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Subject: Re: Prayer for Mark K. Bilbo
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Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:02:52 -0600
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Mark K. Bilbo wrote:
> In our last episode <ukgCd.40092$nP1.19979@twister.socal.rr.com>, Jason
> Gastrich lept out of the bushes shouting:
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>>Bless Mark Bilbo.
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> You rang?
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>>Let him get saved by your awesome grace.
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> Been there, done that, didn't get a t-shirt though. Hell, you were still a
> sperm when I was "saved."
>
> Anyway... this is downright creepy of you Gastrich...
>
It's just Gastrich's little way. Your average, normal
Christian might pray this for you; but would do so the way Jesus
told us to. It'd be done in solitary prayer to God. If one
really believes that God listens to prayer, and can move someone
to come to Him, then a public prayer is unnecessary, and perhaps
counter-productive. If, on the other hand, you think God needs
you to get this saving stuff done, then one might do what
Gastrich did.
Of course, it is just as likely that Gastrich is using the
prayer as a weapon in some war he thinks he's fighting; and
certainly, he thinks it's going to get him gold stamps he can
paste in his "Jewels on my Crown in Heaven" book. With five
filled books, he gets a better harp. With 10, he gets to sit at
one of the middle tables in the Great Hall. With 10,000, he
gets to sit next to God.
--
Tom McDonald
http://ahwhatdoiknow.blogspot.com/
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