Posted on 04/18/2014 6:24:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Concur. Something we all look forwards to see and welcome.
There is only one church and it's none of the above...The 'church' is not an institution...Those not affiliated with the Catholic religion understand this...
A cursory study of the the 'church' in the scriptures readily reveals this...
All Christians 'are' one...
Those seven churches mention in the Book of Revelation were ALL Catholic Churches.
It means overcoming the “denominational” trap.
Catholics can expect to be persecuted in our day, just like Christ was persecuted in his day.
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Including yours...
God looks upon the heart rather than upon the form worship takes.
Every now and then one of these nut cases has to go ‘public.’
Sad that National Review has descended so far as to give such wackos a soapbox.
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A 73 years old, I have seen in that short span many changes in the Catholic Church. Most rewarding has been the more quiet acceptance of other Denominations. Catholic / Baptist backgrounds of my father and mother, while not a major cause of friction, never the less caused a degree of discomfort between cousins and in-laws.
I believe the fact that most of my religious instruction was by Jesuits has been the major contribution to my present status.
The same paradigm is used on AGW, and any other “science” they want to be true.
Prove it. Opinions of man don't count. Use Scripture.
Show me where it says they were CATHOLIC churches.
Show me where the word *catholic* appears in the Bible.
That ain't gonna happen unless people lose the *My church is the One True Church (OTC) mentality.
Jesus preached His message to all who would believe in Him and His message of salvation. Over the last 2,000 years we followers have done that, though not without disagreement and dissention. I believe that all of us who accept Jesus as our Savior and Lord, will be welcomed by Him into heaven. He gives us His and His Father’s Grace.
While we, here in this physical realm, disagree over doctrine, as long as we dedicate ourselves to Him and follow his teachings, we will go home to Him. We are all Christians, and if He has the grace to forgive us our sins, then I suspect that he will forgive us of our doctrinal differences.
At the time of my baptism I had the sense that all who accept Jesus as his or her personal savior, ought to be united in following Him and doing His work. That we should not focus on what divides us, but on what unites us: Our give of salvation by our Saviour, Jesus.
And I’ve realized that in our disagreements we are not helping Him with the mission He entrusted to us as his disciples.
see my post # 36
I know it just pushes some people over the edge when others won’t reveal their denominational affiliation, but your reason is part of why I don’t do it.
A relationship with Christ is not about denominations.
My identity is being in Christ, not being a Catholic, or Baptist, or Presbyterian, or a member of any number of denominations.
Churches don’t save. Christ does.
My devotion is to HIM, not an organization.
AMEN to that.
Sadly, and we may very well be seeing this starting to happen, we could be seeing a national government that will more and more be very anti-Christian, regardless of church denotionation so we have to focus on Jesus and His calling to be deciples.
Thank-you and God Bless as well.
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