{"id":6333,"date":"2014-02-02T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=6333"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:40","slug":"conviction-courtesy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/conviction-courtesy\/","title":{"rendered":"CONVICTION WITH COURTESY"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Calvin<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Why is it that some folk in their attempt to defend what they consider to be a Godly view of something, act so ungodly in their support of it?\u00a0 Why do they choose to be discourteous and crude in the affirmation of their convictions?\u00a0 To hear some church folk talk it sounds like they would half kill anyone who disagreed with their views.\u00a0 What has happened to the spirit of Jesus who taught us to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves and would not permit Simon to fight for Him?\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Personal views are weak, no matter how correct they are, when they have to be defended by ugliness and a spirit of contention.\u00a0 Such harsh argumentation reveals not so much an interest in God’s view but in promoting the pride of one’s own thought.\u00a0 A sinful ego cannot face another point of view without a fight.\u00a0 Insecurity of thought will always create an argumentative attitude.\u00a0 Someone who is comfortable in his or her own theological skin will be courteous in the presentation of his or her\u00a0convictions.\u00a0 There will be kindness in disagreement.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The truth of the matter is when one has a Godly viewpoint he or she will also have a Godly attitude.\u00a0 When one is thoroughly immersed in the truth of God he or she has nothing to prove only something to share.\u00a0 A Christian witness is one whose disposition verifies the accuracy of stated convictions.\u00a0 It will always be open, however,\u00a0to other revelations as the Holy Spirit leads.\u00a0 Our earnest prayer, therefore, is for meekness even as He gives us courage.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

     Why is it that some folk in their attempt to defend what they consider to be a Godly view of something, act so ungodly in their support of it?  Why do they choose to be discourteous and crude in the affirmation of their convictions?  To hear some church folk talk it sounds like they … Continue reading “CONVICTION WITH COURTESY”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-6333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matters-of-faith","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19146,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions\/19146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}