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Again, "absolutely." The podcast I mentioned previously is but one of the very specific and explicitly open and readily available resources available to congregants. Probably not on the weekly bulletins, though, but usually in a rack in the lobbies. This is where the Vineyards live and...

If interested, "most of you" can ask for a link to the kind of podcast The Vineyard openly espouses, and I will PM it to you.

At many Vineyards, questions are sometimes asked right out loud in the service. The Vineyard is about the only truly open and honest church I have ever been to. Most people there are refugees from just about every other denomination there is..... some, still bleeding from the wounds they...

I'll actually take that as a reasonable and serious answer. Did you mean it to be? Were you actually trying to understand something?

Most churches already use Facebook. The ones I know that used to have forums or blogs have let them die for FB instead.

Well, sadly I have come to realize that *Stranger* probably, and possibly quite honestly, would not understand listening to and hearing, what a person doesn't say.... as opposed to only hearing the words they use to hide their true emotions.

Yes, it is so elementary, that it probably does sound deep to you.

Wow! You just grew a foot taller.

Not surprisingly, you probably have no idea what I was talking about. It isn't what she said, it's what she didn't say.

Absolutely not.

Her position is not "nonsensical". It is protective, and makes all the sense in the world if we try to look through Jesus' eyes.

I don't mind if I "waste my time" with all sorts of people. Sometimes I don't understand it, but it seems God feels we are all worth a little extra effort.

Just a little something for anyone here who might need to hear this: Guilt is what an individual feels when she has violated her own moral code. For the woman who has come to believe, at some point either before or after the abortion, that she consented to the killing of her unborn child, the...

We all here know what I am talking about. And Jesus is the path for you to be able to rise above the loathing you feel you deserve. I never said it was OK for us to kill anyone. Not your abortion, or the many kids I ended the lives of from 200' away when they didn't even suspect I was there...

It is kind of sad that your feel you need a beating (punishment for your abortion), but I hope you find whatever it is you are looking for, and it eases your hurt.

It is true that most of the public ministry of Jesus was conducted in Jewish territory. Under the circumstances, the number of personal contacts with Gentiles recorded in the Gospels is surprising. He healed a Gadarene demoniac (Matt 8:28-34). Among ten lepers healed, one was a Samaritan, and...

What I meant was that the slap on the cheek was not intended as a physical attack. As I understand it, it was really just a light backhanded slap with the fingers that was intended as an insult. (They did a lot of "touching" in those days.... like when men would reach between the legs of the...

Well, you DID say Christ is the one doing the work of building the church today, didn't you? That seems to mean that we should let Him do it.

That "go the extra mile" is a fascinating study, since it was couched in a, then, cultural Roman Law enabling soldiers to impress servitude upon Jewish citizens. (Much the same thing with the cheek slapping.)

How do you interpret "as numerous as the grains of sand on the beach" or "as numerous as the stars in the skies" as being just a few?