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"I LOVE YOU WITH THE LOVE OF THE LORD!" ???

 "I LOVE YOU WITH THE LOVE OF THE LORD!" ???

Q - Naanakan po ako at ibinahay naman ng BF ko long ago though we remained unmarried for many reasons. Then, nag-join po kami sa isang born again church at nagkaron ng ministries which we both loved doing. Lately, biglang may nagkalat ng balita sa kapatiran na hindi kami kasal ---at agad-agad kaming ipinatawag ng elders, inisbestiga, at nang ipagtapat naming di nga kami kasal, bigla kaming inalis sa ministry at pinulpito. Inutos po sa aming pakasal agad-agad at lagi kaming sinisita kung pakakasal na kami. KASO po, hindi pa talaga kami sure kung pakakasal---sobrang daming seemingly irreconcilable differences na malamang ay maghiwalay lang kami kahit pakasal pa. Lalu lang maco-complicate.

Meanwhile, nanlamig po ang pakikitungo sa amin ng lahat sa church; para po kaming may virus. Tinanggal kami sa mga chat groups at online Bible studies.

Pag dumadalo kami sa services, walang kumakausap sa amin. Si partner ko po, tumigil nang dumalo: nainis, nagalit, nalungkot. Ako naman, trying hard na dumalo pa rin, pero nagiging stressor na po sa akin ang pagdalo. I don't feel welcome, lalu na sa traditonal welcome singing namin na may "I love you with the love of the Lord..." WALA PONG KUMAKAMAY SA AKIN. At sa sermon po ay lagi akong pinariringan, pinatatamaan at habang binabaril ako from the pulpit at tinginan at lingunan sa akin ang madla na ang mga mukha nila ay parang electric fans na sabay-sabay humaharap sa akin with matching matataim na irap. Nakakabaliw po Tito. Torture chamber ang church!

What to do po, Tito?

A -

1. Pakasal to the Church's satisfaction?

Bahala nang lalu pang magkabuhul-

buhul ang lahat later?

OR

2. Wag pa rin pakasal pero patuloy dumalo sa church to everyone's horror and discomfort ---and your agony?

OR

3. Wag pa rin pakasal at wag na munang dumalo sa church na yan para makapahinga at matahimik muna kayong lahat? Ayusin nyo munang mag-partner ang samahan/dynamics nyo para mapagpasiyahan kung ano ang magandang gawin in short and long terms? DISTANCE MUNA SA LOVING KAPATIRAN?

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JESUSNESS TO GUILTLESSNESS

People are tormented by many “inner demons.” Maraming mga pagdurusa at paghihirap ng loob ang mga tao na para bang ang kanilang kalooban ay lagi na lang ginugulo ng mga "masasamang espiritu". One such cruel “inner demon” is guilt or the accusation of guilt. Maraming nabubuhay na may bigat at sikip ng loob dahil sila’y inuusig ng sariling budhi ---dahil sila ay binabagabag ng tinatawag na guilt. Satan, who Revelation 12:10 calls “the accuser” stops at nothing to accuse us. Wala siyang ginawa kundi usigin, pasamain ang loob, takutin ng mga parusa, at laging pahirapan ang loob ng mga tao dahil sa mga pagkakamaling nagawa. Guilt bothers, disturbs, vexes, troubles and agitates people. It causes grave and untold misery and sufferings. Gaano karaming pagdurusa at hirap ng loob at iba pang serious complications ang dinaranas natin dahil diyan ---dahil sa mga nagawa natin noon na hanggang ngayon ay hindi pa natin naipapatawad at patuloy pang isinisisi sa sarili? Ano ang kinalaman ni Jesus at ang kanyang ministeryong JESUSNESS sa kalagayan nating ito?

