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If you send this blog to 10 of your friends…

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I don’t know how many times just this week that I have gotten one of those chain letter-type emails with the above phrase in it. You know the kind… the one’s that end with a phrase along the lines of “if you don’t forward this, you are ashamed of Jesus.” Or sometimes they quote scripture and say “If you deny me, I will deny you before the Father. (Matthew 10:33).”  And my personal favorite: “If you forward this to 10 of your friends, you will receive a blessing from God.”

Now, I’m not a big fan of chain letters/emails. I don’t think that I have to forward one on to my friends to be blessed, and I if I don’t forward one I don’t believe that I am ashamed of Jesus.

I’m sure many of you have gotten these emails, and half wondered what to do. But not forwarding one to your friends is not denying Christ. Denying Christ’s existence, his death and resurrection, that’s denying Christ.

God doesn’t base His love for us on whether we respond to emails or chain letters. He looks into our hearts. He knows our hearts, our desires, our true feelings. He knows our beliefs, and He doesn’t need us to send out a mass email to our friends to confirm our love for Him.

So the next time one of these emails crosses your computer screen, forward it if you like, delete it if you choose to. But rest assured, you pathway to heaven isn’t dependent on your response to it!


Posted in General on June 26th, 2009

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