Mike Mclees Posted August 4, 2023 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 158 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 1,915 Content Per Day: 0.80 Reputation: 910 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/15/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted August 4, 2023 (edited) Have you ever wondered How the Lord sees His modern-day church looking down from above being a multitude of systems, orders, denominations, beliefs, ideals, doctrines, and many mixed with worldliness ? How will He know who His true bride is? Will he have a favorite? How will you know which church to attend? This might be the most difficult time of your life. Of course we want the church that makes us feel the most idealistically comfortable. Has Christianity become just another religion amongst many? Should we be Catholic or Protestant? Is this not confusion? I Do not believe he will find His bride in any of this, But He will find His bride amongst them. So yes choose your church wisely letting the Holy Spirit be your guide. Know this that we are first His bride personally. God bless Edited August 4, 2023 by Mike Mclees 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FJK Posted August 4, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 43 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 3,349 Content Per Day: 7.73 Reputation: 1,305 Days Won: 1 Joined: 03/01/2023 Status: Offline Share Posted August 4, 2023 Don't seek out a Church with itching ears, one that tells you what you want to hear to make you feel good about living a prodigal life in place of a righteous one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted August 4, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 958 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,646 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,084 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted August 4, 2023 1 hour ago, Mike Mclees said: Have you ever wondered How the Lord sees His modern-day church looking down from above being a multitude of systems, orders, denominations, beliefs, ideals, doctrines, and many mixed with worldliness ? How will He know who His true bride is? Will he have a favorite? How will you know which church to attend? This might be the most difficult time of your life. Of course we want the church that makes us feel the most idealistically comfortable. Has Christianity become just another religion amongst many? Should we be Catholic or Protestant? Is this not confusion? I Do not believe he will find His bride in any of this, But He will find His bride amongst them. So yes choose your church wisely letting the Holy Spirit be your guide. Know this that we are first His bride personally. God bless Hi, Answers to the questions asked: No. He knows. Yes likely he will. The Holy Spirit has always directed (Me) to the right place for the right time to be there. I expect He always will. Again no. When called go. No, it is not confusion. Yeshua has always known His bride for it was betrothed him by His Father from before the beginning; it is predestined, foreknown, and He loses not a one given Him by His Father. I do not select "my" church at all. God does. He has selected local bodies of His Son's church for me through the agency of God the Holy Spirit. In short there is no Valley Of Confusion, for me at least, but instead there is a banquet laid out for me to be comforted at and fed well, though I too may walk in the Valley of the Shadow of death.... No reason exists for me to fear evil, but every reason to rejoice now as well as for the tomorrows to come. May God bless you and many that come here to WCF greatly as well; "Unity in the majors, liberty in the minors". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdHoc Posted August 4, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 4 Topic Count: 10 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 3,051 Content Per Day: 3.31 Reputation: 1,460 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/29/2021 Status: Offline Share Posted August 4, 2023 1 hour ago, Mike Mclees said: Have you ever wondered How the Lord sees His modern-day church looking down from above being a multitude of systems, orders, denominations, beliefs, ideals, doctrines, and many mixed with worldliness ? How will He know who His true bride is? Will he have a favorite? How will you know which church to attend? This might be the most difficult time of your life. Of course we want the church that makes us feel the most idealistically comfortable. Has Christianity become just another religion amongst many? Should we be Catholic or Protestant? Is this not confusion? I Do not believe he will find His bride in any of this, But He will find His bride amongst them. So yes choose your church wisely letting the Holy Spirit be your guide. Know this that we are first His bride personally. God bless I think you have touched a hot issue. A study of the new Testament will show what God wants with His "Ekklesia". I'm going to use that Greek word because in the "Valley of Confusion" some people think "Church" is a building and some think it is a "Denomination". Once the facts are examined, I think you will even doubt the validity of a carefully chosen Assembly. When man started to multiply after the Deluge, he developed his own religion. The result was Babel - which means "confusion"! Let's test and see if man has not taken the Ekklesia and made it a "confusion". The Ekklesia is a New Creature with no past (2nd Cor.5:17). It knows no race and/or tadition (Gal.3:28, Col.3:11). What then is a - Presbyterian, or a Messianic Jew? Is this not a confusion - The Ekklesia exists because a grain of "Wheat" fell into the earth and died (Jn.12:24). That is, its birth is in death, and all its members are IN Christ and CAME OUT of Christ. Every Believer has ONE Head, One Master and One SUPPLY, and was BORN of One Spirit. So, from where do all the exotic names come from? Is this not a confusion? - The stated way of building up men and women to the standard of Christ in Ephesians 4 is (i) to keep the established UNITY, (ii) receive Gifts from the ascended Lord, (iii)use these gifts to supply what the head has supplied by speaking. In 45 years I have been allowed to speak in less than 6 Assemblies. How will the Ekklesia be built - by rock music? - God requires that we live by faith. he only gave the Ekklesia THREE SIGNS; (i) Baptism, (ii) The Lord's Commemorative Table, and (head-covering for women when they pray or prophesy in the meeting. All three are energetically resisted - The Lord gave ONE ASSEMBLY for ONE LOCATION. He promised "Elders" to that LOCALITY. Multiple Houses where to be used as meeting places. - One Eldership was required. No Name was given. In the average city of 500,000 plus people, up to 200 Meetings exist, each avoiding the others, and each having it own name and own Elders. The Bible knows ONE Assembly per Locality with One Eldership. The Confusion is COMPLETE! - But no! Hebrews Chapter 5 going into 6 accuses the Hebrews of immaturity because they still are not settled on the foundational things of the Church and its Head - Jesus. On this Forum nearly no deep things are discussed. The majority of themes are foundational in nature and there are nearly as many opinions as Believers. - The Ekklesia sets great worth on sound doctrine. Assemblies regularly split because of doctrine. Universities split into multiple universaties. 1st Corinthians Chapter 1 and 3 say that if you split, though you are correct - YOU ARE CARNAL - In Revelation Chapters 2 and 3, our Lord toured His Ekklesia. Of SEVEN, two are praised and the rest are rebuked. The major sign of the end of the age is APOSTACY in the Church - What a confusion? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vine Abider Posted August 4, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 6 Topic Count: 201 Topics Per Day: 0.36 Content Count: 3,464 Content Per Day: 6.20 Reputation: 2,319 Days Won: 3 Joined: 10/25/2022 Status: Offline Birthday: 04/01/2024 Share Posted August 4, 2023 2 hours ago, Mike Mclees said: Have you ever wondered How the Lord sees His modern-day church looking down from above being a multitude of systems, orders, denominations, beliefs, ideals, doctrines, and many mixed with worldliness ? How will He know who His true bride is? Will he have a favorite? How will you know which church to attend? This might be the most difficult time of your life. Of course we want the church that makes us feel the most idealistically comfortable. Has Christianity become just another religion amongst many? Should we be Catholic or Protestant? Is this not confusion? I Do not believe he will find His bride in any of this, But He will find His bride amongst them. So yes choose your church wisely letting the Holy Spirit be your guide. Know this that we are first His bride personally. God bless Your view is shared by a number on here, as I'm sure you know! And there are a few threads related to this going on here now (again, as you may know). I was lamenting to a close brother the state of the church a while back. This brother listened and then replied, "Do you not think the Lord knew about all this mess we've made when He said He would build His ekklesia? He is well able and sees what we don't - a glorious church without spot or wrinkle!" I realized at that point that I was seeing with my eyes and not my spirit of faith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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