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Stimulus for Service

So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.
(2 Corinthians 5:9 – ESV)

In 2 Corinthians 5:9-10, 14, and 17-20, 21, Paul gives us four motivations for service to God.

• The judgment seat of Christ

• The love of Christ (Christ’s love for us and our love for Christ, cyclical)

• The transformations in Christ

• The work of Christ (the Gospel itself, what He did for us, our calling)

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Here we go again…

Ken Silva reports about Katharine Jefferts Schori, head of the Episcopal Church, as she uses twisted scripture about promises made by God to Jews and those of Ishmael, and her feelings as justification for saying Jews and Muslims are saved even if they do not claim Jesus as Savior:

So clearly, the other Abrahamic faiths have access to God the Father, without (noticeably pauses) consciously going through Jesus. I also look around at people from other faith traditions; ah, and there’s some great examples out there like Mahatma Gandhi, or the Dalai Lama, ah, who – or Thich Nyat Hahn – who shows us what look like fruits of the Spirit. Who show us in their lives, what we see as godly behavior.

If I deny that person has some access to God – because of the evidence I see – I think I’m doing something pretty close to the sin against the Holy Spirit… I believe that the whole world has access to God. I just not too worried about the mechanism…because in some parts of Christianity, we have turned salvation into a work; that you have to say, “I claim Jesus as my Lord and Savior,” in order to be saved. That turns it into a work; it denies the possibility of grace.

Of course, the promises from God to Hagar about Ishmael became reality, but they did not include the Messianic line or salvation apart from Christ. They were about his descendants becoming a great people, which they have. Of course it is a small step from there to admitting all into the universalism tent with the usual suspects such as Gandhi leading the way. A few scriptures will suffice.

Galatians 1:6-9
1 Timothy 2:5
1 John 4:3

We have been covering the ECUSA and their descent into apostasy, and

here,
here,
here,
here,
and here

are some of our previous updates.

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