather than engage in ad homs?

Show me my wrong comprehension.

I appreciate disciplining, having being shocked into awareness on significant occasions in the past. I was so wrong!

Hebrews 12:8,9.

[Cow Poke]

Care to answer the objection rather than engage in ad homs?

This coming from the guy who likens God blessing a Church to a God blessing a bingo parlor!

[footwasher]

Never? Not even as recently as Post # 56 in this very thread?

The fact that I don't play Bible Battle with you hurling unrelated verses does not mean I'm not engaging the subject. I just don't see using the Word of God as a series of daggers with which to accost a brother. I hold the Bible much more dear than that.

You needed haulin' up before you "recently" repented from your "previous" disingenuity?

[footwasher]

2 Corinthians 10:1Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent! 2I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh. 3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, 4for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. 5We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, 6and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.

This coming from the guy who likens God blessing a Church to a God blessing a bingo parlor!

Back to ignoring the discussion.

The biblical way to handle these type "guys":

"Tearing down strongholds, demolishing every speculation".

[Cow Poke]

You needed haulin' up before you "recently" repented from your "previous" disingenuity?

FW,

This is a classic example of your goofiness -- what, exactly, have I "repented" from? And WHO, exactly, gave me a "haulin' up"?

You do this goofy assault on others, then whine and cry about ad homs.....

How, exactly, does this demonstrate the spirit of a "foot washer"?

CP

[Cow Poke]

I do know, for a fact, that one of the things that really turns people off about the Church is hypocrisy. Somebody, for example, who would claim to be a "foot washer", yet sows discord among the brethren. This is a mockery of the very attitude Jesus was teaching when He, the MASTER of the UNIVERSE, knelt before the disciples to wash their feet.

Call it an ad hom if you wish, but it's my observation of your conduct here.

[footwasher]

FW,

This is a classic example of your goofiness -- what, exactly, have I "repented" from? And WHO, exactly, gave me a "haulin' up"?

You do this goofy assault on others, then whine and cry about ad homs.....

How, exactly, does this demonstrate the spirit of a "foot washer"?

CP

The fact that OBP never proved I was casting aspersion forced you to try and respond rather than engage in ad homs.

Try this method if you want to minister:

Matthew 16:32. I don't mind the Biblical method.

Actually, please. If you don't know how, at least let those who can, destroy the assertions I make.

[Cow Poke]

The fact that OBP never proved I was casting aspersion forced you to try and respond rather than engage in ad homs.

[Sparko]

Footwasher, why WOULD Cow Poke bother responding to you? You have been acting like a hateful twit the whole time. You are looking for ammunition to stab a brother in the back with.

[footwasher]

This explain anything:

Luke 12:53"Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division;

?

Really, set me straight, and ad homs won't do it.

Footwasher, why WOULD Cow Poke bother responding to you? You have been acting like a hateful twit the whole time. You are looking for ammunition to stab a brother in the back with.

[Cow Poke]

Actually, please. If you don't know how, at least let those who can, destroy the assertions I make.

This is incredibly self-centered.

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[Cow Poke]

Footwasher, why WOULD Cow Poke bother responding to you? You have been acting like a hateful twit the whole time. You are looking for ammunition to stab a brother in the back with.

I'm beginning to think he's just a -- or somebody hacked his account.

[Sparko]

It's like Mickiel 2.0

[Cow Poke]

It's like Mickiel 2.0

Except he an speel.

[Sparko]

Except he an speel.

eh?