Moderators Gregory Matthews Posted April 6, 2017 Moderators Posted April 6, 2017 See: http://spectrummagazine.org/article/2017/04/06/appetizers-and-affairs I have substantial agreement with this article. Further, I suggest that it has a lot to consider as we relate to the society in which we live today. Quote Gregory
Outta Here Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 I agree with one of the comments in the section after the article: "Transparency is good." Quote
Moderators Gregory Matthews Posted April 19, 2017 Author Moderators Posted April 19, 2017 Yes, that is important. On a practical level, in all areas of our life, how do we respond to transparency? Quote Gregory
Administrators debbym Posted April 19, 2017 Administrators Posted April 19, 2017 we all answer to God. Whatever weaknesses i have, there is a responsibility and a privilege to seek God's help. I cannot depend on everyone else to be doing right and to be keeping their boundaries, i have to guard my heart and be responsible for myself. If you are married to a jealous type, who has this weakness, and insecurity, then you may be living with a form of insanity that leads you to be extremely careful not to distress them. Pence's words may very likely be not about himself but about His wife. She may not be concerned about public figures who have obvious reasons to manage themselves extremely responsibly. It is just a passing thought, we really cannot know. We are to be avoiding an appearance of evil. Different cultures have different ways of defining what is appropriate and then their are profound individual differences in what our weaknesses and strengths are. If i am struggling to avoid sugar, i will avoid the local chocolate shop. If i am avoiding fried foods i will avoid the local fragrant greasy spoon/fast food joint. But if the Lord sends me on a mission to a soul in that place i will be fortified in surrender to His will. We have enough stories of men and women whose lives are a series of moral train wrecks on the landscape, with trails of ruined lives left in the wake. We are weak, and when we know that, and have motivation to take responsibility for it the Lord has no shortage of power to give us. i cannot depend on anyone else to guard my soul or my life. i have a pastor friend who did not allow me into his house to talk to him and it seemed it was because he was home alone without his wife, and i am personally perfectly ok with that. Their are morally ruthless men as well as women, and it is uncomfortable to be being pursued against your will. And you never know who or when this kind of seduction may take place. and it is not necessarily only about sex, it could be money, or things. Using your position for any kind of personal gain, and being bribed emotionally or physically can occur around the corner any time. God calls us to much higher standards that the world asks of us. Ideally Christians are able to stand for Christ regardless of the temptations, but it is because they have faced those temptations and fully know their weakness and have ran to the name of the Lord which is a mighty tower and able to keep them safe. GayatfootofCross 1 Quote deb Love awakens love. Let God be true and every man a liar.
GayatfootofCross Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 Maybe one or so year ago, my partner and I were regularly going to Bible study every Friday night. The Christian couple would feed us and then we all would go into the living room to study. There was a very good looking young man in the group who came with his mother who showed up a few times before. I have very good gaydar ( can tell if a man has leanings toward same sex attraction) and it pinged when i first met him but so what. And he is younger than my son. One evening after the meal he wanted to go outside to have a cigarette and asked me to join him and we went outside. We are just talking then he said to me .. "I have pictures of me naked on the internet" ( i am not using his exact words in a G RATED FORUM) Oh dear! I knew exactly what he was up to. I was either gonna flirt with disaster or leave. I immediately went back into the house and chose not to ever be alone with him again. I am not gonna lie..It felt good to be wanted by a good looking guy. And it took me back to my party days when I was all over the place. I don't get that kind of attention anymore for the most part. I never told anyone, afraid it would get back to his mother who would have been deeply embarrassed. I wish for the sake of Christ it wouldn't have tempted me so maybe I could be called to mentor him. ? Since then he has made some very troubling choices in his life and underneath it all I can tell he wanted someone to love and understand him who he can look up to. But I couldn't be that guy for him. Outta Here and LifeHiscost 2 Quote For all Eternity God waited in anticipation for You to show up to give You a Message - YOUR INCLUDED !!! { a merry dance }?️? " If you tarry 'til you're better You will never come at all " .. "I Will Rise" by the late great saved Glen Campbell If your picture of God is starting to feel too good to be true, you're starting to move in the right direction. "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite." Romeo and Juliet
Outta Here Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 8 minutes ago, GayatfootofCross said: Since then he has made some very troubling choices in his life and underneath it all I can tell he wanted someone to love and understand him who he can look up to. But I couldn't be that guy for him. If I have never loved you before this, I love you now. LifeHiscost, GayatfootofCross and JoeMo 3 Quote
B/W Photodude Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 Another take on the whole issue of men working with women: "A new book claims that male office workers are now so afraid of being on the receiving end of a sexual harassment case, they are reluctant to mentor, assist, befriend and even hold open doors for female colleagues." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/11904203/Well-done-feminism.-Now-man-are-afraid-to-help-women-at-work.html This article helps explain the politician side of the issue: http://nypost.com/2015/05/26/why-powerful-men-now-hide-behind-open-doors/ Just sayin' Quote >>>Texts in blue type are quotes<<< ***************************************************************************** And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. --Shakespeare from Hamlet ***************************************************************************** Bill Liversidge Seminars The Emergent Church and the Invasion of Spiritualism
Administrators debbym Posted April 19, 2017 Administrators Posted April 19, 2017 it can definitely go both ways, Look at Joseph and Potiphar's wife. And look at parents who are expected to have self control, with their rebellious kids, but what parent has not reached new demands of self control and been thrown by a child determined to rule emotionally if not in other ways... parents can abuse authority but kids can also be abusive towards parents and even murder them. LifeHiscost 1 Quote deb Love awakens love. Let God be true and every man a liar.
GayatfootofCross Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 21 minutes ago, Aubrey said: If I have never loved you before this, I love you now. You are so sweet! Love you back! ................................................ One of the things that God has revealed to me about sexual purity besides being able to look God in the eye in relationship with Him (He always looks back at us with non condemnation and pure love) Sin distorts our view of HIM and seeing His CONSTANT unconditional acceptance of us .. but I digress. Sexual purity gives us the ability to be with people and make them feel comfortable as whole beings. Others to feel safe around us. So trust and crucial transparent fellowship is formed. God knows what He is doing. Its not only for us. It is for others who happen upon us. Outta Here 1 Quote For all Eternity God waited in anticipation for You to show up to give You a Message - YOUR INCLUDED !!! { a merry dance }?️? " If you tarry 'til you're better You will never come at all " .. "I Will Rise" by the late great saved Glen Campbell If your picture of God is starting to feel too good to be true, you're starting to move in the right direction. "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite." Romeo and Juliet
LifeHiscost Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 Sin distorts our view of HIM and seeing His CONSTANT unconditional acceptance of us Condition: 9 If we confess our sins, Result:... he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness....1 John God is Love!~Jesus saves! Quote Lift Jesus up!!
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