HAVE I OFFENDED ANYONE WITH MY "LEGALISTIC ATTITUDE" RE : IS CHRISTIANITY BEING ATTACKED

HAVE I OFFENDED ANYONE WITH MY LEGALISTIC
ATTITUDE RE : IS CHRISTIANITY BEING ATTACKED?

I'm no spirituality expert in any way. My prayer life is vigorous but spotty. I sometimes get carried away and for days I can wallow in my own regrets and shame. I struggle against pretending to be a know-it-all, and against turning my works for the faith into an ego thing. I am just a simple child of God and a Christian, leaning mostly on the wisdom of others for what I write here. Please keep me in prayer and forgive me if I err... and truly get carried away!

I ask everyone or anyone whom I may have offended with my comments to forgive me and I ask them to please study this short comment on prayer ...


I ask you to regard this as a plea and this is something that I have actually applied to myself from the person or persons against whom I have offended or against whom I have transgressed:


"When you pray the prayer Jesus taught His disciples, you ask God to forgive you as you forgive those who wrong you. It says nothing about those who wrong you forgiving you, or changing their mind about you. It says nothing about those who wrong you asking you -- or even God -- for forgiveness. What 'they' do is not in the picture. It has no part in your being forgiven by God. It does not affect your need and your duty before God to forgive others. A 12-step observation can be made here : you can't change someone else, you can only change yourself. (Whether your changes change others is between them and God, and is not set by you.) Forgiveness does not cause reconciliation. If the other party has not forgiven, or if either party has not taken steps beyond forgiveness to cause change in the situation, there is no reconciliation. But forgiveness is the essential step. It is where you are being led as the Spirit likens you to Christ. Christ bids us to turn around our thinking toward others. The Lord's prayer isn't a call to pretend we are not being wronged, or to be silent or still as others are wronged. The wrong is still there, and the wrong is still every bit as wrong. But in forgiveness, we share the grace God gave to us for the wrongs we did. Jesus taught us to pray for God to give us what it takes to do so."

My usual attitude is JUDGE GENTLY... and this did not sound like me.

However, I do add a little something here that I think we should all find useful ... and I do this prayerfully and humbly...

I know that Christianity is being attacked but we should be wearing the armour... and my usual attitude is : "A gentle word turneth away wrath"

I WOULD RATHER SPEAK, AT A LATER STAGE OF THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT AS AN ALTERNATIVE... I THINK IN THIS MANNER I CAN DRAW PEOPLE TO CHRIST - THE MANNER IN WHICH I UNINTENTIONALLY EXPRESSED MYSELF WOULD DEFINITELY NOT ATTRACT "BABY CHRISTIANS"... AND I ADMIT IT WOULD OFFEND EVEN THOSE WHO LOVE ME...

AND IT IS NOT AT ALL IN MY NATURE TO BEHAVE IN SUCH AN UNKIND AND ‘ARROGANT' MANNER. (PLEASE FORGIVE ME)...




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Ramona P.