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To: ladyinred
What about your faith is most important to you ?

My, that is an interesting question. I must admit that threw me, as I haven't stopped to think about it in those terms. The most important thing is my relationship with Christ, followed by obeying the 10 commandments, which the former denomination I belonged to keep saying was under the law.

I want the truth and I don't want doctrines of men and I am beginning to think that is too much to ask.


You may wish to look at the Lutheran Church, ... as well as some of the more conservative branches of the Methodist Church ... or one of the Baptist Churches.

These denominations, typically, see the Ten Commandments ... as well as the (2) overarching commandments ...
Matthew 22:35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
... as the character and behaviour that we, as God's childen, should strive for ... and that character and behaviour which should be observable in the life of a christian.

Of the set (i.e. the Lutherans, the Methodists, and the Baptists) ... the Lutherans will be the most like Catholicism ... the Baptists will be the most free-form and independent ... and the Methodists will be somewhere in the middle.

296 posted on 11/24/2004 1:06:52 PM PST by Quester
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To: Quester
Thank you so much for the suggestions. I have actually considered the Lutheran Church. My best friend is a Lutheran, and I have attended services with her in the past. I have been a lifelong Baptist, and find that there are too many clashes going on there these days which is why I am searching elsewhere.
314 posted on 11/27/2004 10:50:42 PM PST by ladyinred (Congratulations President Bush! Four more years!)
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