Conscience

Eric on Wednesday June 6th, 2012

There are a great number of problems to be found inside most Kingdom Halls:

Gossip, cliques, favoritism, nepotism, good-old-boy networks, hidden sin, arrogance, etc.

Do you agree with this statement? How about this one:

There are a great number of problems to be found inside most Christian churches:

Gossip, cliques, favoritism, nepotism, good-old-boy networks, hidden sin, arrogance, etc.

If they are both true, then what does that mean? If both statements are oversimplifications and exaggerations, then what does that mean?

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andrew on Sunday February 5th, 2012

The organization that we were a part of has a definite structure of rules. Many of these rules go “beyond the things written” (1 Corinthians 4:6). It must be admitted that this structure helped some spiritually immature ones avoid some harmful things. However, the same structure stunted the growth of our conscience. Many of the […]

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Eric on Thursday April 7th, 2011

As I was tucking in my daughter last night she asked me why we have to be so different. Her exact words were:

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There’s these boys at school always bugging me about birthdays, saying ‘Why don’t you celebrate your birthday? Isn’t that the most important day of the year for you? It is for me…’
And sometimes I get it because I know we don’t celebrate birthdays because the only two people that did it in the Bible got their heads cut off. And I know that when we are born we haven’t really done anything yet either. But… I still don’t really get it!

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She doesn’t get it- how interesting; how perfect! My beautiful, intelligent, innocent daughter doesn’t get it…

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