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Where in the hell are the churches?

Posted on 04/24/2012 9:04:06 PM PDT by ShadowPatriot

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1 posted on 04/24/2012 9:04:08 PM PDT by ShadowPatriot
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To: ShadowPatriot

If you want to join the church Jesus founded... you would be welcome.


2 posted on 04/24/2012 9:06:46 PM PDT by rwilson99 (Please tell me how the words "shall not perish and have everlasting life" would NOT apply to Mary.)
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Where in the hell are the churches?

Nice. Puts all Christians into the same category as all the reality shows. Nice.

3 posted on 04/24/2012 9:09:21 PM PDT by doc1019 (Romney will never get my vote!)
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Sad indeed!
Our church turned around...it was headed that way...it is now debt free and investing in community and of course the real priority missions (Matthew 28:16-20).
Major community outreach! As a result of being debt free able to launch a local community focused ministry. 6Stones has changed thousands of lives and our whole community in the middle of the DFW metroplex.


4 posted on 04/24/2012 9:12:54 PM PDT by An American! (Proud To Be An American!)
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Churches in the hell? An interesting concept. You write about this topic lightly, doncha?


5 posted on 04/24/2012 9:13:30 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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Find a priest you can sit down and talk with and get your questions answered. Then consider the TRUE church.

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6 posted on 04/24/2012 9:14:20 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Over the decades . . . I’ve tended to rant against churches & leaders who ought to have known better

than I have at rank sinners et al.

Sounds like you received dreadful treatment.

Recently a deacon in our church treated her rather horribly in her job as a customer . . . I’m still pondering what is fitting to do now about that.

Thankfully our Pastor at least believes more or less in having Biblical relationships and taking Biblical steps to right them.

However, putting that where the rubber meets the road still has a fair chunk to grow into, walk out as a body of believers.

Sounds like you got labeled and shunted aside as BEYOND THE PALE . . . when it was actually the group that had moved outside the Biblical parameters . . . if I understand things well.

I know there’ no perfect congregation and even less so a perfect denomination. However, do so many seem to HAVE to PRACTICE SO HARD BEING SO HORRIBLE?


7 posted on 04/24/2012 9:18:10 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Salvation

Or find a protestant preacher you can sit down and talk with and get your questions answered. Then consider the TRUE church.


8 posted on 04/24/2012 9:20:40 PM PDT by doc1019 (Romney will never get my vote!)
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Not to mention, they serve assorted flavors of premium-blend coffees for your sipping enjoyment during the sermon.

As a Trad Catholic I had no idea such a silly thing occurs. Anyway, the (R)eal (C)hristian church is always there for you.

9 posted on 04/24/2012 9:20:40 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
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To: ShadowPatriot

So true.


10 posted on 04/24/2012 9:26:16 PM PDT by Jaded (Really? Seriously?)
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To: doc1019
You're stealing my line. LOL!

How Old Is Your Church?

11 posted on 04/24/2012 9:30:29 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Check out Ann Barnhardt and get away from the ‘feel good, rock and roll’ church and the pastor who will throw away his faith to keep from getting a visit from the IRS.


12 posted on 04/24/2012 9:31:27 PM PDT by ebshumidors ( Marksmanship and YOUR heritage http://www.appleseedinfo.org)
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To: Salvation

My point ... it works both ways. LOL!


13 posted on 04/24/2012 9:32:48 PM PDT by doc1019 (Romney will never get my vote!)
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To: Revolting cat!

Many churches are in hell. We have one that let’s the muzzies use their facilities.


14 posted on 04/24/2012 9:34:53 PM PDT by ebshumidors ( Marksmanship and YOUR heritage http://www.appleseedinfo.org)
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To: ShadowPatriot

Everything you ‘need’ can be found in the pages of the Bible. If your ‘church’ has to result to Starbucks, rock bands and stadiums, it’s no ‘church at all.

Personally I was raised RC and still believe the vast majority of the teachings. I parted company when the leadership refused to follow their own playbook. IMO, if one ‘has’ to associate with a church at all, the RC Church is still head and shoulders, IMO despite the problems, above these wannabee preachers with a secular degree in business.

If they took their own teachings seriously, I’d be back. Until then, Me and the Good Lord are doing just fine. I discovered that I didn’t need a middleman to tell me what I can plainly read for myself. That is something you may or may not wish to consider for yourself.


15 posted on 04/24/2012 9:35:27 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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Not to mention the Clergy Response Teams of the DHS.


16 posted on 04/24/2012 9:39:20 PM PDT by Republican1795.
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The churches have been co-opted and intimidated into inaction and often into irrelevance


17 posted on 04/24/2012 9:53:11 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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Jesus didn’t found a church, he set an example and led the way to heaven for all of us.

No where in the Bible does it say there are infallible humans (Popes) or to pray to dead people (Saints). Or to pray over totems and relics.


18 posted on 04/24/2012 9:55:05 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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19 posted on 04/24/2012 9:56:46 PM PDT by narses
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The Churches are terrorized, compromised, and marginalized.

Even the Catholic Church, which has played along with Democrat Socialists for decades, now finds it’s base doctrines being attacked, and can’t do anything about it, out of fear of political correctness.


20 posted on 04/24/2012 10:00:19 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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