Posted on 04/21/2019 5:20:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
A church building can be full and still be emty in spirit. Rev18 :2
She has Become the dewelling place of every unclean spirit.
Paul tells believers not to even eat with adulterers yet most churches
not only has sodomites in the congregation but many in the clergy, Paul
tells the Corinthians to get them out of the church.
The church is dying and been given over to every unclean spirit.
Fourth Presbyterian Church, in the rock-ribbed, conservative, Bible-belt town of Bethesda, MD, is doing fine as well.
You are absolutely correct! The Sunday I was given a sermon in an episcopal "church" on the positive aspects of abortion was my last day in that church. I have no less faith, but supporting an organization that has become nothing more than a corporation that is mostly concerned with the bottom line is NOT religion.
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You are delusional. Including the Roman Catholic Church with Mormons and JW’s? That is truly evil. You may not agree with everything in the RCC, but they confess the Nicene Creed at every service, which is the foundational Confession of Christians everywhere. Don’t bother to reply. There is no reasoning with a mindset such as you display.
God gave us the best church leader in PAUL. It was departure from his “my gospel” that railroaded us. The answer is not in the early church, which was already in the process of turning away from the one Jesus Christ CHOSE to lead us. The answer is in his letters, where sound doctrine IS found, and where the revelation of the mystery—Christ in you, the hope of glory—is found.
https://www.buzzardhut.net/Catho/
Don't take the Mark.
Article asks..”Is churchgoing and religious adherence really in ‘widespread decline’?...............
Of course and the true believers are slowly heading underground...just as He said would occur. Many of the Emmergent Evangelical Assemblies are all about ‘feeling’ and ‘spirituality’ but this does not mean they are Christian. And Islam boasts of huge growth so it’s not a question of growth.
Christianity is not based on any church you attend. It’s where believers in Jesus Christ gather together...who have understood the Gospel message of Salvation in, of and through Him.
It is fruitless to argue about churches as people will choose where they want to go.....if they get in the wrong one He will lead them out IF they truly are seeking Him and His truth.
(Wow, well, there are now TWO of us! :-)
I have a Malinois greeter, they don’t come by my house often.
I sure feel less intelligent after reading that!!
in short it has become arm of dnc/rino party
Our church is growing so fast the pastor cannot give enough services. It is a through the Bible fundamental church in a liberal town.
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