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[split] Critical Thinking Skills
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God called me to be an evangelist, when I first became a Christian I looked down on evangelism, I was more interested in academic philosophy. God called me to do evangelism through signs and wonders and showed me how, despite the degree to which evangelists are ridiculed and disrespected (or perhaps because of that), evangelism is something that God values highly because it deals with people being reunited to God and pursuing holiness.

So it is a sacrifice for me to be posting here. I would rather be upstairs coding and writing systematic theology. What is prideful about that?

If you want to follow Jesus, you have to follow Him completely, then you will experience the Holy Ghost. Otherwise you will experience nothing. You don't have to start off expecting to receive everything though, but that is the way to receive everything.
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(March 30, 2013 at 11:37 pm)jstrodel Wrote: evangelism is something that God values highly

Do you mean that god stated this in the bible or that he personally informed you of this? Last time I checked, there was no biblical law to evangelize.
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God personally informed me of this. I received the word "evangelist" by the Holy Spirit. I also have received many prophetic words telling me I am going to be a writer, as well as personally receiving this testimony from the Holy Spirit.
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(March 30, 2013 at 11:42 pm)jstrodel Wrote: God personally informed me of this.

As I thought. You need to go on meds, and not the type you prescribe for yourself.
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That is the way you deal with things you don't understand, with superstition and ignorant claims. So be it, you will live in a small shallow world.
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(March 30, 2013 at 11:45 pm)jstrodel Wrote: That is the way you deal with things you don't understand, with superstition and ignorant claims. So be it, you will live in a small shallow world.

I am not the one closing my eyes to reality to only accept superstition as truth.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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(March 30, 2013 at 11:42 pm)jstrodel Wrote: God personally informed me of this. I received the word "evangelist" by the Holy Spirit. I also have received many prophetic words telling me I am going to be a writer, as well as personally receiving this testimony from the Holy Spirit.

LOL, no he didn't, no you didn't, and no...you haven't.
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Works for me.

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(March 30, 2013 at 10:54 pm)jstrodel Wrote: You would if you saw what I have seen. You would change everything in a moment.

Unlikely. Seen many things, will see many more... but tell us: what have you seen?

(March 30, 2013 at 11:34 pm)jstrodel Wrote: What is pride?

Spaghetti.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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(March 30, 2013 at 10:54 pm)jstrodel Wrote: You would if you saw what I have seen. You would change everything in a moment.

Yeah. I'd get in touch with a very good psychiatrist.
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