Speak for yourself. Everyone knows that God and Jesus are absentee fathers. Although quite prolific in ancient times.....................apparently.
This post was edited by Zack at January 25, 2018 5:50 PM MST
Most Christians agree that the believer can find Jesus within his or her own heart through prayer and meditation. For some, the spirit of Jesus will answer by bestowing redemption, unconditional love and forgiveness, and resistance to temptation. For the non-believer, this is an interesting exercise in how the mind can influence itself in the direction of its choice.
He's there---not finding him is a fault in the one who is looking.
And if one wants Him in his life on a regular basis, one needs to pay more attention to Him or He will appear to drift away again.
This post was edited by tom jackson at January 18, 2018 3:54 AM MST
Revelation 3:20, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hears my voice, and open the door, I will come into him and will sup with him, and he with me.”
Someone's knockin' at the door, somebody's ringin' the bell..let him in... -Song Lyrics.
This post was edited by Beans/SilentGeneration at January 18, 2018 3:55 AM MST
In the 19th century Americans started moving west and three institutions went with them. There was vaudeville, traveling entertainment. There was lyceum, traveling education and culture. And there was the itinerant preacher, offering a new style of preaching called "hell fire and brim stone". It was very entertaining, only loosely based on scripture, and pastors didn't even try to compete. Instead they switched to preaching public morality and philosophy. Eventually an entire generation grew up not knowing the first thing about the religion they claimed to believe. That is why most Christian churches don't teach doctrines, and most members don't know what they are supposed to believe.
2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.