The Stone that the Builders Rejected

Has become the cornerstone.

Published on December 30, 2004 By Death_By_Beebles In Religion

Halleluiah.

Ever wonder about the people you reject? That girl in the cubicle across the hall. Your boss? People you thought you loved, people that hate you and everything you stand for. Single teenaged mothers, those orphans on 31st Street.

Those people, just like all people, have been invited to stand on a mighty cornerstone. They have been given the opportunity to become a part of that cornerstone.

It's no hidden fact that I am a Christian. I believe openly that God sent his only son, Jesus Christ, to die on a cross to forgive me of my sins. I have never hid my faith. Every time I hear something on the news saying something about how a teacher isn't allowed to teach history because there is Christianity in it, I feel embittered. I feel like other people are going at the foundation, the cornerstone of my faith with sledge hammers and shovels, trying so desperately to break it up, scatter it to a million directions, make it so that the foundation will never be built up again.

And still we turn the other cheek. How much more can the church take? The Anti-Faith of others is trying to kill my faith. I'm sorry that Atheists don't like the fact that God is mentioned in the Declaration of Independance. I'm sorry that my faith intrudes on your lifestyle so much that you want to cast out every Christian to be given up to the lions.

I have faith. I don't care what faith you are, wether your faith be Buddhism, Taoism, or Islam. I'm not assaulting your faith, and I hope you will stand with me and say that the faiths of other people should be respected equally.

I'm tired of listening to the news while people try to destroy my religion. I'm tired of looking the other way. I'm tired of watching people being descriminated against for their faith.

I take a stand for my faith. Who will do the same with me?

Beebes

Comments

NotSoSmellySarah

on Dec 30, 2004

Ooh! I will!!!!!

Death_By_Beebles

on Dec 31, 2004

Thats two of us. Who else will stand up for their faith?

Beebes

Zoologist03

on Dec 31, 2004

Hell, I'll stand up for my faith....though, I'm not much of a religious guy, I still have basic Christian beliefs and values.....so, I shall stand with you, Alex.

~Zoo

Death_By_Beebles

on Jan 01, 2005

Shaun, we need to find you a church.

Thank you.

Beebes

Zoologist03

on Jan 01, 2005

Shaun, we need to find you a church

Eh, I do my own thing...remember, I'm a reverend now

~Zoo

preacherman

on Jan 01, 2005

count me in- DBB

Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

God Bless Death By Beebles

preacherman

scatter629

on Jan 01, 2005

"faiths of other people should be respected equally"

"I'm tired of watching people being descriminated against for their faith."

You know , many of the pigrims who first came to this land, did so to escape church persecution. They were of different faiths, and were exasperated that the established Church in Europe, which had a lot of influence in the State, used State power to drive them away. This was considered by our founding fathers and to protect them, enshrined the separation of the Church and the State in the US constitution.

preacherman

on Jan 01, 2005

enshrined the separation of the Church and the State in the US constitution.

Actually the phrase "Separation of the Church and the State" is not even in the constitution. The phrase comes from a letter that Thomas Jefferson made in a letter as he responded to the Danbury Baptist. If you would like you can read a copy of that letter at the following Link

After reading I think any intellegent reader would understand what Jefferson meant in using the phrase. I don't think it is what we are seeing splashed against the Anti-Christian movement in America today.

God Bless
preacherman

NotSoSmellySarah

on Jan 01, 2005

Hey can you find me one too why youre at it?

Shulamite

on Jan 03, 2005

Whenever any person asks a spiritual question of a Christian, it is only because the Holy Spirit leads them to do it. When a student of mine asks a spiritual question, in class or whenever, I am bound by a law higher than man's to stop what I am doing and answer the question if the question is directed to me and is asking my opinion. I get these a lot. My kids know what I stand for, what I believe. Not surprising I get the questions a lot then. It is often surprising who does the asking at times. Kids you'd not suspect. I don't use emotional pleas with them or any of that other stuff... just the facts.

I'm supposed to tell what He did. I do. It's as plain as that.

Death_By_Beebles

on Jan 03, 2005

Thank you all for you courage and insight.

Beebes

discombobulated chick

on Jan 10, 2005

that is awsome and i totally agree !! just last night we talked about that at youth group ! and iam willing to take a stand that is why i have started a prayer bible study thing at SCHOOL it is the first mon. of every mounth !!! any one is welcome !!

oleteach

on Jan 11, 2005

Good for you. I pray that there are many more people like you out there that have these values and wise insights.

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