Posted on 08/28/2016 2:41:41 PM PDT by Salvation
This is true, but it is a good way to meet together in a building, a common meeting place that can also bless the community surrounding it. Even in the poorest countries in the world you find them meeting in “church buildings” they may not have roofs or even walls but they are a common place to worship, I have seen this first hand as well as home churches due to persecution.
Every change to the Catholic mass has been something that makes me less and less want to attend. When I don’t go it is out of laziness or in the way of something else I want to do, bad as that sounds.
But the latest fiasco is to make every prayer a difficult song. It is bad enough I can no longer say the prayers I used to because I hate singing at church, but the songs are so difficult to sing, only the choir is singing them anymore.
What happened to songs like “They will know we are Christians by our Love” which was at least very easy to sing.
I think the Vatican is as filled with traitors as the US government is, and the enemies within are trying to destroy both institutions from within. I honestly do. It is getting harder and harder to believe in mass and want to attend. I want to attend mass but everything they have done the past 25 years puts me off more and more and more.
Oh boo freaking hoo. Many of the families at our Latin Mass parish drive an hour each way...some even an hour and a half. We leave the house at 9, get back in the afternoon depending on how long we stay and chat.
You make it a priority, and then everything else falls into place around it.
The Pastors, Priests, and preachers are now ESPN's taking heads.
The new "God" is the National Football League.
Orthodox Christians generally don’t eat breakfast before church, if you are receiving communion. No dishes to wash! LOL! We have coffee hour afterwards. Our church is small, and we generally enjoy each other’s company. I feel like something is missing in my life if I don’t go to church. It just depends on your priorities. It’s easy to get out of the habit of going to church.
There will always be bad clergy/pastors, as well as hypocrites in churches. The Church should be a hospital for us, not a court of law.
“Merry Christmas and happy Ramadan” from the pulpit did it for me. Churches and the clergy have lost their way.
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>> “ A few hundred years ago, European and American intellectuals began doubting the validity of God as an explanatory mechanism for natural life.” <<
I don’t expect to bump into any “intellectuals” at the Last Trump.
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If you are unwilling to challenge every doctrine that is pushed off on you by testing it against the word, you will be destroyed for real by he who created us.
That was the apostle John's admonition to us.
“Try the spirits, whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”
1John 4:1
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Agree 100%
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thanks :)
Sent you a PM.
There is a story of the man whose son was about to be healed. After a doubt and Jesus’s objection, the man said “I believe, help my unbelief” see Mark 9:24.
So pray to God for more faith. He grants it, Php. 1:29
See also Eph. 4:7, 1Jn. 5:13, 1Cor. 10:13
I’m on a tight schedule so may not get back soon.
The Churchs either forgot which day is the Lords Day or they changed it to Sunday. But the Commandment itself is still valid.
If there's a chance previously unanswered questions will reinforce your personal faith in the Lord, there is no greater quest in this life. NOTHING nor anyone should stop you, nor should you fear ridicule with such your sincerity to feel closer to God.
JMHO.
Jesus embraces gays too, although he probably doesn't condone their behaviour.
If the ELCA condones their behaviour, then that is something else.
All mankind is flawed,
Yes, that's why we need a Saviour to "embrace" us.
Why accept someone else’s flawed interpretation?
No need. Go to the source and let Him interpret things for you.
Yeah, and I hope it is true.
The LCMS is corrupted as the rest. The church exists to provide jobs for the clergy, who are otherwise useless.
The brush of ignorance, I see. I left because of the "Merry Christmas and happy Ramadan" from the pulpit.
Which changes? The Vatican II changes? (they were 40+ years ago). Or the more recent ones to the texts of the prayers?
Because if the Vatican II changes put you off, there are more and more places to find the traditional Mass, which kicks the stuffing out of any newfangled liturgy they are doing nowadays.
Mad as a hatter.
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