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Top Christian Chat-up lines

Valentine’s Day is rapidly approaching, and I thought about marking that with a few serious articles about relationships and all that banter. But I figured that would be too predictable, and so instead plan on doing something about being single (if it was good enough for Paul…) But before that I thought I’d do what I can to give those of you who have found yourself in the unfortunate position of being single in the run-up to Valentine’s Day a bit of help if you wanted to be able to change your relationship status while roses are still being sold at an extortionate price. And so I present a list of top Christian chat-up lines.

These are all chat-up lines with some sort of Biblical or Christian culture reference, designed to help you show that Christian member of the opposite sex that you’ve had your eye on that not only are you able to deploy a witty chat-up line, but that you are also prepared to make your faith central to all aspects of your life. I have tested some of them out (purely in the interests of research of course…) and got some reasonably positive results back. But don’t take my word for it, try them yourself!

So here for you to use when needed is the All4God list of top Christian chat-up lines:

• Now I know why Solomon had 700 wives… Because he never met you.
• How about you and me do Song of Songs – the remix?
• Every time I read Philippians 4:8 I think of you. Continue reading this →

FAQ:Backsliding

Something that always causes a lot of questions is the issue of backsliding. (Indeed this article is a response to a couple of questions I’ve been asked about it, and so I’ve given it the FAQ title. Over the next few weeks I’ll be doing a few more FAQ articles as part of my ongoing look into the deeper doctrinal beliefs behind All4God.)

I would say what I believe is that once you are truly saved, then you are always saved. In Romans 8:38-39 Paul states that “And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Paul makes it clear that nothing in the world can cut us off from God’s love, and that must therefore mean that we ourselves cannot cut ourselves off it. God has us in His hand, and we cannot jump out. I think that if there is a genuine faith either people won’t turn away, or if they do God will follow after them until they come back to Him. (In the second case the person is essentially on ‘reins’, thinking they can run away wherever they want, but all the time there is still some deep connection between them and God, which one day God will use to rein them back in to His open arms of love.) Continue reading this →

{Only You}

Tired and weary
I come to You
Desperate for change
I look to You
Longing for rest
I cling to You
Eager for answers
I turn to You
Hungry
Exhausted
Dried up
I know You will restore
I know You will sustain
I know You will revive
So I wait
For You

No one can come to the Father except through me

“I am the way, the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.” Jesus in John 14:7. Probably one of the most offensive things Jesus ever said.

Lots of people have different ideas of how they can be saved – by being a good person, by helping out those in need, following a certain religion. And many don’t even believe they need to be saved at all. Which is what makes this comment from Jesus so offensive to so many. Because essentially He is saying that unless you follow Him, no matter what you do, no matter what you believe, it won’t be enough. It won’t save you.

Allah won’t save you.

Buddha can’t save you.

The Book of Mormon won’t get you into heaven.

Door-knocking won’t earn you salvation.

Good karma won’t be enough.

Being a good person won’t save you.

Going to church on Sundays isn’t enough.

The Prophet Mohammed can’t bring you to God.

Only Jesus is Truth. Only Jesus is the way to the Father. Only through what He did on the cross is anyone saved. Continue reading this →

Clubbing – your decision

[A guest post by All4God contributor Josh Duddy]

Clubbing; many of you may have no opinions on this, or see why you should. But I hope the brief train of thought which follows, shows you the importance of your decision making. It has become a thing of the times, and therefore something we must be careful of.

I sat in my room one winter’s night, troubled. I had heard stories of how some of my Christian friends had fallen as a result of going clubbing weekly. Indeed I liked to do it. However, I never considered myself part of that culture; I went only for birthdays and the likes, so I wasn’t out every weekend. I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t want to disagree with it because everybody did it, how could it be wrong? That night, I sat in my room, with my bible open at 1 Peter 4:3

“You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy—their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols”

I was shocked! I never thought the Bible had a thing to say about clubbing! After all it was a new age thing! But alas I could not ignore the obvious. I sat there, with this challenge before me. I had two paths I could go on. I could ignore this verse; pretend I never saw it and go on with my life, unchallenged. Or, I could go on the other path; I could take this challenge head on. I could look further into this topic and see what the truth of the matter was, to see what God really wanted. Thankfully I choose the latter. Continue reading this →

Doctrinal Jenga

Doctrine isn’t a something that I’ve written about explicitly before on All4God. There will have been elements of Christian doctrine that have seeped through in some of the articles, but in general I’ve kept the focus on life application and living out your faith rather than getting bogged down in deep theological discussions over issues like predestination or free will.

But a while back a friend asked me some deep questions about All4God’s position on certain issues, which caused me to have to do some serious reflecting before I could answer them (luckily she asked through a Facebook message so I could take time to reply without looking clueless!) Which got me thinking that maybe I should do an article setting out All4God’s position on certain issues. And then the other day I was reading a chapter from Mark Driscoll’s book ‘Religion saves + nine other misconceptions’ about the Emergent church. In it he made some criticisms of Rob Bell for leaving out some of the more ‘offensive’ parts of Christian faith in his teaching, and not dealing with certain issues. (I’m not going to enter into that debate here, but feel free to read Mark’s book and see what you think). And as I read it I realised that maybe I was guilty of not putting enough emphasis on those topics myself, instead focusing on Christianity mainly as “a moral way of life patterned after Jesus’ example” (Driscoll, pg 230) while in actuality there is more to it than that.

So over the next few weeks I intend on looking at a few different, wider, slightly more theological issues and make sure that they are ignored. Because we can’t just hide from the difficult questions, we need to face up to them, seeking Biblically sound answers. Some of the topics I intend on covering include judgement, hell, sexuality and alcohol (If you have other issues you’d like to see covered please suggest them in the comments!). But first I’m going to take a quick look at the importance of doctrine. Continue reading this →