Comments on: Gut Check #7 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/08/gut-check-7.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Tue, 22 May 2012 03:53:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: daveordavehttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/08/gut-check-7.html#comment-4859 daveordave Sun, 06 Aug 2006 22:50:55 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/08/gut-check-7.html#comment-4859 Hello. Thank you so much for writing this. I used to read some of your posts on the Ooze. I was quite a theological liberal back then. However, I have since realized that I can not shape God into what I want him to be, and I continually, and often failingly, seek to learn how to be truly obedient to God's will. Thus, I thought I would check out your blog as you always seemed pretty theologically solid. Your post could not have come at a better time. I read this immediately after posting in my own blog-- daveordave.blogspot.com. If you have the time to read my last post, you'll see why your post was so relevant to me. I think I'm going to become a regular reader of your blog. Thanks again. Hello. Thank you so much for writing this. I used to read some of your posts on the Ooze. I was quite a theological liberal back then. However, I have since realized that I can not shape God into what I want him to be, and I continually, and often failingly, seek to learn how to be truly obedient to God’s will. Thus, I thought I would check out your blog as you always seemed pretty theologically solid. Your post could not have come at a better time. I read this immediately after posting in my own blog– daveordave.blogspot.com. If you have the time to read my last post, you’ll see why your post was so relevant to me. I think I’m going to become a regular reader of your blog. Thanks again.

]]> By: Troyhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/08/gut-check-7.html#comment-4818 Troy Thu, 03 Aug 2006 21:25:57 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/08/gut-check-7.html#comment-4818 I was struggling with something similar this morning; not doubting my salvation, but realizing, in a way that grieved me, that God was not first in my life. I read Christian blogs and listen to sermons on the radio, pray my cursory prayers, but don't truly seek Him, yearn for Him, immerse myself in His word. And as a result, it hit me I am doing poorly in my walk, in my role as spiritual leader of my family, in knowing and being in His will. But then, it is the people that grieve over their lack of growth and spiritual discipline that end up growing, as their grieving spurs them on. Great site and great series, Dan. I was struggling with something similar this morning; not doubting my salvation, but realizing, in a way that grieved me, that God was not first in my life. I read Christian blogs and listen to sermons on the radio, pray my cursory prayers, but don’t truly seek Him, yearn for Him, immerse myself in His word. And as a result, it hit me I am doing poorly in my walk, in my role as spiritual leader of my family, in knowing and being in His will.

But then, it is the people that grieve over their lack of growth and spiritual discipline that end up growing, as their grieving spurs them on.

Great site and great series, Dan.

]]> By: Dan McGowanhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/08/gut-check-7.html#comment-4817 Dan McGowan Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:00:45 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/08/gut-check-7.html#comment-4817 The question poses as it is in the gut check preamble seems to infer that if you have on-going areas of stuggle, you might be prone to wondering if you are truly saved - in other words, if you ARE truly saved then you won't have those on-going troubles. If that is the question being posed, I suppose it's a good one to pose and to attempt to research and answer... but the bottom line is that we are either "saved' or we're not. A person can be "saved" and still deal with issues of sin - since we all do that. A person can be "saved" and not have all areas of their life under control yet. In fact, we are always in process, aren't we? My answer to the question is this - I am absolutely, truly, 100% saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. End of story. As a saved individual, sometimes I am dead on target - other times I stumble and sin. But I am never "un-saved" and I never question my eternal salvation. And I pray others do not as well. The question poses as it is in the gut check preamble seems to infer that if you have on-going areas of stuggle, you might be prone to wondering if you are truly saved – in other words, if you ARE truly saved then you won’t have those on-going troubles. If that is the question being posed, I suppose it’s a good one to pose and to attempt to research and answer… but the bottom line is that we are either “saved’ or we’re not. A person can be “saved” and still deal with issues of sin – since we all do that. A person can be “saved” and not have all areas of their life under control yet. In fact, we are always in process, aren’t we?

My answer to the question is this – I am absolutely, truly, 100% saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. End of story. As a saved individual, sometimes I am dead on target – other times I stumble and sin. But I am never “un-saved” and I never question my eternal salvation. And I pray others do not as well.

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