Comments on: Jerks for Jesus http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/01/14/jerks-for-jesus/ Living life on mission Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:03:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jim Henderson http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/01/14/jerks-for-jesus/#comment-18043 Jim Henderson Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:45:31 +0000 http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/01/14/jerks-for-jesus/#comment-18043 Jeremy Send us your address to infoAToffthemapDOTcom and we will send you a DVD with Casper and I. (for free :-) Jeremy

Send us your address to infoAToffthemapDOTcom and we will send you a DVD with Casper and I. (for free :-)

]]> By: Jeremy Myers http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/01/14/jerks-for-jesus/#comment-18011 Jeremy Myers Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:43:37 +0000 http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/01/14/jerks-for-jesus/#comment-18011 Jim, I feel honored that you came over here and commented. I have already checked out your website (since you write about it in your book) and will be using that resource more in the days and weeks ahead. I may have another post about your book as I continue reading it. Thanks for writing it! Jim,

I feel honored that you came over here and commented. I have already checked out your website (since you write about it in your book) and will be using that resource more in the days and weeks ahead.

I may have another post about your book as I continue reading it. Thanks for writing it!

]]> By: Jim Henderson http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/01/14/jerks-for-jesus/#comment-18008 Jim Henderson Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:31:12 +0000 http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/01/14/jerks-for-jesus/#comment-18008 Jeremy I am honored that you would take time to read Casper and my book. I'm glad that it is helping you navigate the things that don't make sense. You might enjoy interacting at www.churchrater.com Jim Jeremy

I am honored that you would take time to read Casper and my book. I’m glad that it is helping you navigate the things that don’t make sense.

You might enjoy interacting at http://www.churchrater.com

Jim

]]> By: David Wyatt http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/01/14/jerks-for-jesus/#comment-17635 David Wyatt Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:14:55 +0000 http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/01/14/jerks-for-jesus/#comment-17635 Hey bro. Jeremy God Bless you. Bro. Brian, Your post really blessed my heart! Thanks brother. Hey bro. Jeremy God Bless you.

Bro. Brian,

Your post really blessed my heart! Thanks brother.

]]> By: Jeremy Myers http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/01/14/jerks-for-jesus/#comment-16826 Jeremy Myers Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:08:25 +0000 http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/01/14/jerks-for-jesus/#comment-16826 Brian, Thanks for the excellent comment. I previously worked with a former Marine and consider him a close friend. Thanks for the encouragement! Brian,

Thanks for the excellent comment. I previously worked with a former Marine and consider him a close friend. Thanks for the encouragement!

]]> By: Jeremy Myers http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/01/14/jerks-for-jesus/#comment-16825 Jeremy Myers Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:05:47 +0000 http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/01/14/jerks-for-jesus/#comment-16825 Tia, Yes, i've read it and really enjoyed his book. I also read your blog, and subscribe to it through bloglines.com. I have commented there once or twice, I think... Tia,

Yes, i’ve read it and really enjoyed his book. I also read your blog, and subscribe to it through bloglines.com. I have commented there once or twice, I think…

]]> By: Tia Lynn http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/01/14/jerks-for-jesus/#comment-16765 Tia Lynn Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:30:59 +0000 http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/01/14/jerks-for-jesus/#comment-16765 Have you ever read, "The Like jesus, but not the church" by Dan Kimball? I think you'd like it. If you have time, come on over to my blog, I posted a book review on it. Have you ever read, “The Like jesus, but not the church” by Dan Kimball? I think you’d like it. If you have time, come on over to my blog, I posted a book review on it.

