Lucy:   Scaughdt, everything you do is for your own glory; there is no praise to God!  You have no idea of who Jesus really is, and it saddens me that I see a lost Soul crying out — and all you have to do is let God speak to you and He will lead you to his truth.  But you are unwilling to let Him lead you!  You are not letting Jesus live through you.  You want to take command and do things your way.  You want to change Jesus into what you want him to be!  You want to change him into a worldly figure, but he is not of this world — He is God!  … You tell us who you are by what you say in these comments and by the pamphlets and books that you are writing — and you are someone that the Word of God tells us to stay away from; someone who distorts God’s Word … God does not take that lightly!  I pray that you will let God lead you … Seek the truth in God’s Word!   If you will let Him, then He will show you … If you have any doubt in what you are trying to teach people you might want to listen, because it just might be God speaking to you!   I say these things because I care about your Soul … Satan uses people through a distortion of God’s Word, and that is what I see from you, my Friend! … You just don’t know how awesome you could be for God if you really knew Him!!!

 

Scaughdt:    My goodness, Lucy, you pegged me completely incorrectly in this comment!!!  No surprise, of course … I mean, how could you know anything about me of any significance based solely on a few Facebook threads?  Come to think of it, how could you know enough about homosexuals – any homosexuals, including Oliver Clyde Allen – to judge them as being “mortal sinners” (especially when homosexuality itself is not a sin)?  How can you do this, my Friend?  How can you judge others based solely on what you have been told about them or what you think about the way they might be living?  Interesting question, that one is … Don’t you think?
But I guess that is the point, isn’t it?  It all really comes down to Matthew 7:1-2 & judgment — namely your condemnatory judgment of homosexuals, which has more than a bit of arrogance mixed in to boot.   Maybe you don’t sink into this “sin” all the time (I like to think that you rarely do so in your “real life”), and yet you do so pretty frequently here on Facebook; certainly whenever you are talking with me.   I mean, forgetting for a moment that Christianity is only one of 19 major religions currently thriving on our planet, are you seriously telling me that you alone have access to a Truth that the majority of even your fellow Christians do not share or possess?  Why would God not share your conservative, fundamentalist, “true” interpretations with them as well?

 

Lucy, there are over 30,000 Christian denominations that have beliefs that differ from yours – many of them differing on the matters at hand (e.g. salvation & damnation & God’s nature & homosexuality) – and you are telling us that you & yours alone are right and that they are all wrong?!?!?   How can you not at the very least accept the slim possibility that someone else has a biblical belief system (fully backed by Scripture & scholarship) that is at least as valid as your own?   How is this anything other than a manifestation of raw pride, my Friend?

Seriously, Lucy … If I were truly doing “everything for my own glory”, why in the world would I have given away almost all of my possessions? … Why would I refuse to promote myself and refuse to try and mass-publish any of my writings? … Why would I have no home of my own? … Why would I have changed my name and refuse to speak about any of my past accomplishments? … Why would I post most of my quotes online as either “inspired by [the name of another author]” or as “anonymous”? … Why would I walk The Way of Christ instead of the much more popular (and much more comfortable) Path of Paul? … And why-oh-why would I come to your husband’s Facebook page to engage a conversation where I know ahead of time I will be either ridiculed or blasted or ignored by almost everyone “listening in”?

 

Rest assured, my Friend, I do none of the things in my life for my own glory — but rather solely to continue what Jesus started; to spread his message of radical Love & humble service and to give glory to the only Essence that deserves the same – LOVE:  the “Father” who rests within and all around each & every one of us in every moment of our lives.

 

In closing, please consider the following:  *You claim that I “have no Idea of who Jesus really is”, and yet neither do you … *You claim that you “see a lost Soul crying out” in me, and yet when you do so, you are actually only seeing yourself … *You claim that “all [I] have to do is let God speak to [me] and he will lead [me] to his truth”, and yet you cannot even realize that at least one of God’s great Truths (the Truth of Jesus’ heavenly Father) is being shared with you through me right now in this very thread …  *You claim that I am unwilling to let God lead me, and yet I have been humbly & devoutly (& indeed radically) following Jesus’ Way and his Way alone for the past eleven years of my life … *You claim that I want to take command and “do things my own way”, when in fact I am merely adhering quite literally to the teachings of Jesus, supposedly your own Lord & Savior … *You claim that I want to “change Jesus into what [I] want him to be”, while refusing to see that everything I feel & know & believe about Jesus comes directly from his lips in the Gospels … *You claim that the Word of God tells you to stay away from people like me, and yet Jesus himself says exactly the opposite (see Matthew 5:40-48 + Matthew 7:15-20) … *You very kindly state that “I pray that you will let God lead you, seek the truth in God’s Word!  If you will let him, He will show you”, and I thank you for that well-intended Kindness – and offer you the exact same prayer in return:
Lucy, may the Peace of Christ come to you & yours.  I humbly THANK YOU for the time & energy you have put into this thread …
 

 

P.S.  If you are truly concerned about Satan using me, then you are completely wasting your time (though that misguided sentiment IS appreciated), for there is one thing that Satan fears above all else, and that is people like me who have the humility & the courage to actually LIVE The Way of your own self-professed Lord & Savior!

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