Comments on: What’s on my mind https://gracebug.menterz.com/?p=232 capturing moments of grace Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:41:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: totallysurrendered https://gracebug.menterz.com/?p=232#comment-172 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:40:44 +0000 http://totallysurrendered.wordpress.com/?p=232#comment-172 Thanks for the prayers! They’re always welcome and needed.

]]> By: Gary https://gracebug.menterz.com/?p=232#comment-171 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:44:56 +0000 http://totallysurrendered.wordpress.com/?p=232#comment-171 I see your point. Many people talk the talk, but don’t really make the effort. I guess I would just say that one of the most difficult aspects of being a follower of Christ is setting your eample in such a way that others will respond favorably to you and to Christ, rather than feel put off or feel judged by you. That is a challenge I face today, and have faced for many years. If you can master that, then you will sway more people than you can possibly imagine! My prayers are with you! Thanks for having such a fine understanding of the situation at such an early age!

]]> By: totallysurrendered https://gracebug.menterz.com/?p=232#comment-170 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:38:51 +0000 http://totallysurrendered.wordpress.com/?p=232#comment-170 As humans it’s impossible to be perfect. As christians it is our duty to try to be like christ(who is perfect). What frustrates me is people who are saying “I am representing christ” and then they don’t even try to represent him.

It is true, I’m a poser. There are days when I really don’t feel like living like Christ, but I have to overcome if I want to call myself a christian.

I believe it’s important to set a model for the “posers” and help friends get to a point in their life where they can say that they’re not a poser anymore. Even if I think someone is a poser, that doesn’t stop me from pressing toward christ with my relationship with them.

Thanks for the post, btw ;)

]]> By: Gary https://gracebug.menterz.com/?p=232#comment-169 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:00:11 +0000 http://totallysurrendered.wordpress.com/?p=232#comment-169 To paraphrase…. all are posers and have come short of the glory of God. My impression of what you are saying is that posers are Christians who still sin? Christians who are still hypocritical in various ways? What is it about being Christian that makes you think the sin and the hypocrisy will end when a person quits posing and becomes a sincere Christian? Sin and hypocrisy are with us for life as an integral part of being imperfect humans. Jesus met up with all kinds of people who were posers, but He did not proclaim to the world, “I don’t like posers!” If He had, He wouldn’t be much of a role model, would He? Could not an argument be made then that a Christian who doesn’t like poser Christians is also a poser? If so, then this implies that one of the biggest difficulties with pointing out and labeling posers is the line from the end of one’s finger eventually comes back around to label the pointer! Surely there must be a better way to help the posers, rather than drawing lines and pointing out boundaries? Perhaps I have misunderstood your meaning…..

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