Well, Dan, what's in a name? You know, this week, a little bit in, maybe Tuesday, (yeah lots of commas.....sidetracked :P) , you saw what happens when we don't think through something. Tell the story:
Ok, so guy comes into work, he's new. One of the older higher up guys sees a sticker on the back of new guy's vehicle. It says "Combat Medic" . (He got it to help get out of tickets) Well, all this week, new guy has been getting joked at and so forth about being a "Combat Medic" . Well it goes without saying most of the guys are not hm, well, most of the guys think "You are a retard new guy for doing that. You just got out of training and you have no idea what that sticker means" (um, I had to clean up the language cause it was um, not clean).
So, what's in a name? Ok, well from passing training, I remember "yay i'm a medic now! cool, I'll get callled"Doc" and it will be so cool". .....shortly after a few months later, I went overseas. Now, I neither care to be called a "combat medic". Hm, any of the guys I have talked to don't care to be called a "combat medic" . Why?
This is what it means: someone got hurt fighting in a war and I had to see it and treat it. That is not something to be proud of and get all "hey look at me, I did this" .
No there is more to that name than just some title. The thoughts of rockets and things being shot at the men, a guy getting a dangerous femoral bleed, another internally bleeding, another shot, the other injuries. No, it is a not something light. that is just on the medic side.
why the story? Cause Dan, you talked to a few people and they said the same thing, they don't wear their badges cause of that. "Someone got hurt, why am I parading that around?" they say. But why the story?
BECAUSE!!!!! Because, a title or name can do so much damage and have so much behind it.
Christian.....
John 6:
66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
2 Corinthians 4:
8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
This is why it is so hard. Many will leave. I fear mine own life and others I have seen. We destroy ourselves and in doing so others. Oh God, help !
Ok, so guy comes into work, he's new. One of the older higher up guys sees a sticker on the back of new guy's vehicle. It says "Combat Medic" . (He got it to help get out of tickets) Well, all this week, new guy has been getting joked at and so forth about being a "Combat Medic" . Well it goes without saying most of the guys are not hm, well, most of the guys think "You are a retard new guy for doing that. You just got out of training and you have no idea what that sticker means" (um, I had to clean up the language cause it was um, not clean).
So, what's in a name? Ok, well from passing training, I remember "yay i'm a medic now! cool, I'll get callled"Doc" and it will be so cool". .....shortly after a few months later, I went overseas. Now, I neither care to be called a "combat medic". Hm, any of the guys I have talked to don't care to be called a "combat medic" . Why?
This is what it means: someone got hurt fighting in a war and I had to see it and treat it. That is not something to be proud of and get all "hey look at me, I did this" .
No there is more to that name than just some title. The thoughts of rockets and things being shot at the men, a guy getting a dangerous femoral bleed, another internally bleeding, another shot, the other injuries. No, it is a not something light. that is just on the medic side.
why the story? Cause Dan, you talked to a few people and they said the same thing, they don't wear their badges cause of that. "Someone got hurt, why am I parading that around?" they say. But why the story?
BECAUSE!!!!! Because, a title or name can do so much damage and have so much behind it.
Christian.....
–adjective
-of, pertaining to, or derived from Jesus Christ or Histeachings: a Christian faith.
-of, pertaining to, believing in, or belonging to the religionbased on the teachings of Jesus -Christ: Spain is a Christiancountry.
-of or pertaining to Christians:
-exhibiting a spirit proper to a follower of Jesus Christ; Christlike: She displayed true Christian charity.
–noun
-a person who believes in Jesus Christ; adherent ofChristianity.
-a person who exemplifies in his or her life the teachings ofChrist: He died like a true Christian.
-a member of any of certain Protestant churches, as theDisciples of Christ and the Plymouth Brethren.
I've been made fun of alot the past few weeks cause I say that is what I am. Not only that, but it has caused people to openly jut disregard and try to make me mess up and just really, frustrate me.
