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To: NKP_Vet

He literally drew me, physically, away from church... I was attending an orthodox presbyterian church at the time and enjoying the teachings and fellowship and was actually on my way to membership..

But at the same time He drew me away from church, He drew me closer to Him..

And what I have learned in just these two years since is not learned in church, nor practiced in church (or the world)...it isnt earthly based..

It is like the earthly church and the worldly systems it follows is foreign to the what scripture says the Kingdom will be like..

And I have to admit, I prefer preparing for His True coming Kingdom reign than being a member of any earthly counterfeit following traditions of men..

People may leave the ‘church’ for different reasons.
I have Him as my reason..

that isn’t explainable to people who have been members of a church or denomination for almost their whole life...

I am one who has never been a member of any physical church., and the one time I was on that path happily, He stopped me...

HalleluYah!


35 posted on 07/23/2014 9:36:55 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: delchiante

I doubt God would draw you away from obedience to His own word. We are under instruction from Scripture to not forsake the assembling of ourselves together. Furthermore, doing all that Jesus taught, as you say, is impossible apart from the community of fellow believers. We are given an extraordinary example of this, well before Paul entered the scene, in Acts, where we see the assembly Jesus created gathering regularly for teaching, sharing lives, sharing through bread and wine the remembrance of Christ, prayer, and so much more, all enlivened and directed by the Holy Spirit acting through Jesus’ apostles. To say that God would lead some individual to reject all that is to say the impossible. God’s mind is not divided.


40 posted on 07/23/2014 10:28:03 AM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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