Core Essentials of Our One Faith (for fellowshipping with others)?

[farouk]

21 minutes ago, Neighbor said:

What walls out tends to also wall in. Kind of works against the command to go into all the world with the gospel of Jesus,  building opportunities for inviting people into fellowship under Jesus through the uniting  by the Holy Spirit.

But hey do "we" really want those kind anyway?

 

Hi @Neighbor While there are constraints of doctrine and holiness about fellowship, Paul does show a generous and comprehensive attitude towards others in the faith, in 1 Corinthians 1.1-3:

 

"Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

² Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's:

³ Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ."

[NConly]

13 minutes ago, Neighbor said:

What walls out tends to also wall in. Kind of works against the command to go into all the world with the gospel of Jesus,  building opportunities for inviting people into fellowship under Jesus through the uniting  by the Holy Spirit.

But hey do "we" really want those kind anyway?

 

I guess it was dumb of me to give the impression the walls have no Gates. So adding Gates would allow for people to move about.  Which people is the question

Remember this

Matt 10

14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

2 Corin 6

14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

[farouk]

4 minutes ago, NConly said:

I guess it was dumb of me to give the impression the walls have no Gates. So adding Gates would allow for people to move about.  Which people is the question

Remember this

Matt 10

14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

2 Corin 6

14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

@NConly Apt and relevant verses there, yes.

People often look at the outward and organizational. Really the emphasis should be on the inward and spiritual.

[Neighbor]

6 minutes ago, farouk said:

Paul does show a generous and comprehensive attitude towards others in the faith,

Hi, Yes in attitude and in actual action and declaration. To the jew he became as a Jew  to the Gentile as a gentile, but always to further the gospel of Jesus. He always stayed in a core essential - do all that is done to the glory of God.

[farouk]

4 minutes ago, Neighbor said:

Hi, Yes in attitude and in actual action and declaration. To the jew he became as a Jew  to the Gentile as a gentile, but always to further the gospel of Jesus. He always stayed in a core essential - do all that is done to the glory of God.

It's interesting that in principle Paul was very hostile to compulsory circumcision since it would undermine the Gospel by insisting on the supposed merit of law-keeping. But then Paul also circumcised Timothy, not because it would do him any good inherently, but because if Jews knew he was circumcised, more of them might listen to his testimony of the Gospel.

[Truswell]

 

Keep looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

[NConly]

11 minutes ago, Truswell said:

 

Keep looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

Thanking him every day for

Phil 1:

6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

[farouk]

9 minutes ago, NConly said:

Thanking him every day for

Phil 1:

6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

@NConly A really significant verse, indeed; in fact I quoted it today elsewhere in another context. It reminds me of Acts 16.14: 'Lydia, whose heart the Lord opened', showing that first and foremost the Lord must begin a work in the heart at the new birth (John 1.7) before any eternal blessing can result.

[farouk]

23 minutes ago, Truswell said:

 

Keep looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

I often think of Hebrews 12.2, indeed..............

[Truswell]

6 hours ago, farouk said:

I often think of Hebrews 12.2, indeed..............

Heb 12:2

Looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 

To look at someone or something means we are not seeing anything else. So let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus.