Pastors and Porn. What a world this is becoming

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If Martin Luther saw what his reformation created he probably would have not started it at all.
 
I feel like Martin Luther genuinely wanted to reform the Catholic Church and some of his ideas weren’t bad. I think once he was rejected by the Church that’s when he started to create a new religion.
 
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The fact the ELCA bishops stand around and not defrock this so-called pastor says a lot about them. Not only that, she humiliated her ex-husband she divorced from so she could shack up with her ex-boyfriend in an interview with a prominent magazine. Still no action from the ELCA.

What is disturbing is she is a star of the ‘progressive Christian’ movement and fawned over by journalists covering religion for secular publications. Little condemnation from them on social media but plenty on how not supporting gay ‘marriage’ and abortion on demand is wrong.
 
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I think once he was rejected by the Church that’s when he started to create a new religion.
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I would urge you to read the Augsburg Confession, the doctrinal confession made by the Lutheran princes to Charles the Vth and demonstrate which doctrinal points are “new” in the sense that they are against what the apostle’s taught in their writings.
 
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If Martin Luther saw what his reformation created he probably would have not started it at all.
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And maybe the popes of the time would have been less corrupt.
But before we blame people of old for modern day flaws (Catholics are quite aware of modern flaws in their own communion), perhaps we should look at our own times.
 
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If the church was not as corrupt or Luther went about his reformation a diffrent way Luther could have been a saint.
 
So are all Christians. But there is saint lower case which is “those who are being made holy” and Capital S Saints which are those who have reached holiness
 
One person who knows a great deal about biblical meditation is Ronald a Jensen, former president of the School of Theology of the International Christian Graduate University. In a booklet published by the International Council of biblical Inerrancy he tells how he had developed a successful pornography business when he was still in elementary school, buying sexually explicit literature and pictures and selling them to friends at a profit. He ran it out of his basement. When he became a Christian what he was and what he had been doing changed dramatically. Nevertheless, although he abandoned his pornography business and got active in the church, he still had trouble with his thought life because the strong sexual material he had been feeding on had become part of what he was. He described it by saying, when you sow a thought, you reap an action. When you sow that action, you reap a habit. When you sow that habit, you reap a character and when you sow that character, you reap a destiny. He had been sowing lustful thoughts, and a lustful character had been formed.

What delivered him from the pornographic pattern of life was discovering how to meditate on the Bible’s teaching. He learn how to transform by the renewing of his mind Romans 12:2. Meditation involved thinking what the passage he was studying was about and internalizing it, imagining what it would mean for him is specific acts of conduct. He even worked on singing specific versus to whatever tune seem to fit them, because singing help fix the biblical truth in his mind. He was changed. His conclusion was this biblical meditation is hard work, but the reward is worth it - a consistent, victorious Christian Life.

This is what he wrote:

Remember this maxim:

“Sow a thought and reap an act.
Sow an act and reap a habit.
Sow a habit and reap a character.
Sow a character and reap a destiny.”

Next, we must internalize truth and apply it to our lives. A successful person not only hears the Word of God, but also acts upon it. You may have laudable intentions, but the key issue is your behavior.

Written article by James Montgomery, “Psalms” Volume 3
 
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Good thoughts.
Grace is not magic. Many times good advice stops at praying. Praying is certainly primary. Reading scriptures and pondering them is primary.

And at the same time, the practice of virtue opens one’s life as a conduit for grace.
And that’s hard work.

People addicted to pleasure fail repeatedly for the same reason they pursue lust: they want easy pious fixes without the long suffering practice of virtue, and that ain’t gonna happen. Been there done that.
 
This is evil. Unqualified, undeniable evil.

This “pastor” is in the pocket of Satan, whether they recognize it or not.

Isaiah 5:20:
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
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As an actual addict to this filth, there is no such thing as good or bad porn. It’s all bad. It all damages your brain. It all ruins your soul. And it will all lead you to damnation, regardless of how willing or "loving’ the participants are.
 
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