Dear Dr. Phil;I found this blog from Geroge Gardei...

2008-06-18T15:29:00.000-04:00

Dear Dr. Phil;
I found this blog from Geroge Gardei's blog. This is even better than your Revivalist column. I'm going to put you on RSS feed.

This exhortation is very timely and IMHO much needed in our divided church world of today. As usual you cover the waterfront thoroughly with the scriptural applications in terms of our appropriate reactions.

But there is one side of this subject that I hear very few commentators mention. I would be intersted to see you develop the concept of the Church Family as an emotional quench to divisiveness and evil speaking.

The Scriptural admonition that I'm thinking of is in 1 Tim 5:1-2 the one where we are to view Older women as mothers, elder men as fathers and contemporaries as our brothers and sisters. How would I feel if it was my mother who was taken in a snare of sin? Or my father? Or a sister? Or a son?

Over the years I have found much help from careful exposistions such as yours, but I struggled with many things. Then more recently the Lord put things into an emotional familial context for me. Now I can't hear evil speaking without inward pain.

I'm sure you know that emotional reactions trump reason for most of us. When God gets the bridle on our emotions then we have something good.

I wish someone of your caliber would explore the logical and practical implications of the familial aspect of the church. Especially as it should relate to the divisiveness that is such a big part of Satan's assault on us today.

Thank you

Dave Withe

Thank you, Philip, for sharing this.

2008-04-15T12:30:00.000-04:00

Thank you, Philip, for sharing this.

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Dear Dr. Phil;I found this blog from Geroge Gardei...

Thank you, Philip, for sharing this.