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1 posted on 06/15/2018 4:41:29 PM PDT by pastorbillrandles
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Watch for a BIG church split between those who want to continue mixing grace and law, preaching the ministry of death and the Ten Commandments versus ministry of the Spirit, the preaching of the gospel of the grace of Christ without the law.

It’s already happening.

In the next few decades, watch God’s Grace Revolution, Jude’s prophetic “earnestly contending for the faith that was once delivered to the saints”, to capture the church and encircle the globe and a massive worldwide incoming of souls before Christ comes for his saints.


2 posted on 06/15/2018 4:52:19 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Yes, it's true that the Lord works all things, including church splits, for our good. However, to say that church splits are His will would be a lie. The Lord's will is that we (His body) be one as He and the Father are one.

In a similar vein, there can be circumstances that justify a divorce. However, divorce is not the Lord's will.

3 posted on 06/15/2018 7:29:16 PM PDT by JesusIsLord
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Excellent observations. Here's a true-life case-in-point:

In 1970 the pastor of Sierra Madre Congregational Church (near Pasadena CA) decided he had become an atheist. The congregation left in droves, went across the street and formed a new church, Bethany, which thrives to this day.

Meanwhile, the small remnant hired the youth pastor from Pasadena's Lake Avenue Congregational Church, Richard Anderson, who on his first Sunday preached to sixteen people including his wife and three sons. He retired recently after forty years of leading over 1,000 people to the Lord just by himself.

Moreover, his longtime Evangelism Minister, Dr. Hugh Ross, eventually founded Reasons to Believe (Reasons.org), which conservatively is responsible worldwide for leading at least one million to saving faith in Jesus.

7 posted on 06/16/2018 9:20:40 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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