Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!agate!shelby!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jeff@oak.circa.ufl.edu (Jeff Halley) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Thorn in the flesh Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 90 05:18:12 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Center for Instructional and Research Computing Activities Lines: 12 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu RE: >More importantly, it is God's will that we are obediant to Him. Stuart, that is so true. Only through complete obedience to Him (putting Christ on the throne) can we ever have His best for our lives. True submission involves giving Him _everything_ -- loving the Lord with all of our hearts, minds... and that's hard to grasp for a lot of "prosperity" theologians (In his two books _The_Seduction_of_Christianity_ and _Beyond_Seduction_, Dave Hunt addresses some interesting points of contemporary or pop theology). In Christ, Jeff