What is the relationship between people and guilt? People are conditioned by culture to be and to feel guilty. The religious, social and even legal culture of civilizations condition people to feel bad about themselves. Very especially, the religious. Mapapansing mas relihiyoso ang tao, mas laging maraming guilt, mas maraming pag-uusig, mas maraming dinaramdam. And pointedly, the so-called “people of the book” like Jews and Christians ay ganyan ---people who live verse-by-verse in the Scriptures of their tradition. Such people might as well be called, “people BY the book”: living by the book, by words, by legality, by technicalilty. Paano ka ba naman hindi mapupuno ng guilt, e nandiyan ang Ten Commandments na bawat isa ay kay hirap-hirap sundin? Meron pang 613 mitzvots na dinevelop ang Israel. Idagdag pa dito ang numberless and ominipresent doctrines developed out of the Ten Commandtments and 613 mitzvots. What about the additional traditions, regulations, policies, disciplinary rules of congregations developed post-Jesus, in the lasr two millenia? Napakabigat na dalahin ng mga relihiyosong tao ang sangkaterbang bawal na napakahirap naman, if not really impossible sundin. At kung nasusunod man ay paminsan-minsan lang dahil mahirap naman talagang sundin all the time.

Kaya ang pinakamadalas na tanong ng mga tao, “Bakit ganon, nagsisimba naman ako, pero hindi pa rin ako nagbabago? Bakit nagbalik-loob na ako pero meron pa akong ganitong ugali at bisyo? Bakit kahit nagbabasa na ako ng Bible, magagalitin pa rin ako?” Ang daming guilt. Many people even feel guilty for not feeling guilty. Merong gagawa ng isang bagay na sa tingin nila ay mali, tapos sasabihin nila, “I feel guilty for having done something wrong.” Meron namang, “Bakit kahit alam kong may ginawa akong mali, hindi ako nagi-guilty? Nakaka-guilty namang hindi ako nagi-guilty.” Laging may guilt na nasa loob ang mga tao. Tama ba ito o mali? Tama bang ma-guilty o hindi?

AT ANO NAMAN ANG KILALAMAN DITO NI JESUS ---NG JESUNESS?

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Mark 6:30-31

 Q – Tama po ba for church to require members to convert and recruit new members in ever-increasing numbers to the point of pagod/exhaustion?

At talaga pong inire-report, binibilang at chine-check, to the point na sobrang nakaka-pressure at wala nang joy?

A - Let’s see what Jesus and his disciples did along that matter:

Mark 6:30-31

The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”

• The apostles were not required to report.

Out of joy, they volunteered to share their experiences.

• Walang bilangan ng converts.

• The sharing focused on WHAT they had

1. DONE (most probably healing, feeding, comforting, counseling, even raising some dead?).

2. TAUGHT the people: Message /Content /Lesson

The disciples GAVE to the people, not TAKE from them; they benefited their hearers, not themselves.

• So many people were coming and going. Sila ang pumupunta nang kusa kasi nakikinabang sila, hindi pinakikinabangan.

• Sobrang naging busy, napagod at nagutom ang disciples.

Hindi sila lalung pinagod ni Jesus; PINATIGIL sila sa “ministry”, inilayo sa field work, niyaya at pinangunahang

pumunta sa tahimik at relaxing/relaxed place to eat and rest.

Pinaiwan ni Jesus ang mga tao.

(Note: “Come with me by yourselves---KAYO LANG ---and get some rest.

Hindi (lang) sa converts/numbers focused si Jesus: Focused sya sa wellbeing ng workers, especially sa kanilang pagkain at pahinga.

THIS IS JESUS. THIS IS JESUSNESS.

Meanwhile, may teaching/comment si Jesus on this similar matter of recruiting converts:

Matthew 23:15-16 NIV

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites (WITH YOUR MOTIVES)! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.

• The work/What is DONE TO and TAUGHT the convert turn

him/her become like the missionary:

“a child of hell”---only twice as much!

Jesus calls the Pharisee a child of hell, which could mean

1. Suffering as if in hell. Victim of hell.

2. Promoter and recruiter to hell /hell-like physical, mental, emotional and spiritual condition.

3. Guilty at nagpapa-guilty.

4. Judgmental and teaching converts to be judgmental, too.

5. Hirap at nagpapahirap sa convert.

Pagod at pumapagod.

In all these, nagiging “twice as much a child of hell” ang recruits: napapahamak ---kasi matapos ma-recruit ay gagawin

ding recruiter/recruitment machine.

Ang “mission” ng Pharisee ay hindi para pakinabangIN ang recruit kundi para pakinabangAN.

SURIIN, URIIN ANG

- MISSION.

- GAWA AT ANG MESSAGE.

TEST FOR AND AVOID PHARISEENESS.

