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Nick9
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I know that speaking of God’s love and mercy is paramount, but is there room for speaking about God’s justice in our evangelizing and is it an effective method? How do you mix the two topics in one evangelization message? I find this difficult. Is God’s justice a topic best left to priests and not the laity? It always leaves me feeling guilty if I mention the need for repentance in our parish in light of the many irregular lifestyles of communicants. I am left feeling I am judging them and will be given a similar judgment by God for doing so.
I am in a ‘charismatic renewal’ parish in which we only speak of God’s love (well, everyone except me seems to). It seems strange that ideas of God’s justice and punishment have disappeared in my experience of the modern Church. I can honestly say that I do not know if this is right and from God. I find myself at odds with the ministering core of the parish because I see both sides of God.
I wonder if it is God’s will that messages of His mercy be given and not of His justice, as seen in the recent Divine Mercy devotion from St Faustina? Maybe God does not want to reveal His justice but only His mercy at this time? One of my lecturers once said that peaching hell was not fitting in these days of uncertainty and fear.
My current attitude is to focus on God’s love and mercy and not His justice, because I find it hard to combine them and love is God’s most defining attribute. Every so often, however, I get a zeal for God and feel like an OT prophet in wanting to give the parish (and world!) a good telling off for disobeying God. I wonder if these impulses are from God or the Devil, but I almost invariably end up renouncing them because of feelings of guilt and because I suspect that this is not the message God wants to give. Any comments?
God bless
I am in a ‘charismatic renewal’ parish in which we only speak of God’s love (well, everyone except me seems to). It seems strange that ideas of God’s justice and punishment have disappeared in my experience of the modern Church. I can honestly say that I do not know if this is right and from God. I find myself at odds with the ministering core of the parish because I see both sides of God.
I wonder if it is God’s will that messages of His mercy be given and not of His justice, as seen in the recent Divine Mercy devotion from St Faustina? Maybe God does not want to reveal His justice but only His mercy at this time? One of my lecturers once said that peaching hell was not fitting in these days of uncertainty and fear.
My current attitude is to focus on God’s love and mercy and not His justice, because I find it hard to combine them and love is God’s most defining attribute. Every so often, however, I get a zeal for God and feel like an OT prophet in wanting to give the parish (and world!) a good telling off for disobeying God. I wonder if these impulses are from God or the Devil, but I almost invariably end up renouncing them because of feelings of guilt and because I suspect that this is not the message God wants to give. Any comments?
God bless
