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To: Cronos
I became a member of Christ 31 years ago (Romans 12; 1 Cor. 12; etc.)

“Roll” membership in an earthly institution, even one called a “church,” is not joining the Body of Christ. I did not join the Body of Christ by joining an earthly “grouping.”

I was baptized by the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 12:13; Colossians 2:11, 12) and circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, and made a member of Christ by “the operation of God” (Col. 2:12). Joining an earthly “grouping” of believers does not enhance that standing, nor can not joining one hinder it.

Such a standing is available to any sinner who will come to Christ (not an earthly “grouping”) personally by faith in the all-sufficiency of His shed Blood for the satisfaction of God's Righteousness in the matter of payment for sins.

1,006 posted on 05/31/2008 2:37:21 AM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: John Leland 1789

You know...I tried all that.

It didn’t work.

Eating the Real Body and drinking the Real Blood of Christ: that worked.


1,007 posted on 05/31/2008 2:46:19 AM PDT by papertyger
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To: John Leland 1789
I became a member of Christ 31 years ago (Romans 12; 1 Cor. 12; etc.)

God Bless you brother!

1,014 posted on 05/31/2008 4:26:29 AM PDT by wmfights (Believe - THE GOSPEL - and be saved)
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To: John Leland 1789
I became a member of Christ 31 years ago

Ok, congratulations -- I have been part of the Church that has made me a member of Christ. God bless you!
1,088 posted on 05/31/2008 7:40:51 AM PDT by Cronos ("Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant" - Omar Ahmed, CAIR)
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