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To: SoConPubbie

Yeah, I think its you that is confused. The fact is, I don’t even need to attend a church to be a christian. Your easter prerequisite is just stupid.


122 posted on 04/09/2012 11:57:27 AM PDT by mamelukesabre (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line)
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To: mamelukesabre
The fact is, I don’t even need to attend a church to be a christian.

Technically, you are correct. However, anyone who claims to be a Christian but doesn't attend regular worship services and relish spending time with other Christians needs to carefully examine him or herself in light of God's Word. It is not some legalistic requirement but the proper response of the joyful heart of one who is truly saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. It's not that we have to attend but that we really want to attend because God has replaced our hearts of stone with a heart of flesh.

Obviously, I'm not God* but every person who I have heard make such a statement about being a Christian but not needing to attend church has provided lots of other reasons to question their profession.

* Since this is a Mormon thread, let me point that I will never become a god nor will any other human being.

124 posted on 04/09/2012 12:18:50 PM PDT by CommerceComet (If Mitt can leave the GOP to protest Reagan, why can't I do the same in protest of Romney?)
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