Being All Things
Posted April 2, 2009
Hi Mike,Thank you N____,
It is interesting how your reply has spoken to other areas of Christ I have been grappling with lately. The way you live your life has no discrepancies between what you teach and the manner in which you edify. I am an immature babe, and I see now that you speak to me and others AS one. Had never seen before the true meaning of those verses:
1Co 9:20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
1Co 9:21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
1Co 9:22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all [men], that I might by all means save some.
1Co 9:23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with [you].....and that this is not "backstepping" nor is it putting on something that you are excluded from or have never experienced.
Thanks!
It is easy to discourse on all manner of spiritual subjects, just this time was trying to understand more about the spiritual meaning/place/order/intent of IWWB and yourself.
Your brother in the Christ of Christ,
N____
Your humility will serve to mature you in a realistic way that should help you to deal with the "falling seven times" which we all must live.
All IWWB or any other web site that is being used of Christ does, is to simply share the gospel with those who are sent, by the holy spirit, to the web pages.
All we do is to confirm by the scriptures, what the holy spirit is already telling those with whom He is doing His work:
1Co 3:5 Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
I hope this helps you to see that we see ourselves as only one of many instruments in the hand of the Master Potter.
Your brother in Christ.Mike