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We must make still greater progress from ONE BREAD, ONE BODY
We must make still greater progress
Paul told the Thessalonian Christians: "You must learn to make
still greater progress" (1 Thessalonians 4:1). Paul was referring to
progress in sexual purity.
- When Christians routinely look lustfully at others on
TV, on-line, or in person, we must make still greater progress.
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When many Catholics disagree with Pope Paul VI's
encyclical Humanae Vitae without ever having read or understood it, we must
make still greater progress.
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When the Church's biblical teachings condemning
homosexual acts as sinful and degrading are arrogantly dismissed, we have to
make greater progress.
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When lay single people don't know they have the
preferred calling of renouncing sex for the sake of God's kingdom, we must make
greater progress.
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When most Christians don't know that "the
pill" is not only a contraceptive but sometimes an abortifacient, we have
to make more progress.
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When people are ignorant of how tubal ligations and
vasectomies seriously disrupt the ecological order of their bodies, spirits,
and relationships, we must make greater progress.
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When our stand against abortion is weakened because of
our disunity, refusal to submit to authority, and self-centered apathy, we must
make still greater progress.
"God has not called us to immorality but to holiness; hence,
whoever rejects these instructions rejects, not man, but God Who sends His Holy
Spirit upon you" (1 Thessalonians 4:7-8).