ShortyDooWhop
Well-Known Member
I read the following on my Quickverse daily devotional for November22, and I think it's kindo of fitting:
When I think about clubbing, some times I enjoy it, but I think it's the spirit that accompanies the action. Sin creaps in when your motivation is impure. If you're dressing and thinking you want to wear something short to entice a man, and you go to the club and dance and conduct yourself in such a manner that you encourage a man to lust after you, then I think it's a problem. Conversely, if you're going to just dance and have fun and work off/sweat off a couple of pounds and are just enjoying the experience for the fun of it, I don't know if it's necessarily a sin.
I think again, it's the spirit of the thing. There's no point telling someone don't go to a club and you're sitting at home watching porn or doing other things you shouldn't do yourself...
Evening
“The power of his resurrection.”
- Philippians 3:10
The doctrine of a risen Saviour is exceedingly precious. The resurrection is the corner-stone of the entire building of Christianity. It is the key-stone of the arch of our salvation. It would take a volume to set forth all the streams of living water which flow from this one sacred source, the resurrection of our dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; but to know that he has risen, and to have fellowship with him as such-communing with the risen Saviour by possessing a risen life-seeing him leave the tomb by leaving the tomb of worldliness ourselves, this is even still more precious. The doctrine is the basis of the experience, but as the flower is more lovely than the root, so is the experience of fellowship with the risen Saviour more lovely than the doctrine itself. I would have you believe that Christ rose from the dead so as to sing of it, and derive all the consolation which it is possible for you to extract from this well-ascertained and well-witnessed fact; but I beseech you, rest not contented even there. Though you cannot, like the disciples, see him visibly, yet I bid you aspire to see Christ Jesus by the eye of faith; and though, like Mary Magdalene, you may not “touch” him, yet may you be privileged to converse with him, and to know that he is risen, you yourselves being risen in him to newness of life. To know a crucified Saviour as having crucified all my sins, is a high degree of knowledge; but to know a risen Saviour as having justified me, and to realize that he has bestowed upon me new life, having given me to be a new creature through his own newness of life, this is a noble style of experience: short of it, none ought to rest satisfied. May you both “know him, and the power of his resurrection.” Why should souls who are quickened with Jesus, wear the grave-clothes of worldliness and unbelief? Rise, for the Lord is risen.
“The power of his resurrection.”
- Philippians 3:10
The doctrine of a risen Saviour is exceedingly precious. The resurrection is the corner-stone of the entire building of Christianity. It is the key-stone of the arch of our salvation. It would take a volume to set forth all the streams of living water which flow from this one sacred source, the resurrection of our dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; but to know that he has risen, and to have fellowship with him as such-communing with the risen Saviour by possessing a risen life-seeing him leave the tomb by leaving the tomb of worldliness ourselves, this is even still more precious. The doctrine is the basis of the experience, but as the flower is more lovely than the root, so is the experience of fellowship with the risen Saviour more lovely than the doctrine itself. I would have you believe that Christ rose from the dead so as to sing of it, and derive all the consolation which it is possible for you to extract from this well-ascertained and well-witnessed fact; but I beseech you, rest not contented even there. Though you cannot, like the disciples, see him visibly, yet I bid you aspire to see Christ Jesus by the eye of faith; and though, like Mary Magdalene, you may not “touch” him, yet may you be privileged to converse with him, and to know that he is risen, you yourselves being risen in him to newness of life. To know a crucified Saviour as having crucified all my sins, is a high degree of knowledge; but to know a risen Saviour as having justified me, and to realize that he has bestowed upon me new life, having given me to be a new creature through his own newness of life, this is a noble style of experience: short of it, none ought to rest satisfied. May you both “know him, and the power of his resurrection.” Why should souls who are quickened with Jesus, wear the grave-clothes of worldliness and unbelief? Rise, for the Lord is risen.
When I think about clubbing, some times I enjoy it, but I think it's the spirit that accompanies the action. Sin creaps in when your motivation is impure. If you're dressing and thinking you want to wear something short to entice a man, and you go to the club and dance and conduct yourself in such a manner that you encourage a man to lust after you, then I think it's a problem. Conversely, if you're going to just dance and have fun and work off/sweat off a couple of pounds and are just enjoying the experience for the fun of it, I don't know if it's necessarily a sin.
I think again, it's the spirit of the thing. There's no point telling someone don't go to a club and you're sitting at home watching porn or doing other things you shouldn't do yourself...
