Church

[RarexxRose]

3 minutes ago, johnthebaptist said:

Don't allow yourself to be used.

Sometimes churches go astray

[johnthebaptist]

2 minutes ago, RarexxRose said:

Sometimes churches go astray

Yes, I said that on another thread recently, didn't I? One has to decide, then, if they want to try to get their church back on track, or if they'd rather find another church.

[shortangel]

pray about it & then ask God if you should leave this fellowship of believers,  if you're starting to feel uncomfortable find another church where you will get fed & where the Bible is taught & you feel accepted

[Billiards Ball]

How did so many manage an answer without understanding the OP to begin?

John 7:51 - "Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?"

If you were the pastor of the "guinea pig" church, would you be excited about the encouragement to judge and leave that church so fast?

[Billiards Ball]

On 5/15/2019 at 12:19 AM, RarexxRose said:

What do you do when you feel like a churches guinea pig?

I have no idea what you're asking. What do you mean "the church is experimenting on you"?

[Neighbor]

On 5/15/2019 at 2:51 AM, Marilyn C said:

A meeting run by a religious organisation is public, and as such is limited in what it can do.

Really? ??? Gee I don't think so.

All church meetings and religious organization meetings  I have been a part of over the years  are highly restricted , certainly not public, nor limited in any way shape or form by anyone other than the group's organizers of  a meeting.

[Marilyn C]

12 hours ago, Neighbor said:

Really? ??? Gee I don't think so.

All church meetings and religious organization meetings  I have been a part of over the years  are highly restricted , certainly not public, nor limited in any way shape or form by anyone other than the group's organizers of  a meeting.

Hi Neighbor,

That`s good for you. I was really referring to the thought that people aren`t as free to discuss and share as when they are in a smaller group. Also all our church meetings run by organisations are open to the public. Must be different over your way.

Marilyn.

[Neighbor]

Hi, Yes evidently very different!

[Neighbor]

1 hour ago, Marilyn C said:

Must be different over your way.

That is also very enlightening, that government forces religious meeting to be open to their scrutiny today, is a very foreign thought to a citizen born at the USA. I had to stop and think about our USA history as a nation to remember it was not always  so free, that my ancestors came  to this land, fought and many died, for the right  to free and private gathering  especially  for worship of God without government intrusion and established that right per the first and fourteenth amendment to our USA constitution.

There is attempt by  Federal agencies especially the Internal Revenue Service to circumvent that freedom, but many if not most churches do not submit to becoming  what  is called a 501-C3 "nonprofit charity"  status, and instead simply declare to be church and therefore not under IRS  at all and instead are under protection from IRS intrusion by the USA constitution not required to accommodate the IRS and it's Federal administrative law rules.

[Neighbor]

1 hour ago, Marilyn C said:

people aren`t as free to discuss and share as when they are in a smaller group.

Hi yet again,

Large or small, a group is as free as the individual voices of it's separate members, the least  or lowest in standing having the same right of expression as the most responsible of leaders with their extra responsibility to our Lord.

Makes for some interesting sessions, meetings, and even informal gatherings. Also makes  for more than a casual study of Matthew 18 with God's commands for procedures regarding conflicts.