To: GerardPH
Tell me, what did the Christians of the first three centuries do?
Not anything really different than what Spirit Filled/ led Christians do today in developed or 3rd world countries.
1.Pray in the Spirit (gift of tongues or in native language)
and function in their particular gifts of the Holy Ghost.
2.Listen to the Voice (impressions)of/by the Holy Spirit, other believers and elders for direction and service to others in life.
Shared their faith with unbelievers. 3.Gathered together in the homes of other Christians or their own for worship, the reading of whatever copies of the early letters they might have had access to if any at all and their own inspired writings, breaking of bread (meal and remembrance of the Lord Jesus, fellowship,singing of personal or others inspired songs.
You see the Holy Ghost and His gifts are given to each believer as he wills to distribute them and together corporately we are led to all truth.
That is why all believers do not run in mass to join the Catholic Church. The Holy Ghost is not telling them to do that in the majority of cases, if really any at all. If the Catholic Church were the true church then the Holy Spirit would lead all people to it. That is not happening. I and millions of others like me will follow the lead of the Holy Ghost and work out our salvation with fear and trembling.
To: clearsight
You're imbibing in what Scriptures call the Doctrine of Devils. My friend Gerry Matatics used to attend Charismatic meetings in which he would recite Psalms in Hebrew. Of course others would come up and translate for them. It's amazing how the Holy Spirit doesn't recognize his own words.
I suggest you go hear Gerry if he comes to your town or you can check out his conversion story of how the Bible convinced him that the one, true Church of Christ is the Catholic Church.
www.gerrymatatics.org
It seems you know nothing of Church history except charismatic revisionism.
You're following practices that go no further than 100 years back and have their origins in Wisconsin.
As far as believers who don't join the Catholic Church goes, if they don't join, they will go to Hell. It's that simple. If they don't believe in the Church that Christ established here on earth, then they are not believers except in the Devil making himself into an Angel of Light in order to fool them with false versions of Christianity.
They are lost as well if they are not saved according to Christ's will.
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