ishambat@hotmail.com (Ilya Shambat) wrote:

>A priest told in a sermon that Christianity has been practiced wrong.
>It's not about prayer, witnessing, obedience; it's about surrender to
>the holy spirit. He said that the Christian life is a supernatural
>life, in which one gets supernatural compassion and love and courage
>from Holy Spirit. I find that idea liberating.

Was it a priest or a minister? Just curious. Are you planning to get
baptized? Have you been spending too much time on Psalm 51? Acts 10.
Ephesians 1, John anything?

    John 20:31   But these are written, that ye might believe that
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have
life through his name.  

Are you going to join Jews for Jesus? Are you planning to preach the
word of the lord?

>Confucious wrote in Analects, "How can you serve a spirit if you can't
>serve a person?" He was wrong. Some people find following a spirit a
>lot less obnoxious than following a person, since the spirit does not
>have an ego, it doesn't yell you in the face, it does not have
>obnoxious qualities.
>
>I have been hearing angels and bells in my mind. Hi, God.

Are you sure this doesn't have more to do with the woman you love than
anything else?

Jeremiah. 17:9 "he heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked: who can know it?"

bob

-Romans 3:10 "There's no-one righteous, not even one."