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Questions that LEAD to the pursuit of truth are true questions. Questions that deconstruct truth are a repetition of those of the serpent “Is that what God reeeally said?” I have been guilty of this. It feels ‘deep’ to think something ‘new’ yet truth is truth and the serpent is cunning and if he can, he will blind us with his own form of ‘light’.
(This was a VSP – very short post 🙂 )
It’s not such a simple question!
A number of years ago I did a book display at a super ‘conservative’ Christian rally. I’d recently spent a number of years prior to that in a Pentecostal church but I’d attended the same rallies by the same conservative group as a small child with my parents. I stood there awash in The Fathers love and a sense of His presence and joy with the memory of being a toddler in that very auditorium and I knew the same joy I felt in the Pentecostal style worship was because it was the same Holy Spirit who was in each place. Neither set of beliefs governing style had everything right, but the Holy Spirit, by God’s grace, was present in both. He was there when I was a toddler in that auditorium, He was there in the Pentecostal church and He was there again that night.
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