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To: EricT.

Si Senor, “Me and Jesus got us a good thing goin’, we don’t need no stinkin’ church”.


98 posted on 07/14/2014 11:22:40 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: NKP_Vet
we don’t need no stinkin’ church”.

I didn't say that, and you should be ashamed of implying that very thing. My point is that being saved by the grace of Jesus Christ does not need a gold-plated giga-church full of pomp and circumstance. One only needs to trust that Jesus paid the price for our own sins on the cross.

That being said, there is a church that I am very active in. The bible is read, studied, and taught there multiple times each week. We are a body of believers in Christ. Our pastor is a very humble man, but an excellent teacher of God's word. We don't waste God's money keeping a few thousand gaudy, opulent palaces running. He drives an old minivan instead of an armored popemobile. Instead, we support spreading the love and good news of Jesus Christ all over the world, from Swaziland to Kenya to Liberia to Honduras to Tibet to Canada to our own back yard. This is from a body of only a few hundred believers.

So much of what the Catholic church is about is superfluous to what the original church described in Acts found important. Yet you hold this nonsense as sacred.

109 posted on 07/14/2014 11:48:06 AM PDT by EricT. (Everything not forbidden is compulsory.)
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