Here's an email conversation that happened earlier this month between myself and a person identified only as "dalvin02"Jesus Says To Kill Your Family Jun 8, 2008 4:53 PMdavlin02 Re: Matthew 10 : 34 - 37Luke 14 : 26Reply | Forward | Printcbgiles Re: Jesus Says To Kill Your Family Jun 8, 2008 11:06 PMMatthew 10:30-40 (The Message)Forget About Yourself29-31"What's the price of a pet canary? Some loose change, right? And God cares what happens to it even more than you do. He pays even greater attention to you, down to the last detail—even numbering the hairs on your head! So don't be intimidated by all this bully talk. You're worth more than a million canaries.32-33"Stand up for me against world opinion and I'll stand up for you before my Father in heaven. If you turn tail and run, do you think I'll cover for you?34-37"Don't think I've come to make life cozy. I've come to cut—make a sharp knife-cut between son and father, daughter and mother, bride and mother-in-law—cut through these cozy domestic arrangements and free you for God. Well-meaning family members can be your worst enemies. If you prefer father or mother over me, you don't deserve me. If you prefer son or daughter over me, you don't deserve me.38-39"If you don't go all the way with me, through thick and thin, you don't deserve me. If your first concern is to look after yourself, you'll never find yourself. But if you forget about yourself and look to me, you'll find both yourself and me.Luke 14:25-40 (The Message)Figure the Cost25-27One day when large groups of people were walking along with him, Jesus turned and told them, "Anyone who comes to me but refuses to let go of father, mother, spouse, children, brothers, sisters—yes, even one's own self!—can't be my disciple. Anyone who won't shoulder his own cross and follow behind me can't be my disciple.28-30"Is there anyone here who, planning to build a new house, doesn't first sit down and figure the cost so you'll know if you can complete it? If you only get the foundation laid and then run out of money, you're going to look pretty foolish. Everyone passing by will poke fun at you: 'He started something he couldn't finish.'31-32"Or can you imagine a king going into battle against another king without first deciding whether it is possible with his ten thousand troops to face the twenty thousand troops of the other? And if he decides he can't, won't he send an emissary and work out a truce?33"Simply put, if you're not willing to take what is dearest to you, whether plans or people, and kiss it good-bye, you can't be my disciple.34"Salt is excellent. But if the salt goes flat, it's useless, good for nothing."Are you listening to this? Really listening?"Luke 15:1-11 (The Message)The Story of the Lost Sheep1-3By this time a lot of men and women of doubtful reputation were hanging around Jesus, listening intently. The Pharisees and religion scholars were not pleased, not at all pleased. They growled, "He takes in sinners and eats meals with them, treating them like old friends." Their grumbling triggered this story.4-7"Suppose one of you had a hundred sheep and lost one. Wouldn't you leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the lost one until you found it? When found, you can be sure you would put it across your shoulders, rejoicing, and when you got home call in your friends and neighbors, saying, 'Celebrate with me! I've found my lost sheep!' Count on it—there's more joy in heaven over one sinner's rescued life than over ninety-nine good people in no need of rescue.Does that say kill your family?Reply | Forward | Printdavlin02 Re: Jesus Says To Kill Your Family Jun 9, 2008 4:27 AMMatthew 10:34I have come not to send peace, but a sword.That sounds pretty violent to me.Matthew 10:36A man's foes shal be they of his own houshold.Gee, that tells me to hate my own family.So in other words, I have to love Jesus more than my own family? I have to turn my back on my own flesh and blood?SCREW YOU!!!!!!!Reply | Forward | Printcbgiles Re: Jesus Says To Kill Your Family Jun 9, 2008 12:54 PMSo in other words, it doesn't say that Jesus said to kill your family?
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