Especially when grappling

one must be gentle but firm.

In a comment to a post herehosted by Dr Rick Davis, on multicultural expression within the anecdote of the local church I commented the following in response to comments to my on leading comment:


I would only ask, if perhaps in our zealousness to be faithful in our understanding and use of the language, through Baptist anecdote, we might not be attributing to that faith(LDS), strictures, which are not there other than as some of their own members have misunderstood or mistated them, and herein is the point that makes that anecdote they use a false one in my understanding, because rather than further explanation I end up with further confused questions. As a good disciple of "What is free choice without free thinking?" I submit that Jesus in our own New Testament has suggested the need for labours and the reward for those labors,ayaaahh ooh nooo-
do not misquote me, I am not saying that salvation comes as a result of my accomplishing anything other than accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, and that as best I can glean from reading the entire Bible, Genesis to Revelation, without the apochrypha, God and Jesus and Spirit are One yet Each distinctive(perhaps perichoretic circumincession unveiling a panentheity), to say much more than this, as regards the Three in One, becomes my personal anecdote and susceptible to the limitations of my experience and intellect or else God's supersession. Does God speak to you? He seems to say that we are to reach out to even those we detest, re: the Samaritan woman.
After she leaves...read it in John 4:31-42, speaking to His desciples, He is not hungry-His meat is [for]doing the will of God.
The fields are ripe to harvest, the reapers should get busy and harvest so that fruit in life eternal may be enjoyed for both the sower and the reaper. see also 2Peter 1:1-11 and Galations 5:18-25. Not to forget James. All of this I bring not to further dischord but to hopefully find some way of reaching into a culture whose anecdote, as evidenced by its growth of membership and the demeanor of that membership, has some sort of appeal, that we as Baptist and Christians would do well to effect a calm and respectful conversation with its proponents so that we might, by the presence of Truth, some degree of right living and the Holy Spirit, encourage them to be weaned away from what are becoming more and more obviously, thank God for good science, false concepts.