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EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation, and the damnation of our neighbors.
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Walther Henry Medhurst, Congregational missionary to China, talks of getting around China. He says it would “contaminate” “the cause of God” to use friendly smugglers from the opium cartel to do so.
Do we operate from an opposite perspective, that the cause of God sanctifies any unethical or illegal thing? And posit those who complain as opposing the cause of God?
What social media platforms are your favorite Christian authors using?
Messianic Jews and Christians who understand the Hebrew roots of our faith do not see the NT as the book of another religion but the necessary fulfilment of the OT with the revelation of the promised Messiah fulfilled in Jesus, rooted in the Hebrew scriptures.
The New is in the Old concealed, the Old is in the New revealed.
For Star Trek, my absolute favorite is Voyager, I've seen it don't know how many times, grown up with Janeway, a great inspiration, as well as 7 of 9 and all the crew!
Know any of them? Are we sharing any favorite? :ablobcatnomcookie:
Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, ‘Get justice for me from my adversary.’ And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’” Luke 18.3-5
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