Failed Christian - Nick Lowe

Written by Henry McCullough. Produced by Neil Brockbank and Nick Lowe. London, England 1997

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• Nick Lowe
• Elvis Costello
• Johnny Cash
• Ian Dury

[EdOfTheNorth]

Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Pharisee the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: God I thank you that I am not like other men - robbers, evildoers, adulterers or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get. But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even look up to heaven but beat his breast and said, "God have mercy on me a sinner. This man rather than the first went home justified before God.

[MasterYAHU]

He’s declaring his disdain for organized religion. Not failure in the area of faith. What makes a believer redeemed? Does it have anything to do with smoking, lying and cursing? Selah (think about it!)

[revpgesq]

if you're living, you've not failed. failing maybe?

if the sermons and so on never got to you, maybe you are a pre-Christian, not a failed one.

since there is nothing to accomplish in becoming a Christian, how might one fail?

Or, are you just looking to tear the rear-view mirror as well out of your cracked windshieldmobile, and thereby escape all responsibility for your choice - then, now and later?

suppressing the Only Hope does not freedom make, but despair.

C'mon. Get Happy. ' t ' = :-)

[Annette0077]

thanks for uploading this. so true for a lot of us.