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To: jboot
Believe me, I can empathize with your situation. In my situation, the nearest true Bible believing church is over 100 miles away. So I stand and fight. This is where God placed me. Remember, you can reach the lost in church as well as in the world. Don't make your decision based upon the fact that going to a true church will make you ~feel~ better. If it is God's will that you stay and suffer persecution for his name and reach the lost in your church then that is your duty. If it is God's will that you should be discipled under truth instead of peleganism then that is your duty. Pray continually.

God Bless
20 posted on 01/15/2004 10:06:56 AM PST by lockeliberty
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To: lockeliberty
Thanks, you hit a good point. There are a lot of folks in our church who think that they are saved because they walked an aisle and said a prayer (often more than once), but who have no fruit and live carnally. The pastor calls them backslidden, I call them pretend Christians. I lived with one for years, I know the symptoms. You are right, they need to hear the Gospel-not a sales presentation, but the whole Gospel of God.

Don't make your decision based upon the fact that going to a true church will make you ~feel~ better.

Yeouch, that hit a nerve! I consider myself chastised and repent of this exact attitude.

22 posted on 01/15/2004 10:20:51 AM PST by jboot (Faith is not a work; swarming, however, is.)
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