GO FOR JESUSNESS.

Matthew 10:34-36

 Q - Bakit po kung sino pa ang "brother/sister" sa church, kung sino pa ang dating kasama at kaisa sa faith, sya pa ang later ay kokontra, hihiwalay at maninira? Yung matapos kang I- unfriend, iba-bash ka pa, sisiraan ka ng bonggang-bongga sa church at sa mga common friends niyo, hahanap ng kakampi sa personal war nya against you… sasabihing naging kulto ka na—-at etc etc…

A - JESUS ALREADY SAID THAT WOULD HAPPEN. When Jesus teaches love and grace, those who are slaves and promoters of the Law and Judgement will oppose Jesus. THOSE WHO ARE BLINDLY INTO PHARISEENESS WILL OPPOSE AND MALIGN THOSE WHO ARE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS /JESUSNESS and those who teach God's Love and Grace. ......................... Matthew 10:34-36

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace. I came to bring trouble. I have come to make this happen:

‘A son will turn against his father.

A daughter will turn against her mother.

A daughter-in-law will turn against her mother-in-law.

Even members of your own family will be your enemies.’ ----JESUSNESS WILL BE A CLARIFICATORY TEACHING; IT WILL ESTABLISH THE DIVISION BETWEEN LAW AND GRACE, LOVE AND JUDGMENT, PHARISEENESS AND JESUSNESS. JESUSNESS IS ALSO A SURGICAL TEACHING: IT WILL SEPARATE GANGRENOUS LAW FROM RESTORATIVE GRACE. IT WILL ALSO UNMASK AND EXPOSE THE ENEMIES OF JESUS ---THE WOLVES AMONG SHEEP. More close to home: it will unmask long-time false friends.

 Q - Sa observation nyo po, what is real about romantic love?

A - You want what I have observed to be REAL about romantic love?

1. Na seasonal ito. Bihira na forever. Yung mga mukhang"forever", madalas ay nagpapatuloy lang dahil may nagtitiis, nagpapasensya, nagpapatawad, nakikipaglaban para sa pagtutuloy ng relasyon for other considerations.

2. Na kahit mahal ka, puedeng ma-attract sa iba.

3. Na maraming cheating and infidelity na nangyayari at various levels: sa isip, sa salita o sa gawa.

4. Na ang umaaasa na magkakaron ng perfect relationship undisturbed by unfaithfulness could be mostly dreaming at hindi realistic.

5. You could fall out of love the way you fall in love.

Yan ang reality pamangkin, sa observation ko---ke religious o hindi ang tao. Pareho lang. Nababawasan lang minsan ang pagtataksil kung religious. O mas elaborate ang pagtatago . Pero napaka puede pa ring mangyari. At nangyayari kahit sa church people.

So, kung mai-in love, maghandang masaktan, mapagtaksilan o mag-fall out of love.

Be realistic.

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sobrang fanatic sa pag-apply ng Bible verses

 Q - Yung pinsan ko pong sobrang fanatic sa pag-apply ng Bible verses, naninira ng mga religious images kahit hindi po nya pag-aari. Utos daw ng Diyos kay Gideon na sirain ang mga rebulto sa Isareal noon?!

A –

1. Si Gideon ba ang pinsan mo?

2. Ancient Israel ba ang present-day Philippines?

3. Ang batas at gobyerno ba ng sinaunang bayan ng Israel ay pareho sa batas at gobyerno ng bayang Pilipinas ngayon?

4. Kinausap din ba personally ng Diyos ang pinsan mo na manira ng mga bagay na hindi kanya?

SO BAKIT GINAGAYA NG PINSAN MO SI GIDEON?

Malaki ang problem pag basta-basta na lang huhugot ng verse mula sa ancient scriptures na sinulat ng ibang lahi para sa lahi nila ---para sa panahon nila at sa sitwasyon / context nila --- tapos makikibasa ka ngayon at bigla mong pilit ia-apply ito sa lahi mo ngayon ---maski sa mga taong hindi mo katulad ang paniniwala --- na nasa ibang lugar at panahon, at nasa ilalim ng ibang gobyerno at mga batas,

One’s personal religious conviction cannot and must not be imposed on other citizens who have their rights and whose private properties are protected by law and respected by common courtesy.