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To: D-fendr
I should add that I'm assuming your church is the one you linked to: United Church of God. Which I believe is a remnant of the Worldwide Church of God? This is what I meant by "new church."

The church I belong to is the body of Christ. It is not an organization, but the spiritual body of believers who follow the teachings of Christ and believe on him for salvation. This is the same church established in Acts 2 and that is the church of which I am a member.

I do attend worship services with the United Church of God. United was formed by approximately 20,000 former members of the Worldwide Church of God. Corporately, United can be considered new since it was incorporated in 1995.

117 posted on 03/27/2005 10:14:39 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC
It is not an organization…

You adhere to the teachings of a church organization. It has it's own tradition.You can rail against organization or tradition, but no human starts from scratch and develops in a vacuum.

I do attend worship services

I'm very glad to hear that. Too often the "modern" view is "I don't need no organized religion" when religion most deeply involves community.

United was formed by approximately 20,000 former members of the Worldwide Church of God.

I have a close friend who belonged to the WWWCG. I would think the experience would make one even more appreciative of a church that manages in this world to persevere for centuries. New churches, new teachings come and go in waves, making their predictions and proclamations, then splitting and falling and passing away and usually shouting some "revelation" that the church that has stood for millennia preaching the Word of God "has it all wrong.".

I hope you will understand my skepticism.

123 posted on 03/27/2005 6:30:10 PM PST by D-fendr
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