Posted on 10/20/2019 6:33:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
In reality, that is all that matters.
All true except the last one. The churches will have to be fixed before they are capable of helping anyone else.
In the dark days of treating the mentally ill, the solution was to lock people up and keep them away from sharp objects. Now we try to understand and treat the underlying causes. Societal violence needs the same approach or it will never be resolved.
Yeah, these are truths that people struggle to proclaim in mixed company. But there is another truth that is even tougher to say- diversity is weakness.
It will ultimately lead to dissolution. Diversity is a synonym for disunion. Culture, language, and borders are the definition of a nation. People who preach “civic nationalism” ignore history.
Yes, you are right. At least half the churches in America actually promote sin. Go in the church and ask a few youngsters what “living in sin” means. They have no clue.
Wrong. This is where we are going... at light speed now.
https://iotwreport.com/ocasio-cortez-we-need-a-multigendered-multigeographic-united-states/
Just because Tab P fits in Slot R’, doesn’t mean it belongs there.
The world is full of mis-wired humans. Failure to embrace that is the source of most of mankind’s ills. There are more than few mis-wired persons at/in church.
“ Rest. Don’t we all long for it? It is found in a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Peace with God—that’s what America needs.”
He comes up wit this random statement at the end of the Bible piece.
I think about it every time I’m out on Sunday. If I’m visiting someone I still think there’ll be no traffic. It’s Sunday.
The whole world is out on Sunday. They don’t spend the day with their family after church. All the stores are open.
It’s out of order
Contempt for truth--truth for its own sake--is the evil most fundamental to the moral depravity that is destroying America and the decadence that is destroying Western Civilization.
The "higher truth" proclaimed by the Left is nothing but untruth, just as their "new morality" is nothing but immorality.
Churches cannot be “fixed”. They have generally become places where men promote themselves, their ministries, and taking money from God’s people.
Nothing new here. In Acts 20, Paul warned the elders of the church in Ephesus that this would happen. Only thing now is that it’s almost universal.
“28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.29 I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; 30 and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them. 31 Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears. 32 And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. 33 I coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel. 34 You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me. 35 In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Find me a man in church leadership today who demonstrates this life.....
But saints are not without guilt - for they want men to follow, to tell them what to do, to exalt - because so few know how to walk with God themselves and how to live daily with Him alone as their Lord and Master.
The spiritual condition of churches today is tragic, and the world rejects it because behold! It looks at the church and sees nothing different from itself - and says, “No thank you.”
Just because AO-C proclaims it so, doesn’t make it so.
Homosexuals are an unnatural custodian of the churches....
I love when I see a pastor with 3-4 vehicles, a house I could have only afforded to buy, and the $10,000 per month pension plan. Nothing is too good for our pastors. If you are ever in a Korean church, the aforementioned benefits plus paid Christian schooling for their kids, 2-4 trips for the family to Korea every year, 2-3 mission trips that include the pastors family.... That vow of poverty or simply to have enough to live and serve God.
I’m actually thinking about coming out of retirement to preach - can make more in a year preaching than I made working for the Department of State at the end of a 33-year career with government.
Bfl
Amen. Insofar as you define church as a government ordained institution that is privy to exist if it meets certain parameters.
But, if you define the church as individuals who have come to the realization that they are not filthy sinners who, yes, occasionally make poor decisions and that their Heavenly Father loves them regardless and Jesus became One of them so He could have fellowship with them and experience a life filled with joy instead of enduring a guilt-tripped life trying to undo Adam and Eve's poor decision when Jesus already did that, then it can be fixed. But it's up to you and me. Are you up for it?
Jesus said He would build His church and the gates of hell would not prevail against it. I am quite sure He is doing as He promised!
But as Wayne Jacobsen asked a conference of pastors to whom he was speaking, “Ok, it’s been 2000 years now. How do you think He’s doing?”
Silence. All know the true spiritual state of things.
He then asks, “Is it possible that what Jesus was refering to when He used the word ‘church’ is something completely different from what you and I think of?”
Of course. What is called ‘the church’ by the world and most Christians is not the church at all. His church is being built, is spiritually strong and powerful (see third world countries) and victorious. And generally very poor.
One thing I discovered ministering in third world countries: “the poor are rich in faith.” Was James describing us today? Sadly, not many. Not unless we are ‘poor in spirit’. Something rarely found among the wealthy.
Looks like three truths.
Three of them are rewordings of the same thing.
Amen to that, too. God's Word never returns to Him void.
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