She was raised in a...
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She was raised in a Christian home. I was her pastor. Over the many years I served that church, she was one of the faithful. But I could tell by the look on her face that she was troubled about something. I invited her to come and share with me sometime. She came to my office and unloaded a story I will never forget. She said to me through her tears, "My mother never ceases to tell me that I am not a member of God's family since I am no longer a member of her own particular denomination." I knew her mother. I felt a kindred spirit with both of them. But I could not appreciate her mother's position on salvation. Did she have a right to speak for God? Who was she to say her daughter was outside the Kingdom of God? The arrogance of the whole situation troubled me. The apostle Paul was troubled at those who felt that God would one day say "enough is enough" to the Israelites who rejected the Savior. But God sees the ending from the beginning. His only plans are to afford all persons the opportunity to come to know his only-begotten Son as their Lord and Savior. The song writer says it even better: "Come every soul by sin oppressed, there's mercy with the Lord."
-- Shearer
-- Shearer
