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|  One Love Registered Member

Date Joined Jan 2003 Total Posts : 13888 | Posted 6/10/2007 8:13 AM (GMT -6) |   | This is REAL.
This is the some of the FUTURE and PRESENT of American civilization...in the face of all of the genuine world issues that we have.
Watch and pray.
www.ifilm.com/video/2860052
PLEASE share your comments on this. "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be One, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be One as we are One— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete UNIty. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to SONship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. | | Back to Top | | |
 |  Similitude Registered Member
 Date Joined Apr 2004 Total Posts : 4968 | Posted 6/10/2007 9:48 AM (GMT -6) |   | |
Unbelievable!! I think of one who has the perspective that says "be not anxious" about tomorrow because "sufficient to the day is the evil thereof." Then I think of the perspective of the mother on that video. Then I think how much wisdom it would take for one with the former perspective to communicate that perspective to that mother. They live in such differently perceived realities that only a wise person would know where to begin that communication profitably.
It makes me see why Paul and Peter talk about having wisdom to "answer" people. Sometimes, questions from others can help you see how they are are trying to understand the difference in perspectives. Thankfully, we have reason to believe that a life well-lived (according to that first perspective) will provoke those questions.
So even though I think loving our neighbor is ultimately defined in terms of its meaningfulness per this-worldly sentient effects, God most certainly does use those effects to provoke questions in others about the "hope that is in us," as Peter says. We have several verses to this effect like "that the teaching be not blasphemed," "that they may glorify your Father in heaven," etc. | | Back to Top | | |
 |  One Love Registered Member

Date Joined Jan 2003 Total Posts : 13888 | Posted 6/10/2007 9:54 PM (GMT -6) |   | Thanks, Jeff. Who's next? I think there's plenty in there to talk about... "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be One, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be One as we are One— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete UNIty. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to SONship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. | | Back to Top | | |
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