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If you wonder if your church is a Bible teaching, Bible preaching church, give the following tests:

1. Sit outside and watch how many of the people carry Bibles to church.

2. Are the sermons based on a Bible text or the latest headlines in the news.

3. Ask the pastor or a teacher a doctrinal question. Do they start their answers with "The Bible teaches........"

4. Does the Pastor encourage you to study the Scripture texts on your own and encourage you to pray to the Holy Spirit for guidance?

Some simple things to watch for when your are looking for a Bible believing, Bible teaching church.

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If you wonder if your church is a Bible teaching, Bible preaching church, give the following tests:

1. Sit outside and watch how many of the people carry Bibles to church.

2. Are the sermons based on a Bible text or the latest headlines in the news.

3. Ask the pastor or a teacher a doctrinal question. Do they start their answers with "The Bible teaches........"

4. Does the Pastor encourage you to study the Scripture texts on your own and encourage you to pray to the Holy Spirit for guidance?

Some simple things to watch for when your are looking for a Bible believing, Bible teaching church.

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The 5th check point would be..... RUN from anybody who claims to be a "fundamentalist"...!

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Put the Word in your heart by reading it at home then Holy Spirit will bring rememberance of it to you and bare witness of it at church!

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If you wonder if your church is a Bible teaching, Bible preaching church, give the following tests:

1. Sit outside and watch how many of the people carry Bibles to church.

2. Are the sermons based on a Bible text or the latest headlines in the news.

3. Ask the pastor or a teacher a doctrinal question. Do they start their answers with "The Bible teaches........"

4. Does the Pastor encourage you to study the Scripture texts on your own and encourage you to pray to the Holy Spirit for guidance?

Some simple things to watch for when your are looking for a Bible believing, Bible teaching church.

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The 5th check point would be..... RUN from anybody who claims to be a "fundamentalist"...!

:angel:

And why do you say that?????

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If you wonder if your church is a Bible teaching, Bible preaching church, give the following tests:

1. Sit outside and watch how many of the people carry Bibles to church.

2. Are the sermons based on a Bible text or the latest headlines in the news.

3. Ask the pastor or a teacher a doctrinal question. Do they start their answers with "The Bible teaches........"

4. Does the Pastor encourage you to study the Scripture texts on your own and encourage you to pray to the Holy Spirit for guidance?

Some simple things to watch for when your are looking for a Bible believing, Bible teaching church.

Eph writes...

The 5th check point would be..... RUN from anybody who claims to be a "fundamentalist"...!

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Eph--Do you also balance your checkbook without having first learned the FUNDAMENTALS of Math?  Such as addition and subtraction?

Im afraid you're too hung up on trying to smear those who believe in the FUNDAMENTALs of the Doctrine of Christ, which happen to be the very foundation for salvation. Without that, you're just rolling around on a log in the middle of a river, and eventually you'll fall into the water and drowned.

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The term fundamentalist has definetly fallen into ill repute these days. It actually does not mean terrorist, LOL. The Baptist group we came from used to call themselves fighting fundamentalists which did not mean what you may think it means. It means that they stuck to the fundamentals of the faith and shot their own wounded, or those who don't agree with them (not literally though). They also tended to be legalistic on appearance issues. Does this sound anything like an Islamic fundamentalist? I don't think so, so be careful when you attack those fundamentalist Christians. You may not agree with them (I don't on everything) but most are still brothers and sisters in Christ whom we will have to share heaven with.

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Great thread JohnJack.  One question however.  Is there any mention in the Bible instructing anyone to pray to the Holy Spirit?  

Also, as Lanakila pointed out, fundamentalists tend to be legalistic.  That was not always and should not be the case.  We are to be sound in our doctrinal beliefs and we are to be evangelists to the world.  Legalism usually gives the world justification for not wanting to be like us.

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great thread johnjack.

another thought ... does that bible-church teach what the apostles taught?

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follower,

Are you Lynne (InHisLove)?

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Evidently follower doesn't want to answer that question.

Tell me, follower, why would anybody go to church without a Bible?  For social reasons, for the kids, for the spouse......because they're reciting from the catechism? :angel:

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