> -----Original Message-----
> From: john-thomas richards [mailto:jtrspam@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 April 2008 10:34 PM
> To: soundofgrace@...
> Subject: Re: [soundofgrace] Baptism Celebration


> The real concern here is that you think it is possible to fulfill one's
> duty to God apart from a heart overflowing in love (based on your
> statements, "The point you were trying to make was that duty could be
> joyous and maybe should be. I simply pointed out that that was not
> necessarily the case. We can do things out of duty without throwing a
> party in doing it..").  Obedience that does not stem from love for God
> is not obedience.
> --

And that is why some people walk out on marriages.... because they do not
feel 'in love' anymore. It is the same sort of attitude. I need to conjure
up the feeling and if I cannot conjure up the feeling then I need not do it.

Jeff