simplejeff Posted March 17, 2016 Group: Mars Hill Followers: 12 Topic Count: 12 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 7,689 Content Per Day: 2.38 Reputation: 2 Days Won: 20 Joined: 06/30/2015 Status: Offline Share Posted March 17, 2016 11 minutes ago, SINNERSAVED said: could church ever be like it was when the apostles walked in the history past ? that would be great , I love fellowship and talking about Gods word, but its hard to find a church dedicated to scripture and the meat and potatoes of the word,? maybe it is. read ACTS , Ephesians, Revelation >>> see what it was/ like then . what is written ? ((BEAUTIFUL !!)) A few believers compared to multitudes of sinners. A few believers gathered together in homes, sometimes behind locked doors !!!! ((like today)) see ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eha Posted March 17, 2016 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 194 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 230 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/16/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/08/1973 Share Posted March 17, 2016 1 minute ago, simplejeff said: maybe it is. simple and so true +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplejeff Posted March 17, 2016 Group: Mars Hill Followers: 12 Topic Count: 12 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 7,689 Content Per Day: 2.38 Reputation: 2 Days Won: 20 Joined: 06/30/2015 Status: Offline Share Posted March 17, 2016 ... all((politcs and religin)) culminating toward the end, the owg, owc, as written .... 19 hours ago, SINNERSAVED said: what is going to happen with all the churches in this day and time, for there is more restrictions, and many are made up as companies , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reinitin Posted March 17, 2016 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 13 Topic Count: 51 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2,366 Content Per Day: 0.78 Reputation: 2,150 Days Won: 9 Joined: 01/10/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted March 17, 2016 well i'd rather seek the Lord in a desert and find Him then stand before him only to find out there are no places in heaven given for warming benches listening to false teachers on Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplejeff Posted March 17, 2016 Group: Mars Hill Followers: 12 Topic Count: 12 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 7,689 Content Per Day: 2.38 Reputation: 2 Days Won: 20 Joined: 06/30/2015 Status: Offline Share Posted March 17, 2016 Psalm 63 1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O Elohim, You are my El; I earnestly seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and weary land without water. 2 Therefore I have seen you in the holy place, seeing Your power and Your glory. 3 For Your loving-kindness is better than life; my lips give praise to You. 1 To the chief musician. A Psalm of David. O Elohim, hear my voice in my complaint; guard my life from the dread of the enemy. 2 Hide me from the counsel of those who destroy, from the tumult of evildoers, 3 who sharpen their tongue like a sword; they tread their arrows, a bitter word, 4 so that they may shoot at the innocent from a lurking place; suddenly they shoot at him, and fear not. excerpts from Hebraic Roots Bible. 50 minutes ago, Reinitin said: well i'd rather seek the Lord in a desert and find Him then stand before him only to find out there are no places in heaven given for warming benches listening to false teachers on Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted March 17, 2016 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 597 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,124 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,854 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted March 17, 2016 Well I haven't been active in this thread for I can see all sides of it. for a long time I wasn't attached to a church though we looked high and low for what I considered a church that taught all the Bible..... We settled on a Nazarene church not because of it's doctrine, but because of the love the members had for one another..... and the love they show us even though we can not in good faith join their church. In the near future I think we are going to need each other for support, both spiritually and physically and it would be much harder to be by yourself...... the dark side always knows where you are and being by yourself in the desert is not as safe as with a group of spirit filled Christians. Just my $0.02 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vendtre Posted March 18, 2016 Group: Removed from Forums for Breaking Terms of Service Followers: 2 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,420 Content Per Day: 0.47 Reputation: 322 Days Won: 4 Joined: 01/31/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted March 18, 2016 On March 17, 2016 at 7:23 PM, algots said: How can I say that I love God when I don't desire to be around His children, or those with whom He, also, dwells? One of the most offensive things a professing believer can say is that they love Jesus, just not His followers (with whom the Spirit of Jesus indwells). I have actual blood relatives I cannot stand to be around and very rarely see them because of this. Being family does not mean you have to like everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vendtre Posted March 18, 2016 Group: Removed from Forums for Breaking Terms of Service Followers: 2 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,420 Content Per Day: 0.47 Reputation: 322 Days Won: 4 Joined: 01/31/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted March 18, 2016 5 minutes ago, algots said: You cannot love them if you don't like them. So, to, you cannot claim to love God if you don't love the God in them. I cannot agree with this, you can surly love someone that you do not like. Jesus told us to love our enemy, and one does not like their enemy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SINNERSAVED Posted March 18, 2016 Group: Removed from Forums for Breaking Terms of Service Followers: 6 Topic Count: 150 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 2,195 Content Per Day: 0.69 Reputation: 2,409 Days Won: 14 Joined: 07/30/2015 Status: Offline Author Share Posted March 18, 2016 29 minutes ago, Vendtre said: I cannot agree with this, you can surly love someone that you do not like. Jesus told us to love our enemy, and one does not like their enemy. that is true, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vendtre Posted March 18, 2016 Group: Removed from Forums for Breaking Terms of Service Followers: 2 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,420 Content Per Day: 0.47 Reputation: 322 Days Won: 4 Joined: 01/31/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted March 18, 2016 11 minutes ago, algots said: Are you really attempting to compare fellow church members with being your enemies? You misunderstand the Middle Eastern concept of love. It is not the Americanized version of cotton candy, warm fuzzies, and puppy dog eyes. Love, there, is an action. Read the next few verses. DO this. DO that...an action. I am attempting to show that you can love someone and not really like them at the same time. Let me give you a real life example. I have a cousin that is 1 year older than me (so early 30s), we were friends growing up as much as seeing each other 3 times a year allowed. Since we both became adults he has become a womanizing drunk. He is on his 3rd marriage and brags about cheating on his current wife after an afternoon of him drinking beer like water. I do not like him, he is rude, foul mouthed sexist pig. But he is my family and I do love him and I try to help him when we are together and have even pulled out butt out of the frying pan when he was about to go to jail for writing bad checks (though I wont do it again if he did not learn his lesson). This is a case of loving someone I do not like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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