This is a comment by me on me. Ah, glorious recursion. Anyway, I’ve been telling people for some time now that my religious affiliation/conviction is Fundagelical Bapticostal catholic Christian. Hopefully that covers the field. Alternatively, I’m a White Label, Generic-brand Christian. In other words, your basic blood-bought, born-again, bible-believing, heaven-bound, eternally secure saved-to-the-uttermost, citizenship-in-the-commonwealth-of-the-heavenlies sort of Christian.
I’m also (yes, I realize these ramblings shouldn’t be comments, I’m just experimenting) self-described as a Kind, Loving, Gentle, Forgiving, Compassionate Ultra-Right Wing Hard-Liner. Hopefully that’s not too self-serving. Or cognitively dissonant.
Hi Mike! How are you” I just stumbled into your website by divine providence. I’m glad not only that you remembered me, that I was one of the 10 that went to study Chinese in Shanghai with you (and we even shared a room for a few months), but that you spelled my last name correctly, which allowed me to be led to you. I know that You’re not with GGWO anymore, but that doesn’t matter. I’m wondering if I could ask you a few questions about theology, since I still live in a kind of “ethos of fear” of asking any pastors in GGWO, where I still belong and am serving under here in Klaipeda, Lithuania. I’ll just ask you one for now, maybe two: 1) Why do we speak of meeting Jesus face to face after we die, when the Bible says nothing about it, except in ICorinthians 13:12, which refers to the time of the Resurrection when “that which is perfect is come”… It seems that Paul, himself, proves in IThess4:18 that there will be no meeting of Jesus until the rapture, which, of course, he believed was going to happen very soon, even in his lifetime! If he writes to comfort one another with these words, but doesn’t include meeting Jesus face to face at death, then he must not have known about it, or, having been once caught up in the third heaven, knew it, but was forbidden to mention it. 2) I tend to be a bit softer than you on the gay issue. I believe that indeed our osn is inherited and to assume that homosexual orientation can’t be a result of sin that has devolved in our nature, seems to be a bit naive. Matthew 19:12 clearly states what what I beleive is very possible, though I may be wrong. It refers to the three cases of being a eunach- most interestingly that some are born eunachs (castrated). Ok, it’s not gay orientation, but it is abnormal sexual mutation. Oh well, that’s all for now. Hope to hear from you soon.
i bookmarked your blaagh, which means a couple of years from now i’ll scroll through the endless list of bookmarks and think “hey, that’s mike’s blog,” at which point i’ll either delete it because i’m annoyed how cluttered computers get in no time, or i’ll hop over & read some more posts.
#1 by mikeandpaula on November 11, 2010 - 1:00 pm
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This is a comment by me on me. Ah, glorious recursion. Anyway, I’ve been telling people for some time now that my religious affiliation/conviction is Fundagelical Bapticostal catholic Christian. Hopefully that covers the field. Alternatively, I’m a White Label, Generic-brand Christian. In other words, your basic blood-bought, born-again, bible-believing, heaven-bound, eternally secure saved-to-the-uttermost, citizenship-in-the-commonwealth-of-the-heavenlies sort of Christian.
#2 by mikeandpaula on November 11, 2010 - 1:03 pm
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I’m also (yes, I realize these ramblings shouldn’t be comments, I’m just experimenting) self-described as a Kind, Loving, Gentle, Forgiving, Compassionate Ultra-Right Wing Hard-Liner. Hopefully that’s not too self-serving. Or cognitively dissonant.
#3 by Andy Valaitis on August 4, 2011 - 4:27 am
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Hi Mike! How are you” I just stumbled into your website by divine providence. I’m glad not only that you remembered me, that I was one of the 10 that went to study Chinese in Shanghai with you (and we even shared a room for a few months), but that you spelled my last name correctly, which allowed me to be led to you. I know that You’re not with GGWO anymore, but that doesn’t matter. I’m wondering if I could ask you a few questions about theology, since I still live in a kind of “ethos of fear” of asking any pastors in GGWO, where I still belong and am serving under here in Klaipeda, Lithuania. I’ll just ask you one for now, maybe two: 1) Why do we speak of meeting Jesus face to face after we die, when the Bible says nothing about it, except in ICorinthians 13:12, which refers to the time of the Resurrection when “that which is perfect is come”… It seems that Paul, himself, proves in IThess4:18 that there will be no meeting of Jesus until the rapture, which, of course, he believed was going to happen very soon, even in his lifetime! If he writes to comfort one another with these words, but doesn’t include meeting Jesus face to face at death, then he must not have known about it, or, having been once caught up in the third heaven, knew it, but was forbidden to mention it. 2) I tend to be a bit softer than you on the gay issue. I believe that indeed our osn is inherited and to assume that homosexual orientation can’t be a result of sin that has devolved in our nature, seems to be a bit naive. Matthew 19:12 clearly states what what I beleive is very possible, though I may be wrong. It refers to the three cases of being a eunach- most interestingly that some are born eunachs (castrated). Ok, it’s not gay orientation, but it is abnormal sexual mutation. Oh well, that’s all for now. Hope to hear from you soon.
#4 by rob on August 6, 2011 - 5:40 pm
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i bookmarked your blaagh, which means a couple of years from now i’ll scroll through the endless list of bookmarks and think “hey, that’s mike’s blog,” at which point i’ll either delete it because i’m annoyed how cluttered computers get in no time, or i’ll hop over & read some more posts.