<<Please re-read the above statement. Look at the divisive way that you phrased that. Even if you believe it, you could have said "mistaken" or "confused", or just "misguided". Instead you chose to say "thief and robber" as if someone was trying to attack you, or take something away from you.>>
Mark, these aren't words I picked up out of the blue, they are the words of Jesus Christ.
John 10:10 Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
God is very jealous over His people and warns them of danger, as a true Shepard would.
<<I thnk that people would be more open to your words, if you used language that was less insulting. >>
That's the exact same thing people were telling Jesus in those days,
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is a hard saying, who can hear it?.....From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
-Chris |