About five or so years ago, your hero, I, was at the gym working on his triceps. There I ran into a lovely Christian sister named Michelle Taylor. She was playing volleyball, and like I said, I was working on my triceps. (They needed some work.) As I was walking out, Michelle ran up to me and asked me how I was doing. Physically I was doing great! (Beside my triceps.) Emotionally, I was alright. Spiritually, I was struggling.
“I’m doing great," I lied.
“No you’re not. Do you have any close guy friends who encourage you in your walk with Jesus?”
I thought for awhile, and I didn’t. She then went on to say, “by this time next week, you better find an accountability partner, or else!” Two days later, out of fear of Michelle Taylor, I started meeting with Micah Welch. (Insert background music: Crazier by Taylor Swift.) We've been meeting eversince.
Micah Leaves for Moody Bible Institute today. Through him, just like through many things, God showed me Grace.
I think in mainstream Christianity, accountability partners could be just another rule or law that The Church sets up because they want to perform better. Often a meeting would consist of both partners sharing how bad they suck and how they want to raise their Christian batting averages. They would then pray for each other and not see each other for a week.
I think often we forget that Jesus died on a cross, even when we sucked. Christianity isn’t about personal performance. It’s about relying on the perfect performance of a perfect savior, Jesus Christ.
I think one thing Micah and I did well was that when we came to each other broken because of our sin, we reminded each other that God loves us despite what we’ve done. Its only when we rely on God’s work and not our own work, we change for the better.
Micah has always encouraged me to run hard after the Lord, he has rebuked me when I indulged in sin, he has loved me even if I’ve done him wrong. He has never once condemned me or told me I had fallen from grace. He’s always reminded me that I am God’s son even when a lot of the times I bared no family resemblance. He has loved me, even when I didn’t love myself. He has been an amazing leader, and a great example! I love you bro!
James 5:15-16
And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
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The gods just manufactured the tactic of the Holocaust to accomplish the goals they planned.
I am of the opinion the gods would have interviened in its absence, illustrating their claims of being good, and established "old world" dictatorship control at the dawn of mankind's mass moral deterioration. Purely speculation, I conceed, and a total waste of time which distracts from important work we are all responsible for, but even without the Holocaust the gods would have manufactured something that would allow them to manage their culpability and justify their lack of divine intervention. After all, we all abide by their chronology.
Another feature which the Gods offer as a clue is very foreboading and ominous. Mt. Zion is a mountain to the north of Diablo (the eye of The Beast) and one which has a working quarry at its base. Consistant with the decay we experience in society, Mt. Zion is being eaten away, slowly stripped of its resources, until one day paradise will be gone forever.
Population explosion is a clue::::The gods are sending everyone back for The End.
There must be some purgatory-like place. Or individual. Like an animal.
Now the gods have sent everyone back to try for one final time to fix their problems and ascend into heaven. Avoiding an animal would have been a big positive because those thrust into this decayed enviornment have less of a chance than those who enjoyed the god's generosity of a slowly decaying enviornment with frightening clues, like the Depression, World at War, the Holocaust, etc.
Anything that can get the poeple frightened and praying is a good. thing. Contentment never motivated anyone.
As we see wickedness spread throughout the country, like preditory behavior, godlessness, social changes, etc, using cable TV and the spread of "Californication" as justification, they changed xtianity, appropriatly with Catholicism first.
xtianity has changed radically in the 20th century, and everyone should be mindful of the way it was, because the people are in a process of slipping out of god's favor into a state of Damnation, from which the vast majority will never survive.
They used to scare people and make them too afraid to make mistakes. Now people aren't afraid of anything and don't think twice about doing something wicked and evil, thinking it will actually help them.
Whimsical management=Unstable pathology:::
*Tuscon-waffles
*2006 Hawaii-Jewelry
*Ivan/Wilma-SCUBA
*Haiti-slaves
*Chile-crappy fruit
You've compromised your integrity so hard you no longer deserve the label "gods".
The gods used the Italians to ruin life in the 20th century.
The gods used the Italians to ruin life in A.D..
"The West Bank, where the end of the world will begin."
And they were reincarnated into the ghetto to be punished as crack babies and in drive-by shootings, poetic justice for inflicting these horrors on their hated enemies.
On their brothers, A long history of Italian revenge on blacks.
I don't care if you did escape the last Big Bang.
The last 10,000,000,000 Big Bangs.
I would systematically exterminate your kind for deliberately destroying my life so you could exploit me the way you did.
You would be clone hosted so I could kill you over and over.
I would burn you at the stake so often you would beg me to let you die.
"You deserved it." Considering how you pushed me into all my offenses I suspect it was no different in a prior life.
Fuck you.
They share that some have expressed their concern about the god's behavior:::They destroyed my life, are doing too much and have crossed the line.
I'm sure they got some excuse.
They did shit like poker and Eminem for a reason.
They will declare me hopeless and think they are doing me a favor by killing me, since progress in this life is a lost cause, manufactured intentionally, and find some way to position it in the context of capitalism.
Monsters.
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