Comments on: The Church Is For Dead People http://pummkin.net/2005/01/the-church-is-for-dead-people/ I'm not here, I'm underwater...! Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:27:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 By: pummkin http://pummkin.net/2005/01/the-church-is-for-dead-people/#comment-33 Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:03:00 +0000 http://www.pummkin.net/pitch/?p=13#comment-33 Oh, pleasure be it if that’s what is going to keep me going when the going gets tough! Call that sin if it turns you on but I’m calling on my emotional crutch, my hope & my destiny in Christ to propel me to the new heaven & new earth! While I’m here, I’ll just have to live by faith & by God’s rules & die to the flesh (includes not having my favourite Baskin Robbins everyday…maybe once a week…) & hope that I’ll lose the happy weight I’d gain since my encounter with Him!

]]> By: MephisLee http://pummkin.net/2005/01/the-church-is-for-dead-people/#comment-32 Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:58:00 +0000 http://www.pummkin.net/pitch/?p=13#comment-32 You story on “meeting you Maker” is three sentences long. Piousness in others always had a special place in my heart.
One can still be a good Christian and ostentatious.One can still give their life to Jesus and be a “multiple dater”( those evil,evil daters). Anything that makes me so self concious as to ignore normal human instincts and behaviour,or as you might put it “pleasures of the flesh” mmmh… is suspect.
Who defines or unrighteousness,or perverse thoughts,our evil desires? We are all “sinners” and will always be.The church is a crack house peddaling some high quality rocks. Oblivion through blind faith.Feeling good about how much better your life is after you were “saved”,”redemmed”, or saw God in the eye of a dying fish,is a sin as well.Not a pleasure of the flesh persay,but more of a pleasure of the spirit.
Whatever makes someones life, richer I suppose.Keep sniffing your crack,-your luck to have a dealer that never runs out.

]]> By: james http://pummkin.net/2005/01/the-church-is-for-dead-people/#comment-31 Mon, 31 Jan 2005 02:23:00 +0000 http://www.pummkin.net/pitch/?p=13#comment-31 Whoa! I see dead people. 🙂

]]> By: 5xmom ~chanlilian.net~ http://pummkin.net/2005/01/the-church-is-for-dead-people/#comment-30 Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:53:00 +0000 http://www.pummkin.net/pitch/?p=13#comment-30 Hi Pummkin
I usually stay away from blogs declaring their faith. Scary sometimes. But I like yours. Have a good weekend. P/S – great photos too.

]]> By: kItttttt http://pummkin.net/2005/01/the-church-is-for-dead-people/#comment-29 Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:14:00 +0000 http://www.pummkin.net/pitch/?p=13#comment-29 Church nowadays feels like a club. It’s a social activity, a sunday morning party, self gratification place to be in. The place Sunday Christians meet. Too many phony Christians out there. It’s really depressing to see the state of the current churches sometimes. And some with godly stickers on their cars drive like they’re nuts. Bibles are left to withstand the heat of the day and cold of the night in solitude in the car. I guess there’s just so much in this world for those who are worldly. And common confusion about the significance of Jesus’ sacrifice seem to be an underrated contemporary issue. What do we do? Is this an inevitable conclusion while missionaries save souls the saved souls in church decay?

]]> By: pummkin http://pummkin.net/2005/01/the-church-is-for-dead-people/#comment-28 Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:56:00 +0000 http://www.pummkin.net/pitch/?p=13#comment-28 I’m no greater than He who is. A servant cannot be greater than the master. Repentance is necessary, for pride will only lead to one’s fall. Resolving not to continue in wrongdoing is crucial to bridge the divide between God & man. Greater love hath no man than a man who would lay down his life for his friend. Jesus died for us while we were still sinners, He was tortured & tormented on the cross. Nails did not keep Jesus on the cross, His love did. So to say that I should continue in sin is like saying I should crucify Jesus over & over again. Whatever you & I would do, would not change the truth. And the truth shall set you free.

]]> By: mwt http://pummkin.net/2005/01/the-church-is-for-dead-people/#comment-27 Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:12:00 +0000 http://www.pummkin.net/pitch/?p=13#comment-27 State of grace, blessings and repentance

Whether you attend church or not you were born into a state of grace. It is impossible for you to leave it. You will die in a state of grace whether or not special words are spoken for you, or water or oil is poured upon your head.

You share this blessing with the animals and all other living things. You cannot fall out of grace, nor can it be taken from you.

You can ignore it. You can hold beliefs that blind you to its existence. You will still be graced but unable to perceive your own short if you believe that you are only a physical organism living within the boundaries cast upon you by time and space. You are a unique individual. You form your uniqueness and integrity, and blind also to other attributes with which you are automatically gifted.

You sell yourself short if you believe that you are only a physical organism living within the boundaries cast upon you by time and space….You are a unique individual. You form your physical environment. You are part of all that is. There is no place within you that creativity does not exist

You are greater than you realized.

A state of grace exists for everyone when you are fairly happy and content in your daily joyful life. You only need repentance when you do not know joy. For within joy and within all that is there is only glory, consciousness and song. There is only blessedness.
When you berate yourself for your sins, then you do not realize what joy is. Do you berate a flower that has one crooked stem?

So in yourselves, know spontaneity and in spontaneity you will find joy. Spontaneity has its own discipline. You do not need to enforce discipline upon it.
Enjoy yourself in this life. Say to yourself often:

“My life is MINE and I FORM it”

The moment of power is in the present. Your life is yours and don’t let others influence you. MANY spiritual church people are filled with FALSE humility.

We can find them saying:
“I am nothing, but the spirit of God moves through me, and if I do any good it is because of God’s spirit and not my own” or

“I have no ability of my own. Only the power of God has any ability”

Now, in those terms you ARE the power of God manifested. You are not POWERLESS. To the contrary, through your being the power of God is strengthened, for YOU ARE a portion of what He is.

There should never be a word in any language that means repentance. There should only be a word that means, I bless; for when you bless, you do not need to repent.
Or when you accept a blessing, there is nothing to repent. Love of All That Is requires simply that you become open as air, for when you are open as air then joy of all that is flows through you indiscriminately, and there is nothing to repent. You only need repentance when you do not know joy. For within joy and within all that is there is only glory, consciousness and song. There is only blessedness.

When you berate yourself for your sins, then you do not realize what joy is. Do you berate a flower that has one crooked stem? So in yourselves, know spontaneity and in spontaneity you will find joy. Spontaneity has its own discipline. You do not need to enforce discipline upon it.

The integrity of the self and the soul exists beyond the possibility of annihilation, as you yourself will continue to exist regardless of which path you choose to take – dying after 30 years, or living physically on for many more.

In other words, you will continue to exist and to be fulfilled within that love you sensed.

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