Three for One

One:

If you do not read Free Grace Theology from Antonio, you are missing a treat.

Whether you are a Calvanist, an Armenian, a Calmenian, an Arvanist, he has a very interesting and arresting style of writing and is, shall we say, firm in his theology.

Another interesting, thought provoking blog is Jeff H's Think Sink. Give these a shot and see whether you are challenged.

Two:

A further thought on my previous blog about commitment.

From the comments, there is some confusion as to what "commitment" means.

Let's put it this way: If "commitment" does not mean "determining to see something through to the end no matter what, never, never, never giving up, " then we are going to have to come up with a new word that does mean that.

But that won't be necessary, since we already have a word to mean that. The word is "Commitment."

Can you be committed and then quit being committed?

Not really.

You can be fervent about something and lose your fervency.

You can be emotionally involved with something and then lose your emotionalism about it (happens in lots of marriages).

You can be intellectually attached to something and then change your mind.

(You can be prohibited from fulfilling a commitment by outside forces over which you have no control, such as illness, injury, moving or the like, but these will not affect your commitment to the person of Christ.)

But, by definition, you cannot be committed to something and then come uncommitted.

That is not about salvation, it is about behavior and attitude.

I have iterated it once, and I now reiterate: Be committed to the Lord. You will thereby find His greatest joy for you.

Three:

Neither is yours.

A perfect church, that is.

There are no local congregations of believers (churches) that are perfect.

Now, if you could just get the people out of the churches you wouldn't have as many problems. But that might not work so well.

Let's face it. We are all human. We do stupid things. We do illogical things. We do unspiritual things. We say things we should not say. We think things we should not think. We make decisions we should not make. We go places we should not go.

And so on.

Christians are, by nature of their humanity, wierd. Christians are so wierd that if it were not for Jesus, I would not be one.

We are all members of the Body of Christ(the Church). But sometimes I think we have a few too many spleens and bile ducts and not enough hearts, feet and hands.

Which one are you, by the way?