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I'm going to ignore the Calvinism/Election debate for now, and focus on the OP. First, it's necessary to understand that there are two different types of fear. One type of fear is terror. It's never from God. God's perfect love always casts it out. The second type of fear is a deep, holy...

What about the hipsters who have church on Saturday night because they think that's a lot cooler than getting up early on Sunday morning? In their "relevant" laziness, are they accidentally getting it right, and thereby becoming redeemed? :D

Unless your heart was malicious, I'd lean toward it being more of a psychological hangup. If I understand you correctly, you didn't have issues with the anointing, itself, but with people's erroneous use of the term. The anointing is the effective power of God that emanates from the presence of...

Haha. I don't need to be validated by some random dude on the internet, named twinc. I know I'm a child of God. :)

When I was still dating my wife, when she would get really stressed about things, I used to tell her to go home, and when she goes to bed, just let the Lord wrap His arms around her and love on her. What you said reminded me of that.

I've never seen anything that comes close to resembling that in the Bible. If you can twist things to make it seem that way, I really feel sorry for you. You are a lot more significant to God than you believe you are.

So you don't believe you can be filled with and led by the Holy Spirit? The New Testament is full of it, and John 14:16-17 which you brought up, is one of the chief passages that describes that happening. If you read those verses and think it means you can't be filled with and led by the Holy...

All I know is that I believe in the importance of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and being led by Him, and in the importance of having the Word of God as our unshakable foundation. And I do not promote division or confusion. I'm all about unity and having a sound mind/the mind of Christ...

I completely agree. But how does that apply to what I said? I'm still trying to figure out where you're coming from here.

I just didn't completely understand what you were accusing me of, and why.

"Doctrine" has become man's interpretation of scripture. And we all know there are a thousand different interpretations of scripture. I hate it when people try to say their spin on things is the only sound doctrine, and if you don't agree with them, you don't agree with God.

His peace is always there, but sometimes we get our minds off of it and lose our awareness of His peace that is always there. Like when Peter was walking on water, and he got his eyes on the winds and the waves, and began to sink. One thing people don't think about, though, is after he cried out...

You're absolutely right. One thing, though, becoming weary or burnt out isn't necessarily a sign that it's time to leave a church or calling and move on. It's possible that's what it could mean, but it could also mean that it's time to set boundaries, get back into the flow of God, and regain...

See, you hit on something there. There are certain venues of ministry that the world will not allow a person into except for an ordination. I've been able to minister to people in jails one on one in situations where they wouldn't have allowed me in if I weren't ordained. We're not of the world...

Oh, I'm not talking about quitting or giving up. The discussion just came up because bbyrd was kind of ridiculing the need for ministers to have times of rest and recovery, and the need for there to be people called to serve in that way. I always hate to say it in venues like this, and I'll...

I know the conversation has kind of changed, but I want to address the OP. I think you have it backwards. In context, Jesus talked about the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit because people said He cast out demons by Beelzebub. So it's more likely that you blaspheme the Holy Spirit by attributing His...

You're not going to find a pastor in the world who doesn't go through times of being weary. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with them doing things wrong. It's just an exhausting and thankless calling. You do have to take times when you come to Him and allow Him to give you rest. But...

Haha. I'm sure you must live an interesting life if you refuse dollars. :D

No, you're completely judging these guys wrong. It's my sister and brother-in-law, so I know their hearts very well. It's all about humility with them. There is no power play with that at all. Their whole heart is using what God has given them to serve others. And they don't do it in such a way...