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False Christians Need Your Help -
03-05-2007, 01:51 AM
THIS congregation of Lootrens seem to have a quandry on their hands. Being salad-bar Christians, they only know the "Jesus loves everyone no matter what" version of false Christianity. Now that they have been confronted by a convicted pedophile, there is much whining and gnashing of the teeth over how to treat him. As a True Christian excercize, can anyone here offer them some Godly advice?
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Nevada Church Conflicted Over Pedophile's Devotion
RENO, Nev. — A Lutheran congregation is grappling with how to deal with a convicted sex offender who says his church attendance is an important step toward rehabilitation.
Clergy and members at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd say they're in a quandary over how to protect their children while following in Christ's footsteps and welcoming a stranger.
"Clearly, we are called to love," said the Rev. Rebecca Schlatter, associate pastor. "But is it safe to love this particular person up close?"
The church has offered a covenant of 17 conditions to Calvin Brugge, who says he will sign it. Among other restrictions, he can only attend the 7:30 a.m. Sunday service, and he's barred from using the restroom or attending church-sponsored functions that include children.
Plans call for a support team to meet with him regularly and an accountability team to observe him while he's on church property.
"I have enjoyed church community before, and I feel that it's been something that has been lacking in my life, something that I grieve that I don't have in my life," Brugge said. He began attending church services in December.
"My only saving grace is to be open, honest and ask for assistance," he added.
Brugge, 60, is on parole for five more months after serving eight months in a California prison for violating his parole in 2005.
He was convicted in California in 1989 and 1997 for sex offenses involving children, according to the state's sex offender registry. Brugge has been identified as a tier three sex offender who poses a high risk of recidivism and threat to public safety.
Mary Carlson, a single mother of an 8-year-old girl, has fears despite the covenant. "He is a pedophile, and this pedophile might be fantasizing about this little girl across the aisle," she said.
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Here is a partial list from just a few scripture verses:
Hypocrites (Matthew 24:51), The Unforgiving (Mark 11:26), Homosexuals (Romans 1:26, 27), Fornicators (Romans 1:29), The Wicked (Romans 1:29), The Covetous (Romans 1:29), The Malicious (Romans 1:29), The Envious (Romans 1:29), Murderers (Romans 1:29), The Deceitful (Romans 1:29), Backbiters (Romans 1:30), Haters of God (Romans 1:30), The Despiteful (Romans 1:30), The Proud (Romans 1:30), Boasters (Romans 1:30), Inventors of evil (Romans 1:30), Disobedient to parents (Romans 1:30), Covenant breakers (Romans 1:31), The Unmerciful (Romans 1:31), The Implacable (Romans 1:31), The Unrighteous (1Corinthians 6:9), Idolaters (1Corinthians 6:9), Adulterers (1Corinthians 6:9), The Effeminate (1Corinthians 6:9), Thieves (1Corinthians 6:10), Drunkards (1Corinthians 6:10), Reviler (1Corinthians 6:10), Extortioners (1Corinthians 6:10), The Fearful (Revelation 21:8), The Unbelieving (Revelation 21:8), The Abominable (Revelation 21:8), Whoremongers (Revelation 21:8), Sorcerers (Revelation 21:8), All Liars (Revelation 21:8)
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Re: False Christians Need Your Help -
03-05-2007, 02:26 AM
He should be banned from the church and arrested! A lowly pedophile is no representative of Christ!
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Re: False Christians Need Your Help -
03-05-2007, 02:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Batman
He should be banned from the church and arrested! A lowly pedophile is no representative of Christ!
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Excuse me, I meant to say arrested forever!
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Re: False Christians Need Your Help -
03-05-2007, 05:34 AM
If he's going to be a false Christian anyway, why not just become a catlick where they'll welcome him with open arms?
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Re: False Christians Need Your Help -
03-05-2007, 06:11 AM
Another bunch of hypocrites..
They say "Christ loves you no matter what, unless you're a.. (insert whatever here)"
The truth is however (as we all know) that Christ loves you if you are SAVED, and hates you if you are unsaved. (Psalm 5:5-7)
A pedophile is no worse than a homersexual, but I suppose they would welcome the homersexual with open arms.. wouldn't they?
If this vile sinner would truly have repented and accepted Jesus, then he should be accepted (in a TRUE Church) but he most surely hasn't..
And their Church is a false one anyway, so what does it matter who'm they choose to accept?
Their entire congregation is hellbound!
PRAISE GOD!
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: But if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
A foolish woman is clamorous: She is simple, and knoweth nothing.
Proverbs 9:12-13
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Re: False Christians Need Your Help -
03-05-2007, 05:53 PM
Brugge? Is that not a Belgian surname?
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it--for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
God being truth, justice, goodness, beauty, power, and life, man is falsehood, iniquity, evil, ugliness, impotence, and death. God being master, man is the slave. Incapable of finding justice, truth, and eternal life by his own effort, he can attain them only through a divine revelation... he who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter, but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
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Re: False Christians Need Your Help -
03-05-2007, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Brother Temperance
Brugge? Is that not a Belgian surname?
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Nope, it's a place.
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