Harold Camping "deserts" devastated followers

[Guest]

On another note, the potential of a church losing it's tax exempt status should not be a big worry. God provides all our needs, and the government is not really able to prevent that.

True, but it's another step down the road to persecution. I'm not looking forward to that, but the church always grows under persecution.

[Smalcald]

"Tom Evans was contrite. Evans is on the board of Family Radio, the organization led by Harold Camping, who calculated and promoted the May 21 date.

"I don't know where we went wrong other than that we obviously don't understand the Scriptures in the way that we should," he says. ""

He hit the nail on the head.

[Fraught]

What really bothers me is some people may look at Camping's failed prediction and conclude that Christianity in it's entirety is false.

That was my concern too but i look at it another way now. we know that God is busy weeding out the tares here in these last days. this is just one of the more public 'weeding outs'.

[nebula]

Looks like he's come out of hiding:

http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=5022

[Guest Butero]

On another note, the potential of a church losing it's tax exempt status should not be a big worry. God provides all our needs, and the government is not really able to prevent that.

The government will be reluctant to take away the church's tax exemption because if they do that, they will lose all control over the church. There will be nothing to stop them from being political.

[Guest Butero]

Looks like he's come out of hiding:

http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=5022

He needs to make some kind of official statement acknowledging his error. I do not condemn Mr. Camping. It appears he really believed the rapture would occur Saturday? My biggest issue with him all along was that he said this was guaranteed by God, rather than saying he believed the rapture would occur based on calculations he had made. I looked into his claims, and the calculations were based on dates he had no way of confirming with absolute certainty. Only God the Father knows the day and hour of the Lord's return.

[Fez]

On another note, the potential of a church losing it's tax exempt status should not be a big worry. God provides all our needs, and the government is not really able to prevent that.

The government will be reluctant to take away the church's tax exemption because if they do that, they will lose all control over the church. There will be nothing to stop them from being political.

Churches are not tax exempt here.

Every year the pastor/elders have to put out the church financials for the entire congregation to see. Although many churches don't do this, ours does. We spend 20 to 30 minutes going through the financials up on a data projector and anyone can ask questions or make suggestions.

Out pastor and elders are not paid (they are all employed, and in the case of our pastor, he sold his sugar farm and lives off the interest while he pastors full time), only our church secretary receives a salary.

Our church owns nothing except some sound equipment, three computers, a data projector and the usual stuff for teaching Sunday school. This despite the fact that our tithes and offerings are quite large for a small church. We don't own a building but use a local sports club hall and have for years. We have discussed building (which we could probably afford), but have decided against it until we hear from God.

The money goes to outreach, courses, and helping those in need.

Hey, most of us would meet under a tree if we had to. We meet in a hall because it provides shade and keeps the rain off our heads.........

[nebula]

That's more like what the church was in the beginning, I think.

You are blessed.

[ayin jade]

Through chatting with a friend over what he acknowledged was a very difficult weekend, it dawned on him that instead of the biblical Rapture in which the faithful would be swept up to the heavens, May 21 had instead been a "spiritual" Judgment Day, which places the entire world under Christ's judgment, he said.

The globe will be completely destroyed in five months, he said, when the apocalypse comes. But because God's judgment and salvation were completed on Saturday, there's no point in continuing to warn people about it, so his network will now just play Christian music and programs until the final end on Oct. 21.

The latest in the news about him.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110524/ap_on_re_us/us_apocalypse_saturday;_ylt=AjQx0X6KJB6N4fvI859StaOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNxOWszcWdtBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTEwNTI0L3VzX2Fwb2NhbHlwc2Vfc2F0dXJkYXkEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM0BHBvcwMxBHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5faGVhZGxpbmVfbGlzdARzbGsDcmFkaW9ob3N0c2F5

[one_christian_warrior]

PLEASE BE AWARE = 2020 VISION

Why the TRIBULATION MUST START by or before MARCH 14, 2012

YES,,, THERE IS A DEADLINE,

FOR THE RETURN OF CHRIST,

Derived from the verse in Mathew 24:34 + 33

(Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.)

(So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.)

Let me show you God