Comments on: Would the Real Christians Please Stand Up? http://amybayliss.com/2008/04/would-real-christians-please-stand-up_4963/ Cajun Joie de Vivre: Stepping Stones to a Fulfilled Life Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: JackiesMagic http://amybayliss.com/2008/04/would-real-christians-please-stand-up_4963/#comment-1010 JackiesMagic Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:54:34 +0000 http://localhost:8888/amybayliss/?p=449#comment-1010 I am particularly grateful to read this post! I discovered your blog late last night.. Even sent you an email regarding your help with my own (newest) ministry. I was born baptist, but about 10 years ago, I got what I refer to as judgment fatigue. Picked it up at church spending all my time with like minded Christians. Now.. I have a true aversion to organized religion. Well.. it's not so much an aversion anymore. I had to work on forgiving 'the church' and some 'church folks.' <br /><br />THANK YOU! THANK YOU! FOR being so honest and for sharing this. <br /><br />I look forward to reading more from you, and hopefully we can connect to get some much needed help with my new ministry.. quite similar to yours.. Just consider my ministry for Saint who "SIP."<br /><br />Many blessings!<br />Jackie (Dallas, TX)<br /><br />I just scrolled up to see that you wrote this back in 2008. Hope you're still accepting comments! I am particularly grateful to read this post! I discovered your blog late last night.. Even sent you an email regarding your help with my own (newest) ministry. I was born baptist, but about 10 years ago, I got what I refer to as judgment fatigue. Picked it up at church spending all my time with like minded Christians. Now.. I have a true aversion to organized religion. Well.. it's not so much an aversion anymore. I had to work on forgiving 'the church' and some 'church folks.'

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! FOR being so honest and for sharing this.

I look forward to reading more from you, and hopefully we can connect to get some much needed help with my new ministry.. quite similar to yours.. Just consider my ministry for Saint who "SIP."

Many blessings!
Jackie (Dallas, TX)

I just scrolled up to see that you wrote this back in 2008. Hope you're still accepting comments!

]]> By: Angela http://amybayliss.com/2008/04/would-real-christians-please-stand-up_4963/#comment-1011 Angela Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:43:00 +0000 http://localhost:8888/amybayliss/?p=449#comment-1011 So good... this is wonderful!! I would love if you could expound on this subject as far as what it means to love one another without judgment, but how that does not mean accepting sin into your life. I think this is where it gets fuzzy for many... they don't understand how you can love someone and not accept everything others believe. Know what I mean? <br /><br />Your blog never fails to uplift me! So good… this is wonderful!! I would love if you could expound on this subject as far as what it means to love one another without judgment, but how that does not mean accepting sin into your life. I think this is where it gets fuzzy for many… they don’t understand how you can love someone and not accept everything others believe. Know what I mean?

Your blog never fails to uplift me!

]]> By: beloved Mama http://amybayliss.com/2008/04/would-real-christians-please-stand-up_4963/#comment-1012 beloved Mama Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:40:00 +0000 http://localhost:8888/amybayliss/?p=449#comment-1012 so true so true!!!! I so agree with everything you said!!! so true so true!!!! I so agree with everything you said!!!

]]> By: twinklemom http://amybayliss.com/2008/04/would-real-christians-please-stand-up_4963/#comment-1013 twinklemom Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:31:00 +0000 http://localhost:8888/amybayliss/?p=449#comment-1013 Wonderful post and reminds me SO much of a post I had recently <a href="http://sunflowerfaith.blogspot.com/2008/04/thundering-skies-and-god-calls.html" rel="nofollow">written</a> along these lines.<br /><br />I think for many...and it's something my pastor had preached about...they slip into a "flesh" based relationship with Jesus Christ and without realizing it, create a pharisee based, regulation govern religion and forget that this is a spirit based relationship with Jesus Christ.<br /><br />A relationship with Jesus Christ is unique in that..while other religions have their list of do's and don't's...Having a relationship with Jesus Christ is about the fact it is "done".<br /><br />Our pastor would say, if you want to have a Christ-based relationship; having a real relationship with Jesus Christ is that while man looks at outward appearances, we have to remember that in 1 Samuel 16:7, The Lord said unto Samuel, look not in his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart."<br /><br />It's the man's heart that matters..not what they look like. Christ walked among thieves, taxpayers (who were considered the creme de la creme of scum), prositutes and rejects of society because HE knew they needed Him; Not the healthy, not the nicely dressed.<br /><br />He didn't love their lifestyle...He loved THEM. Through Jesus Christ, they would be cleansed, not through us, or themselves, but through Jesus Christ.<br /><br />There is an awesome quote on <a href="http://www.bibletruths.org/living/ChristianLifestyle.html" rel="nofollow">"The Christian Lifestyle-Does God Care?</a><i>"Therefore, what you look like really isn't important at all. What is on the outside doesn't make any difference. It's no reflection on what's on the inside. It makes no difference because God looks on the heart, and therefore, what the world sees is not really important at all."</i><br /><br />We are to love the sinner not the sin and help lead them as ambassadors of Christ to God. Wonderful post and reminds me SO much of a post I had recently written along these lines.

