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To: PugetSoundSoldier

Quick question, which will help me in my subsequent reply, if you would.

How do you believe Christ currently interacts with us? By what means does He achieve grace in the world? How does He spread to the world the Good News of our salvation through Him? This is basically the same question put three ways, just to make sure I am understood.

1,512 posted on 07/02/2009 10:00:35 AM PDT by bdeaner (The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? (1 Cor. 10:16))

I believe he interacts with us in the following ways (by no means exhaustive):

1. Personally, by direct revelation (that tugging in everyone’s heart that they are missing something)

2. By miracles

3. By the Bible (I have met people who were saved by those Gideon Bibles placed in hotels)

4. By evangelism of Christians

5. By attendance in church

There are a LARGE variety of ways Christ interacts with us; the church is but one. My biggest issue is with the author’s claim that the church is the only way. That is simply not scriptural.

1,553 posted on 07/02/2009 4:57:43 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)

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