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To: BenKenobi

Together all believers form the holy Christian church, a “spiritual house” made up of living stones chosen by God. When the Holy Spirit works faith in our hearts, we become part of this structure. The Lord Jesus can see the faith in our hearts. We, however, can only see the fruits of faith and not the faith itself. Because we cannot see faith, the church is invisible to our eyes.


89 posted on 12/17/2010 10:36:58 AM PST by Vegasrugrat
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To: Vegasrugrat

The problem is that the disunity is visible, and I don’t believe this is how it was ought to be in the beginning, that this is a tribute to our brokenness. I think we are all supposed to be in God’s house together.

For me personally it was this realization that brought me over. I eventually came to the conclusion that while there were things to which I disagreed, that Christ himself wanted us to be together, and it was up to me to figure this out. The conversion had to be me going to the Catholic church.

I didn’t leave because I was unhappy with the Mennonites or that they were poorly informed, it really had absolutely not a blessed thing to do with them.


200 posted on 12/17/2010 3:29:18 PM PST by BenKenobi ("All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady." -Tolkein)
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