Feels like at every turn inside me and out, I'm being attacked. Both by my own self and others. What is a Christian?
Simply, I don't know fully. But what others have said a "Christian" is, is nothing I have ever seen or read or anything.
Here's an example of some things-
-fanatical wackos
-those who preach "fire and brimstone"
-a cult
- false people
- always want something but never there when you need them
- money grubbing
- just a big group of people who can' even agree within themselves (all the religious "Christian" groups are put together....catholic,, lutheran, baptist, etc)
- Holy Rollers
-Bible thumpers.....haha, I heard that this week, haven't heard that term in a long time.
- Nice People
-Moral people
So, what is in a name? Dan, what is a Christian? Is it something to be proud of? Is it something I can just mold how I want? Hm, many days now I have seen it. Later I will actually put out a triumph of one discussion/ argument on such.
But that definition is just not doing this justice.
What is a Christian?
Hm, Well, follower of Christ. That is, both in His life and His words. Jesus said to follow what He said, to follow God. So, we follow God through His Word. The Bible.
Wow, that seems so simple, just so simple.
It isn't. Nope, it isn't. Just how unsimple is being shown everyday. EVERYDAY !
You know what, Dan? You got in over your head. Listen to this.....
Matthew 7:21
[ True and False Disciples ] “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Fatherwho is in heaven.
John 15:
18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’[b] If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’[c
1 John 3:
13 Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.
-of, pertaining to, or derived from Jesus Christ or Histeachings: a Christian faith.
-of, pertaining to, believing in, or belonging to the religionbased on the teachings of Jesus -Christ: Spain is a Christiancountry.
-of or pertaining to Christians:
-exhibiting a spirit proper to a follower of Jesus Christ; Christlike: She displayed true Christian charity.
–noun
-a person who believes in Jesus Christ; adherent ofChristianity.
-a person who exemplifies in his or her life the teachings ofChrist: He died like a true Christian.
-a member of any of certain Protestant churches, as theDisciples of Christ and the Plymouth Brethren.
I've been made fun of alot the past few weeks cause I say that is what I am. Not only that, but it has caused people to openly jut disregard and try to make me mess up and just really, frustrate me.
Feels like at every turn inside me and out, I'm being attacked. Both by my own self and others. What is a Christian?
Simply, I don't know fully. But what others have said a "Christian" is, is nothing I have ever seen or read or anything.
Here's an example of some things-
-fanatical wackos
-those who preach "fire and brimstone"
-a cult
- false people
- always want something but never there when you need them
- money grubbing
- just a big group of people who can' even agree within themselves (all the religious "Christian" groups are put together....catholic,, lutheran, baptist, etc)
- Holy Rollers
-Bible thumpers.....haha, I heard that this week, haven't heard that term in a long time.
- Nice People
-Moral people
So, what is in a name? Dan, what is a Christian? Is it something to be proud of? Is it something I can just mold how I want? Hm, many days now I have seen it. Later I will actually put out a triumph of one discussion/ argument on such.
But that definition is just not doing this justice.
What is a Christian?
Hm, Well, follower of Christ. That is, both in His life and His words. Jesus said to follow what He said, to follow God. So, we follow God through His Word. The Bible.
Wow, that seems so simple, just so simple.
It isn't. Nope, it isn't. Just how unsimple is being shown everyday. EVERYDAY !
You know what, Dan? You got in over your head. Listen to this.....
Matthew 7:21
[ True and False Disciples ] “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Fatherwho is in heaven.
John 15:
18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’[b] If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’[c
1 John 3:
13 Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.
2 Corinthians 5:
13 If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
John 6:
66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
2 Corinthians 4:
8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
Romans 7:22-24
22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?
Philippians 3:18-20
18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things.
2 Peter 2: (whole chapter also)
1 But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2 Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
2 Peter 2: (whole chapter also)
1 But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2 Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
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