church characters

[creativemechanic]

a little something I made today.  isn't it funny some of the archetypes you see in relation relation service 

[missmuffet]

Our Churches are changing. We are seeing more Charismatic Churches, Emergent Churches and Vineyard movement Churches to name a few. We are not seeing God in many of our Churches today. It is not because the true word of God has changed, it is the way it is being spoken in our Churches. It is also the people who attend Churches. Not all of them are Christians. Just because a person attends a Church does not make them a born again Christian. No more than me waiting in a doctor's office makes me a doctor. I am sure that there are still a handful of good Churches that are teaching from the Bible the literal true word of God. They are hard to find today. We know the warning that God had for the Churches in the book of Revelation.

Revelation 2 and 3

1. Ephesus- the Orthodox, but Lost-love Church

2. Smyrna- the suffering Church

3. Pergamum- the compromising Church

4. Thyathira- the tolerant, permissive Church

5. Sardis- the Dead Church

6. Philadelphia- the Faithful Church

7. Laodicea- the Lukewarm, Useless Church

[frienduff thaylorde]

21 minutes ago, missmuffet said:

Our Churches are changing. We are seeing more Charismatic Churches, Emergent Churches and Vineyard movement Churches to name a few. We are not seeing God in many of our Churches today. It is not because the true word of God has changed, it is the way it is being spoken in our Churches. It is also the people who attend Churches. Not all of them are Christians. Just because a person attends a Church does not make them a born again Christian. No more than me waiting in a doctor's office makes me a doctor. I am sure that there are still a handful of good Churches that are teaching from the Bible the literal true word of God. They are hard to find today. We know the warning that God had for the Churches in the book of Revelation.

Revelation 2 and 3

1. Ephesus- the Orthodox, but Lost-love Church

2. Smyrna- the suffering Church

3. Pergamum- the compromising Church

4. Thyathira- the tolerant, permissive Church

5. Sardis- the Dead Church

6. Philadelphia- the Faithful Church

7. Laodicea- the Lukewarm, Useless Church

Be blessed dear sister.    We sure can learn from reading that bible and loving the truth.

Even allowing a false prophet or prophetess to teach or seduce the people was a major NO in the eyes of the LORD.

We are to warn out against false hoods ,  and those who teach them .  As we to also instruct with pure holy doctrine which edifies the people.

You loved sister.    

[missmuffet]

1 hour ago, frienduff thaylorde said:

Be blessed dear sister.    We sure can learn from reading that bible and loving the truth.

Even allowing a false prophet or prophetess to teach or seduce the people was a major NO in the eyes of the LORD.

We are to warn out against false hoods ,  and those who teach them .  As we to also instruct with pure holy doctrine which edifies the people.

You loved sister.    

It is Christian discernment that needs to be on full alert when choosing a Church.

[simplejeff]

3 minutes ago, missmuffet said:

It is Christian discernment that needs to be on full alert when choosing a Church.

From all the evidence available, observing and in Scripture,  it is not working for multitudes, and won't.....

[missmuffet]

Just now, simplejeff said:

From all the evidence available, observing and in Scripture,  it is not working for multitudes, and won't.....

I know. Multitudes are lost. Very sad.

[Neighbor]

2 hours ago, missmuffet said:

Our Churches are changing. We are seeing more Charismatic Churches, Emergent Churches and Vineyard movement Churches to name a few. We are not seeing God in many of our Churches today. It is not because the true word of God has changed, it is the way it is being spoken in our Churches. It is also the people who attend Churches. Not all of them are Christians. Just because a person attends a Church does not make them a born again Christian. No more than me waiting in a doctor's office makes me a doctor. I am sure that there are still a handful of good Churches that are teaching from the Bible the literal true word of God. They are hard to find today. We know the warning that God had for the Churches in the book of Revelation.

Revelation 2 and 3

1. Ephesus- the Orthodox, but Lost-love Church

2. Smyrna- the suffering Church

3. Pergamum- the compromising Church

4. Thyathira- the tolerant, permissive Church

5. Sardis- the Dead Church

6. Philadelphia- the Faithful Church

7. Laodicea- the Lukewarm, Useless Church

Ha!  I get it,  Character number one, right?

 

 

[HisFirst]

1 hour ago, missmuffet said:

Our Churches are changing. We are seeing more Charismatic Churches, Emergent Churches and Vineyard movement Churches to name a few. 

Sorry MM, I must live under a rock but what is Vineyard movement church?

[Neighbor]

1 hour ago, missmuffet said:

It is Christian discernment that needs to be on full alert when choosing a Church.

Yes it is so sad that many will sit at home alone, lamenting in their dissonance seeking online others with the same discord to share, rather than going about finding  fellow Christians in corporate worship with  each actively helping the other, protecting  the young among them, assisting the orphans and widows, while worshipping God with the Holy Spirit among them all in the name of Jesus.

 

[missmuffet]

42 minutes ago, HisFirst said:

Sorry MM, I must live under a rock but what is Vineyard movement church?

Question: "What is the Vineyard Movement?"

Answer: The Vineyard Movement is a network of Charismatic churches, part of a movement recognized by such names as “Third Wave,” “power theology,” and the “signs and wonders movement.” The Vineyard Movement’s founder, John Wimber, formed five churches in 1982, with the goal of forming 2,000 churches by the year 2000. The stated goal of the Vineyard Movement was to combine the best of evangelical thinking with Pentecostal practices.

Churches in the Vineyard Movement are evangelical in nature and orthodox in their basic doctrine. They hold to salvation by grace through faith and are very concerned with spreading the gospel of the kingdom (through “power evangelism”—demonstrations of the miraculous). What makes Vineyard churches distinct from many other evangelical groups is their emphasis on the “sign gifts” of the Spirit.

Members of the Vineyard Movement place a premium on experience. In fact, their booklet Core Values and Beliefs says, “Experience-based worship is the central activity of all that we do in the Vineyard. . . . We experience God’s presence as a palpable reality when we worship” (page 5). This experience-based reality and seeking “palpable” manifestations of God is characteristic of Charismatic teaching. Of course, there is nothing wrong with “experiencing” God in worship or in daily life, as long as experience is not allowed to compete with or supersede the Word of God revealed in the Bible.

Some churches in the Vineyard Movement tend to promote certain spiritual gifts such as tongues, healing, and casting out demons as the more desired gifts. It is the position of Got Questions Ministries that the purpose of these “sign gifts” was fulfilled at the close of the apostolic age. As Paul said, prophecies and tongues will cease, in contrast to love, which endures forever (1 Corinthians 13:8). Paul’s imperative was to learn the more excellent way, the way of love (1 Corinthians 12:31).

The initial goal of the Vineyard Movement, to combine solid evangelical theology with Pentecostal expressions of the Holy Spirit, was admirable. So was its purpose to “allow the Spirit to move in ways we do not expect.” However, that openness to spiritual inventiveness has allowed doctrines and practices to infiltrate its ranks. For example, the so-called “Toronto Blessing” began in a Vineyard Church. To their credit, the Vineyard Movement recognized the danger of the Toronto Blessing and has distanced itself from that particular phenomenon.

The Vineyard Movement is not a cult. Rather, the Vineyard Movement is a part of the Body of Christ that emphasizes the worship experience and seeks the miraculous gifts of Spirit.

https://www.gotquestions.org/Vineyard-Movement.html