I'm trying to discern fact from fable.
But these brothers going at it like Cain & Abel.
Wild horses straight out the stable.
How'd this get so hostile?
Can't I just learn the gospel?
Is it all about me and a spiritual gift?
Did Christ die so we could create such a rift?
Off I drift...daydreams about edification.
Myself...the church body...maybe even the nation.
I'll suffer fools gladly (no doubt or frustration).
Without hesitation...if I could only commit.
The price we pay is what we're willing to get.
Has my soul been sold and are you willing to bet?
The price was paid that's why I'm casting the net.
“But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places; And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.”
— Philippians 1:12-18 (KJV)
“Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.”
2 Corinthians 13:10 (KJV)
“For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.”
— 2 Corinthians 11:19 (KJV)
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
— 1 Corinthians 6:20 (KJV)
“And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
— Matthew 4:19 (KJV)