Love stuff

Alright! Get ready for another of Artie's wonderful, wild , and all powerful venting sessions ! Love. I'm really sick of hearing that in the church today. Don't misunderstand me. We need Love. We were created to be loved. We were meant to Love. The unfortunate truth is that we in the church has " loved too much " .The church today and its leader-now that is a scary thing in itself, has expressed that we need to love on each other. Yeah, I was sucker- onied on that to.Here is the gripe.. In the area of sin- oooh now I'm starting to bug some of you already- the church has "loved" too much and not disciplined enough. We've gotten wimpy because the enemy and the world don't want us to be powerful- it would cut out all there fun! Confronting sin in aGodly and loving manner is not a popular thing to do in the church today. God's Word gives us guidelines to do it the right way. Since people don't take His Word seriously, they don't do it right and it blows up in their faces.Listen, sin has to be dealt with. What if, at your job-say woodworking, your boss doesn't show you how to properly cut on the saw correctly by pointing out the wrong methods, you will end up minus a few appendages. God loves the sinner but He hates the sin. We need to love one another, but true love is also best displayed when we confront sin in a Christ-like manner. Christ loved the Pharisees enough to show them their faults. Yet many of them didn't receive it well.Nevertheless, Jesus still poured out His life for them. Knowing the cost of rejection, He still confronted their sin from time to time and then died on the cross for their sins-now that is love.Jesus took a risk to against the world order of religion.Jesus love man but He also had the guts to confront man's sin and finally gave His life for our sin.
If we follow Christ's example and be true to His Word, The church may lose a few stiff-necked people but will find countless more achieving victory and deliverance from the bondage of sin.