Making It Plain

  I recall being immature in Christ when I heard the phrase, carnal Christian. It was something that caused an expression of concern because it is everything as believer we weren't supposed to be but also everything that we are . It was a rudimentary crude way of defining an oxy-moron . This phrase I heard came from a well known tele-evangelist to this day still uses that term. In the context that the evangelist was using it, I wondered if anyone else was perplexed. You see unless it is saturated in the Word, it is undoubtedly drenched in error ( 1 John 4:1-6 AMP ). To explain this point clearly and what it has to do with Christian singles is recollecting an episode of a well known but since cancelled television show, NYPD Blue . The episode is found in season 5 (aired in 1997, entitled Lost Israel - part 2), where there was a homeless mute man being used as a witness to a scene that Lt. Sipowicz was investigating. The only way the man could communicate to tell the detective what ...

There has always been a social status and the class divide where boundaries are made crystal clear whether blatant or not. You see, dividing parties based on how much money one makes in a year, the car he/she drives, and/or where one resides were the basis of friendships, business partners, and including arranged marriages. The families would be pleased not based on cultural beliefs or spiritual commonalities but the outcome financially if anything happened to a family member, the surviving individual would be taken care of. It seems like good planning and very practical right until it spills over into one's personality and day to day living. To stir up the dust of a topic that rarely gets mentioned will also stir up emotions. Check yourself especially after reading  the Word in correlation with the assessment. There is this program entitled Love Is Blind (UK version). In it, there are couples who have exhausted all social possibilities of meeting lasting partners and they choose t...