Comments on: The God Who Really Loves

By: richard hood

richard hood — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:14:40 +0000

Jesus loves you.
You belong to him.
He loves me.
I belong to him.
I love you. You are my sister.
It’s that simple-too bad not everybody gets it.

By: Eklunds

Eklunds — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 04:36:36 +0000

Thank you,

I’ve lived with so much shame, not put on me by Jesus, but put on me by Christians. They did not walk in my shoes, but I know that Jesus knows me, he knows where I’ve been and where I’m going. I’m just starting to know that He does love me. It’s a slow start….but, I’m getting there to the realization that no matter what my past, HE HAS FOREVER wiped out my debt. Thank you for putting it into print that my children are not bastards….I’m forever done with that. Thank you for putting into print that Jesus would not shun me. For so long, I thought he would.

By: shepherd

shepherd — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 04:24:19 +0000

Jesus would not see your children as bastards. Jesus would not shun you.

He loves you.

I think that is why He went to the cross.

By: Eklunds

Eklunds — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:43:55 +0000

I think sometimes Christians think that the rebirth somehow makes you or “should” make you immune to the real biggies….you know, you should never desire another cigarette, never want another beer, never lust and never want to listen to rock n’ roll. It becomes a list of OK sins; gossip, gluttony, little white lies. And, those are OK.
There was a time, it was during the pre-Gideon years when I still didn’t know what a tragedy was, that one of our friends’ daughter became pregnant. I remember so foolishly telling Mike, “I’d just be so upset if one of the girls became pregnant.” He looked at me and said, “There are things way worse than that, Babe.” How very true. And, while I hope my kids won’t do many of the things I did, they may. If they do, I hope the church will still love and support them in whatever way they need. I know I will.
Most of my friends do not know that I was married briefly as a teenager. I would be shunned and they would consider all my children to be bastards because Mike is my 2nd husband. I’m looking into a new set of friends.

By: vernon

vernon — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:34:54 +0000

I would bet that kids were sleeping together or not sleeping as the case may be before the kids got pregnant. I think that teaching obedience out of love and respect would make more sense than coming down on them after the fact. I think teen pregnancy has lot more to do with hormones than sin. I know premarital sex is a sin but so is swearing, drunkeness, gluttony and many more, it just does not produce a baby ok drunkeness mught have some to do with it sometimes but still Jesus used grace and love much more often than the whip.