Nice **** goin' Seamus.
No **** **** man.
I think I speak for
everyone here. ,
the majority of the people ,
some of us , at least one other dude, when I say we demand to hear daily serial type updates on the
Crusin' with Christ series.
LOL!
I'd like too and it's a hoot with this dude, but I really don't want to offend my friends here that are true believers, and that really was not my intentions, I forgot that if you combine the words hate and Christian with anything it really brings out the passion in people.
Clearly I have
thinking it through to it's logical conclusion
issues.
I'm obviously popping in here too late today.
Seamus, I want you to know that I really wasn't offended. Truly. Feel free to tell the stories you want. They won't offend me either. I didn't take it as directed at me, but rather an observation and your opinion. Like I said earlier, I feel like I should apologize on behalf of that guy.
And I feel like kicking myself after having just said that I hope I never have a poor testimony then go on to say something that makes me sound snobbish. I didn't always have the position on music that I do now. But, in the last 8 years, I've done 3 separate studies on music. Of course, I had the opportunity to prepare my heart to be open to hearing and studying things that might (and did) cause me to change my perspective. I didn't go into the studies with a predetermined bias towards more conservative music. Quite the contrary, when I started the first study, I didn't think I'd have much to change at all but still willing to. However, I realized there were some things I needed to let go of so that my life had a better capability to glorify God. The second study, while still open to both sides, confirmed the first study. The third cemented my position. And while some of the songs I used to listen to had good lyrics, I've found that there typically is so much more depth in older hymns. That's not to say I don't listen to any new songs, just not CCM. My tastes have changed. To not say that I think God has standards even for music, would also be like me not saying that there is but One Way to salvation. That may sound snobbish, but I believe the Bible to be the Word of God, and that's what
He says. I don't believe that we can't know the mind of God at all, either. He has given us His Word, and He has told us His mind on things - and from the studies I've done, I think music is one of those things.I guess what I believe will always come across as snobbish to someone, but I hope you all see that I try to do as I say I believe. That I don't just say something, but prove that I live what I believe. And that I truly am not a snob. You have a choice to believe what you want, and I believe the Bible.
I also hope that you didn't/don't take my explanations on music (or anything else) as flaming what you said. That wasn't my intention at all. Or what anyone said. There's just so much I could say on music that I get carried away. And obviously I wasn't completely up to the conversation (and giving it my whole heart, in that to say things as tactfully as I can and explain it as best as I can) because it completely exhausted me. (I haven't been able to shake off a lung infection since January, despite following the doctor's recommendations.
) That's not an excuse, I'm just thinking and typing (and sure to be rambling). Anyway, I'd like to apologize to you and anyone for getting carried away. That doesn't mean I don't believe what I said, but I could have said it better, or not all at once, or at a different time, or somewhere else, or something. So, I'm sorry and I hope you all will forgive me.
