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To: CA Conservative

No, It is about the Stone-Campbell restroationist Church of Christ (the hardline/one true church variety). And I agree that musical instruments should not be a salvation issue but hardline CoC’s make it a salvation issue.


29 posted on 08/24/2015 9:46:04 AM PDT by damonw
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To: damonw

This is my definition of religion:

Acts 17

24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. 26 From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27 God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

God has stretched his hand out to me. It is my duty inseparable from my honor and desire to reach back to the best of my ability. When you are so blessed with salvation, only a fool would not respond to such beauty to the best of his ability.

My understanding of the Word lies closely with your disparagement of “hardline coC”. We have been given a prescription, formula, and example of worship. I follow it not because I believe I will be saved by works but because it is my duty, honor, and desire to worship the High King to the best of my ability.

I could not be saved being a Baptist or Catholic because it would not be ME worshipping in the best way I understand how to do so.

I would and could not make any assumptions about anybody else.

There is, however, one true church and its members are those people whom have their names written on the Book of Life. Where those one true church members worship on Sunday morning is between them and their outreach hands, and God and His.


34 posted on 08/24/2015 10:02:48 AM PDT by ziravan (Didn't think it needed a /sarc)
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To: damonw

The Stone-Campbell restorationist groups will not even accept the Irish version of restorationists because the Irish version came about on it’s own without Campbell or Stone.


45 posted on 08/24/2015 10:44:56 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Never trust anyone who promotes "sensible" gun control laws!)
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