]]> By: Brian Hedrick http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/01/14/jerks-for-jesus/#comment-16655 Brian Hedrick Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:01:05 +0000 http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/01/14/jerks-for-jesus/#comment-16655 I used to lament the fact that I left Bob Jones University so many years ago. I still believe what they believe, but now reading this post I find myself thankful that God has given me the opportunity to day after day be among the lost and befriend them and talk to them about anything from sports to politics to Jesus. I have lunch with them as well. Some of them are aitheistic and others are muslim or Mexican. In one sense perhaps this was all part of God's will to get me to mingle. I used to kind of think I missed his will or failed him in not following through with Bible college. I can see why many pastors feel somewhat isolated from reaching people...but dont slay yourself and if there are pastors reading this...remember that your job is to preach the word of God and feed the flock. Many in your churches....people like me are befriending and witnessing day in a day out. So don't be discouraged. We need to be fed on Sundays by our pastors and you are blessing us that way. Still...you can befriend athiest, but don't slay yourself to much. We are all placed in certain places for certain reasons. I have to work around rednecks, yankees, black people as well as many Mexicans and you will be surprised how God opens doors and works. It is tough and I sometimes feel very lonely and often some Christians at church who are isolated in an homeschool environment often shame me for not being as holy or structured as they are and am not as well received in the Southern Baptist Church I go to, but perhaps they are slaying themselve and feeling guilty that they are not reaching the lost or befriending the lost and eating lunch with them and talking and communing with them often with opportunities to talk about Jesus here and there. Remember that Jesus grew in favor with both God and man. Both God and man. He "grew" in that, not by reading a manual, but actually grew and learned as he suffered within the scope of it all on the earth. I remember when I was in the Marines, I learned all the how too's in infantry training school but it wasnt until I got into the fleet and crunch time came in oppositions and a war did we all really begin to grow. God's doing something, but always remember that biblical fundamentalism is indeed the truth. Its not that Jesus was a militant fundy, but He is the truth that fundyism teaches however ungracefully they do at times and Jesus is working to make it function in our lives. Actually he is working to make us function from what we have learned and how we depend on His Spirit learning the ulitimate truth in the gracewalk. I can remember baracks Marines would come join our already existing platoon after a couple years away. They went straight from training to easy duty oversees somewhere. They polished their metal and still and wore the pretty dress blues all the time, but they did not grow with us...still when they later came after their tour to join us they began to learn. That didn't make them any less Marines than we were. They were needed for a differant purpose at a differant time. I often look the same way toward those Bob Jonesy types as Barracks Marines who will learn some tough stuff later....but God is working in their lives still. All of you Dallas Seminarians and Masters Seminarians. You may all be wooden and bookish right now, but God will break you down for whatever environment he needs you in. I am a little rough around the edges, but maybe that is why I fit among the group he has me with now. Love in Christ and Grace upon Grace, Brian I used to lament the fact that I left Bob Jones University so many years ago. I still believe what they believe, but now reading this post I find myself thankful that God has given me the opportunity to day after day be among the lost and befriend them and talk to them about anything from sports to politics to Jesus. I have lunch with them as well. Some of them are aitheistic and others are muslim or Mexican. In one sense perhaps this was all part of God’s will to get me to mingle. I used to kind of think I missed his will or failed him in not following through with Bible college. I can see why many pastors feel somewhat isolated from reaching people…but dont slay yourself and if there are pastors reading this…remember that your job is to preach the word of God and feed the flock. Many in your churches….people like me are befriending and witnessing day in a day out. So don’t be discouraged. We need to be fed on Sundays by our pastors and you are blessing us that way. Still…you can befriend athiest, but don’t slay yourself to much. We are all placed in certain places for certain reasons. I have to work around rednecks, yankees, black people as well as many Mexicans and you will be surprised how God opens doors and works. It is tough and I sometimes feel very lonely and often some Christians at church who are isolated in an homeschool environment often shame me for not being as holy or structured as they are and am not as well received in the Southern Baptist Church I go to, but perhaps they are slaying themselve and feeling guilty that they are not reaching the lost or befriending the lost and eating lunch with them and talking and communing with them often with opportunities to talk about Jesus here and there. Remember that Jesus grew in favor with both God and man. Both God and man. He “grew” in that, not by reading a manual, but actually grew and learned as he suffered within the scope of it all on the earth.

I remember when I was in the Marines, I learned all the how too’s in infantry training school but it wasnt until I got into the fleet and crunch time came in oppositions and a war did we all really begin to grow. God’s doing something, but always remember that biblical fundamentalism is indeed the truth. Its not that Jesus was a militant fundy, but He is the truth that fundyism teaches however ungracefully they do at times and Jesus is working to make it function in our lives. Actually he is working to make us function from what we have learned and how we depend on His Spirit learning the ulitimate truth in the gracewalk.

I can remember baracks Marines would come join our already existing platoon after a couple years away. They went straight from training to easy duty oversees somewhere. They polished their metal and still and wore the pretty dress blues all the time, but they did not grow with us…still when they later came after their tour to join us they began to learn. That didn’t make them any less Marines than we were. They were needed for a differant purpose at a differant time. I often look the same way toward those Bob Jonesy types as Barracks Marines who will learn some tough stuff later….but God is working in their lives still. All of you Dallas Seminarians and Masters Seminarians. You may all be wooden and bookish right now, but God will break you down for whatever environment he needs you in. I am a little rough around the edges, but maybe that is why I fit among the group he has me with now.

Love in Christ and Grace upon Grace,

Brian

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