Rev 2:1-7, Rev 2:18-29 please take it away Biblebot

I was struck by how Ephesus is praised for rightly calling out false teaching, but then sternly warned for not being loving. I see a lot of joy in right wing Christians in calling out absurd and harmful teaching. But without care it's a path to a callous heart in the face of people who need to be shown love.

Not that there are any rightoids on this gay cat dating website or anything.

Almost opposite is the church in Thyatira, love and faith are growing, but too quick to tolerate false teaching and sexual immorality. There's also a subtext that they're sucking up to the State in the hopes to curry worldly political favor - which Jesus warns will be fleeting when compared to the crowns he offers for following him. You can think up your own modern parallels if you feel like it.

My prayer is that you stand firm on solid teaching, but have an open and soft heart to those who are hurting, even as they hurt others. Meditate on Matthew 10:16.

God bless all of you! I hope you had a good week and a good Sunday!

This week my pastor gave a somewhat confusing sermon in his series on Exodus where he talked about the precision with which God executed the plagues and how they showed his command over all the elements (as compared with pagan gods who would only control one thing) but he was SUPPOSED to (at least he said he would last week) tie things into God's loving nature and how they ultimately proceeded from that and he didn't really connect that dot, at least as far as I understood.

But where understanding fails faith sees us through! What did your church talk about this week, and what did you think of it?

If you have something you'd like me or anyone else to pray for, say so here! And I'll pray for you and maybe other people will pray for you too. If you want to pray for someone with a prayer request, go for it!

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I won't demand you give 100 hail Mary's or eat our disgusting wafer or drink cheap wine but would like to be a part of the non denominational community

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Had a men's only chili contest night at the church yesterday. I came in second in the traditional division. We went over 1 Samuel 1-15, wherein Jonathan displays the ability to move and follow god's calling upon him to route the superior philistine forces. We discussed complacency and how to not be in a rut of complacency when waiting for God to call upon us. What passages have spoken to you this week?