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:: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 ::

Free will or predestination?
Reading David Heddle's post today about free will reminded me of a story I once heard on a Christian religious broadcast. For his a vignette to introduce the questions of free will and predestination, Chuck Swindoll told a story about a man who missed church services one Sunday -- a Sunday when the congregation just so happened to split over the issue of free will versus predestination. The group who believed in free will left and started a church of their own, while the predestination group stayed at the current house of worship. When the clueless guy who missed a service showed up for churcn the next Sunday, he was asked by the predestinators, "What are you doing here?"

"I'm here of my own free will," he replied.

"Well, you can't join us if you believe in that free will stuff," he was told. "Go join that free will church down the street."

So he went down the street where he found some members of the old congregation who clinged staunchly to the doctrine of free will. "What are you doing here?" they asked him.

"I was sent here," he replied.

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That story has nothing to do with Heddle's post; Heddle's post just made me think of it. For some reason.

:: Andrew 16:15 + ::
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