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To: fwdude

That sounds reasonable. However, I think you’d be disapointed at the sheer number of Americans who really couldn’t care less about what any given church thinks.


146 posted on 11/15/2009 11:32:31 AM PST by Melas
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To: Melas
I think you’d be disapointed at the sheer number of Americans who really couldn’t care less about what any given church thinks.

Then those Americans, in my opinion, show themselves to be false "Christians" who have no regard for the Biblical teaching that should embody the lifestyle of any true Christian community. They don't belong there in any other capacity than to be evangelized as sinners and to be restored to true biblical wholeness.

This relatively recent business of welcoming "everyone" into the church, regardless of belief, intention of obedience, or lifestyle, has no basis in the scriptures. The early Church was very selective in who they considered allowable into their "family," which it was in a very true sense. You met the terms of repentance and obedience to Christ's commands, or you stayed outside in darkness. The holiness of the Spirit-filled Church actually repelled many earnest inquirers who hadn't fully considered the implications of the call: "And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things. And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch. And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.)" Acts 5:11-13

148 posted on 11/15/2009 12:21:25 PM PST by fwdude (It is not the liberals who will destroy this country, but the "moderates.")
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