I think for many…and it’s something my pastor had preached about…they slip into a “flesh” based relationship with Jesus Christ and without realizing it, create a pharisee based, regulation govern religion and forget that this is a spirit based relationship with Jesus Christ.

A relationship with Jesus Christ is unique in that..while other religions have their list of do’s and don’t's…Having a relationship with Jesus Christ is about the fact it is “done”.

Our pastor would say, if you want to have a Christ-based relationship; having a real relationship with Jesus Christ is that while man looks at outward appearances, we have to remember that in 1 Samuel 16:7, The Lord said unto Samuel, look not in his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.”

It’s the man’s heart that matters..not what they look like. Christ walked among thieves, taxpayers (who were considered the creme de la creme of scum), prositutes and rejects of society because HE knew they needed Him; Not the healthy, not the nicely dressed.

He didn’t love their lifestyle…He loved THEM. Through Jesus Christ, they would be cleansed, not through us, or themselves, but through Jesus Christ.

There is an awesome quote on “The Christian Lifestyle-Does God Care?“Therefore, what you look like really isn’t important at all. What is on the outside doesn’t make any difference. It’s no reflection on what’s on the inside. It makes no difference because God looks on the heart, and therefore, what the world sees is not really important at all.”

We are to love the sinner not the sin and help lead them as ambassadors of Christ to God.

]]> By: Sun-Kissed Savages http://amybayliss.com/2008/04/would-real-christians-please-stand-up_4963/#comment-1014 Sun-Kissed Savages Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:56:00 +0000 http://localhost:8888/amybayliss/?p=449#comment-1014 How convicting! This is wonderful. <br /><br />And happy birthday!! :-) How convicting! This is wonderful.

And happy birthday!! :-)

]]> By: Laura in MO http://amybayliss.com/2008/04/would-real-christians-please-stand-up_4963/#comment-1015 Laura in MO Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:06:00 +0000 http://localhost:8888/amybayliss/?p=449#comment-1015 Amy -<br />Thanks for sharing your thoughts and your heart here. I too have been troubled of late by this very same issue. You expressed what *I* have been thinking much more eloquently that I ever could have. :) Amy -
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and your heart here. I too have been troubled of late by this very same issue. You expressed what *I* have been thinking much more eloquently that I ever could have. :)

]]> By: Joy http://amybayliss.com/2008/04/would-real-christians-please-stand-up_4963/#comment-1016 Joy Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:44:00 +0000 http://localhost:8888/amybayliss/?p=449#comment-1016 This very thing has been on my mind and therefore on my blog lately too. I'm so encouraged to read this and find another like-minded sister. Thank you. This very thing has been on my mind and therefore on my blog lately too. I’m so encouraged to read this and find another like-minded sister. Thank you.

]]> By: Tracy Berta-daughter to the King, wife, mother, speaker, writer http://amybayliss.com/2008/04/would-real-christians-please-stand-up_4963/#comment-1017 Tracy Berta-daughter to the King, wife, mother, speaker, writer Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:44:00 +0000 http://localhost:8888/amybayliss/?p=449#comment-1017 Amen, Sister!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />Sent over an email earlier, check spam if you didn't get it! :)<br /><br />Blessings!!! Amen, Sister!!!!!!!!!!

Sent over an email earlier, check spam if you didn’t get it! :)

Blessings!!!

]]> By: lori http://amybayliss.com/2008/04/would-real-christians-please-stand-up_4963/#comment-1018 lori Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:07:00 +0000 http://localhost:8888/amybayliss/?p=449#comment-1018 Oh girl!! STAND UP AND PREACH!! AMEN!<br />You know I've heard such things too...we don't want THEM or THEIR KIND in our church and even a friend of my daughters say, "they can't be a Christian, they have a tatoo..." Well, my girl set that straight...LOVE, LOVE, LOVE...<br />I said it in my post at HOTM...we can be discerning without being judgemental...I've learned that lesson well.....<br /><br />Judging never won anyone....<br /><br />AMY, taking this with me!!<br />Blessings!!<br />hugs,<br />lori Oh girl!! STAND UP AND PREACH!! AMEN!
You know I’ve heard such things too…we don’t want THEM or THEIR KIND in our church and even a friend of my daughters say, “they can’t be a Christian, they have a tatoo…” Well, my girl set that straight…LOVE, LOVE, LOVE…
I said it in my post at HOTM…we can be discerning without being judgemental…I’ve learned that lesson well…..

Judging never won anyone….

AMY, taking this with me!!
Blessings!!
hugs,
lori

]]> By: Sallie http://amybayliss.com/2008/04/would-real-christians-please-stand-up_4963/#comment-1019 Sallie Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:02:00 +0000 http://localhost:8888/amybayliss/?p=449#comment-1019 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMY!!!!!<br /><br />May God bless you with many more sweet ones :-)<br /><br />Sallie HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMY!!!!!

May God bless you with many more sweet ones :-)

Sallie

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