Posted on 12/19/2005 6:23:54 AM PST by NYer
Nope, nothing justifies smearing priests, Dave. I got a fine education from selfless Basilican and Jesuit priests. Anyone who smears priests generally is as wrong as anyone who smears evangelicals generally.
I missed the smear post, btw. And if I catch a fellow protestant doing that, I WILL call him on it.
Would you care to expound a bit more?
My church is just cancelling Sunday School next week.
SD
And what day was the "Lord's Day?"
To the believer, every day is the Lord's day and we are to live accordingly.
Sure it does, provided he is a widower, or she has entered a convent. Nary an early Christian had an exegesis of this passage other than that. "Husband of one wife" was a guaranteee of his continence in the minsitry. A man who could not control his human flesh and remarried, or who continued using marriage after ordination, could not be expected to maintain the discipline needed to be a Bishop.
The Catholic Church doesn't forbid married men the ministry. It forbids ministers to make use of their marriage if they had one prior to ordination, faithful to the exhortation of the Lord. "And every one that hath left house, or ... wife, or children, ... for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting." (St. Matthew 19.29)
A million Chinese can be wrong.
A few millennia of the Christian Tradition of Sunday worship I am less likely to dismiss as erroneous or irrelevant.
SD
Dang straight! LOL!
Every house is the "Lord's House". My house is even more so as he is actively worshiped here.
We're having services on Christmas Eve (evening) and Christmas morning (non-denominational evangelical church), but I certainly won't and cannot condemn any other churches who choose to close on Christmas. Their choice.
This is a tempest in a teapot. Quite frankly I have no intention of going to Church on Christmas Day. Our Church is having 4 Christmas Eve Services and one Christmas morning service and I will be attending one of the Christmas eve services?
I will not judge those who choose for whatever logistical or spiritual reason to close on Christmas Day. Personally, I'm going to be closed on Christmas Day.
Frankly, I suspect that many of those who are critical of Pastors Weese and Coy will choose to attend Christmas Eve services and skip the morning Christmas service at their own churches. Yet here they are tossing stones.
"Oh, but OUR Church would NEVER think of closing on Christmas day!!" "OUR Church is better than THEIR Church!" Of course they themselves won't be there on Christmas morning but certainly they take comfort in the fact that their pastor and all their church volunteers all have to drag themselves out of bed at 5 AM on Christmas morning and drag themselves to the sanctuaries to serve them, even though they probably won't be there to watch.
How many more are homosexual and just haven't moved on their urges?
No, God is offended by those who go to church only as an obligation.
Would your parents not be offended if they knew that you visit them not because you love them and enjoy the being with them, but only due to obligation? Remember, you may be able to fool your parents, but you can't fool God - he knows why you're there.
The Lord's house is in your heart, not in some edifice.
About the same amount that Jesus and His disciples received for walking through a wheatfield and eating the grain on a Sabbath?
To SD, yes, if they're not Catholic.
I know of one church that normally has three services on saturday night and three on Sunday morning. They are doing six services on Christmas eve and five on Christmas day. They can seat just over 1,000 in each service.
Hebrews 10.24-27. St. Paul claims forsaking the assembly of believers merits eternal hellfire.
And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to good works: Not forsaking our assembly, as some are accustomed: but comforting one anther, and so much the more as you see the day approaching. For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins: But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall consume the adversaries.
Why is it always so easy to make doctrinaire Protestants like yourself look so foolish on these points?
I'll be there at Midnight, and I'll be there the next morning too. With my family.
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