Monks vs Missionaries

What monks are:

A man who has withdrawn from the world  for religious reasons, especially as a member of an order of cenobites living according to a particular rule and under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. 

How monks function:

CLOISTER:  to seclude or shut up in or as if in a convent or monastery. "the monastery was where the Brothers would cloister themselves to meditate"

What missionaries are: 

A person sent (into the world) on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country. evangelist, apostle proselytizer, preacher, minister, priest.

How missionaries function:

EVANGELIZE:  to tell people about Christianity in order to persuade them to become Christians

Brothers! Monks are not Missionaries and Missionaries are not monks. To blur the lines is to fail to grasp the calling of each. In particular, Missions of Orthodox parishes are to be outward in evangelical efforts to reach people for Christ and bring people into the church. They are not to cloister and just pray. Monks do that. Pray yes, always and without ceasing, but cloister with just family members and a few faithful?--No!

He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

A Message to Heretic Hunters

It is a wise thing to expose a heresy...

It is a fearful thing to expose a heretic who isn't.

"...that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me."

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

By their fruit you will know them...

When Muslims Attack

...Why the nations of the world must FIGHT Islam.

...And... Why the United States of America MUST make Donald J. Trump the next president.

What To Do With Aborted Baby Bodies: "Have a bonfire" "The garbage disposal was an option."

"Nobody wants to talk about dead bodies, nobody but me. There was a point when Stericycle fired us that I had five months worth of fetal tissue in my freezers and we were renting freezers to put them in. So, all I thought about, I was so consumed with fetal tissue, I was ready to drive to upper Michigan and have a bonfire. And, I was just trying to figure out, you know, how I wouldn’t get stopped or how far in the woods would I have to go to have this fire that nobody was going to see me.

And the garbage disposal was an option, I mean, there was a point that I actually hired someone from another clinic to come in and take 20 bottles and put it into my garbage disposal."

Pro-life group Students for Life of America compiled footage from the NAF conference that was filmed undercover by Center for Medical Progress (CMP), the group that produced the Planned Parenthood videos. The video [below] deals directly with the abortionist “problem” of what to do with fetal remains.

See full Breitbart article here: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/30/abortion-provider-fetal-remains-put-gift-bag/

Bethlehem... The "believed" birthplace of Jesus

To the producers and writers of NBC's Nightly news who referred to: "Bethlehem. The 'believed' birthplace of Jesus." HE IS KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS and none of your PC revisionist history will change the historic facts..this gift is for you:

By the way... the believed NBC network was believed to be founded in, believe it or not, 1926. Muhammad, "believed" to be born in Mecca. Barry Soetoro, aka Barack Hussein Obama, "believed" to be born in Kenya.

Islam, Islamists & Islamic Terrorism: What Every Orthodox Christian Needs to Know!

http://orthodoxarchdiocese.ca/islam-islamists-islamic-terrorism-orthodox-christian-know/

Dear President Obama aka Barry Soetoro,

If there was any doubt before, that you are not a Christian, you have erased all doubt with the recent statement:

“And for me, and I’m sure for some of you, it’s also a chance to remember the tremendous sacrifice that led up to that day, and all that Christ endured--not just as a Son of God, but as a human being.”

Christians believe:

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.”

Therefore, you are NOT a Christian.

Jesus said of himself:

"... I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

So you see, Mr President. There is no other salvation for mankind other than through Jesus, THE Christ, therefore, there is no other true  "religion" other than Christianity. Jesus was, is and shall ever be the only SON OF GOD. Muhammad was a false prophet. Islam is the great satan.

Dorothy Verneal Coffield

Please remember in your prayers the soul of Dorothy Verneal Coffield who died today at the age of 87. Dorothy was the mother of Xanthia Lewis, wife of JTO author Nathan Lee Lewis.

LOVE- The Original Litmus Test

WHAT I AM IF I DON'T LOVE

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

WHAT LOVE IS AND ISN'T - DOES AND DOESN'T

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

LOVE IS THE GREATEST GIFT

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

WHO ARE WE TO LOVE?

Love your enemy,

Love your neighbor,

Love each other,

Love your wife,

Love the Lord...
Love the heretic..
Love the demon filled...

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved...

On Fame, Riches, And Fearing Powerful People

Listen, everyone! High and low, rich and poor, all around the world—listen to my words, for they are wise and filled with insight.

I will tell in song accompanied by harps the answer to one of life’s most perplexing problems:

There is no need to fear when times of trouble come, even though surrounded by enemies!  They trust in their wealth and boast about how rich they are, yet not one of them, though rich as kings, can ransom his own brother from the penalty of sin! For God’s forgiveness does not come that way. For a soul is far too precious to be ransomed by mere earthly wealth. There is not enough of it in all the earth to buy eternal life for just one soul, to keep it out of hell.

Rich man! Proud man! Wise man! You must die like all the rest! You have no greater lease on life than foolish, stupid men. You must leave your wealth to others. You name your estates after yourselves as though your lands could be forever yours and you could live on them eternally. But man with all his pomp must die like any animal. Such is the folly of these men, though after they die they will be quoted as having great wisdom.

Death is the shepherd of all mankind. And “in the morning” those who are evil will be the slaves of those who are good. For the power of their wealth is gone when they die; they cannot take it with them.

But as for me, God will redeem my soul from the power of death, for he will receive me. So do not be dismayed when evil men grow rich and build their lovely homes. For when they die, they carry nothing with them! Their honors will not follow them. Though a man calls himself happy all through his life—and the world loudly applauds success— yet in the end he dies like everyone else and enters eternal darkness. 

For man with all his pomp must die like any animal. Psalm 49