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Immersion Therapy - To Be or Not to Be
star it|1 comments|March 30, 2008|598 reads
 
2B or 2B

My Son, Xander

Have you ever tried to get a straight answer out of some people?  Some people are "vacillators."  I know it sounds like some kind of cool futuristic, robotic hunters, but, sadly, it's not.  Wiktionary says that vacillate mean to be indecisive, changeable or inconsistent in speech or action.

Although that can drive you nuts, here is what really does it for me, spiritual vacillators.  People who are Christians on Sunday, and heathens on Monday.  People who are holy one day, and "unholy" every other day.

Revelations 3:15 says this
3:15 "'I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot!


In Revelations, the Church of Laodicea was criticized for being lukewarm.  Often, this passage is misquoted as saying that hot is better than cold.  Hot being passionate and zealous for God.  And, cold is not.  What is really going on here is that the water in this city, by the time it reached the people, was lukewarm.  Lukewarm means it could have easily carried diseases and not been healthy to drink.

As true Christians, we cannot live our life that way.  If we say that that we want TO BE a Christian, then we should all the time.  It is not a true Christian lifestyle NOT TO BE living for God in every opportunity in our lives.

2B or 2B.  I guess that really is the question!

--the onathologist

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Immersion Therapy is a devotional series written by Captain Douglas McClure.  The views and opinions in this devotional do not reflect or should be said to reflect the opinions of The Salvation Army.

 
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A C Keith Hood
 A C Keith Hood
March 31, 2008
Good work.  Could it be that many of us are second generation or later and have lost our first love?  That happened to the church at Ephesus.  In the letter to the Ephesian by Paul it was all about spiritual warfare.  In Rev. from John (2nd generation) they were keeping all the rules but were missing on the relationship part of it.  Could the question that we are considering as a church be "to do or not to do" when it should be as you ask, "to be or not to be"?

Whitener said you were very good on Sunday.  I think it was exceptional.  I think you are a good leader and you handled little Jon's comment with professionalism.

Keith