Posted on 08/21/2019 1:01:13 PM PDT by lightman
...’The falling away will continue’....
Indeed it will...the Great Apostasy and the Great Deception are in play in a world ready to deceive itself.
Maybe if your church is little more than a branch of the Democrat Party, with a bit of religious stuff thrown in, why not go directly to political activism since that is really the main thing for leftists and don’t be bothered with even nominal religious values?
Lose scripture, lose people. The old dead denominations love death.
You make my point. Thank you. The Chritian Church of Jesus Christ is universal, ibique, ubique, ab ominibus. Since the protestants only started dividing in 1517 thats means they only catholic or ibique, ubique et omnibus christian structure is what is now called by the proper name of Catholic with capital C.
That just seems incorrect to me. Based only upon the size of the crowds I see in the parking lots of two separate Evangelical type churches, those two have grown to or past capacity. One is a "Pflugerville Community Church", the other is a (???) Calvary Church. They regularly fill up and overflow their parking lots. I don't notice that much growth (if any) in the local mainline denominations.
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They probably bow down and worship their Liberal Fake News Newspapers as their source of inspiration. Sermon materials are probably based on it with a few cherry picked scriptures taken out of context to make it appear Biblical.
They probably bow down and worship their Liberal Fake News Newspapers as their source of inspiration. Sermon materials are probably based on it with a few cherry picked scriptures taken out of context to make it appear Biblical.
H-e-double hockey sticks.
We joined a Disciples of Christ here in Georgia. It is an extremely small congregation but have been in existence for 135 years. That is the first I have heard that this church supports SJW agendas!
All I can say is that it is an extremely small and very conservative congregation and a Christ centered church.
Thank you for saving me the bother.
I was very surprised. The church I grew up in is gone.
DoC ping. Not the DoC I grew up in many years ago. The left-wingers have full control in Indianapolis.
So sorry.
There are churches which had played a significant roll in my spiritual formation which have become the prey of Satan—always distressing to realize you can’t go back home.
So it would seem.
I’m a life long member of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The individual congregations select their own ministers as opposed to having them assigned by either the region or Indianapolis. Last fall I left the congregation were I was a member for 31 years because I moved from the east coast back to Indiana. We had an excellent pastor and I miss him. He never talked politics from the pulpit, just the gospel. He was selected by the congregation and proved to be an excellent choice. The national leadership is far to the left of most of the folks at Bethany.
I rejoined the congregation I grew up in here in Indiana. I’m slowly getting use to the pastor here. Her sermons are fairly good. The congregation is an older one and unfortunately went through a split a few years ago, over what, in my opinion was a poor selection of 2 consecutive ministers. I was visiting one Sunday and nearly walked out when the minister did a direct attack on those of us who chose to serve in the military.
Blessings to all. G-F
Christian Church as a denomination is one of three “daughters” of the Restoration Movement which began in the 1830s: Church of Christ (non-instrumental, located largely in the South); Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, largely mid-west; and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), geographic center unknown.
If you go to a Christian Church, ask someone in charge if there is a connection to the Restoration Movement. If not, it may just be a garden variety community Bible church.
Conservative evangelical numbers are slightly up.
It is the liberal denoms who continue to free fall. As they should.
It seems many leave them to join the “nones.” Which is more honest.
Yew must be goin ta a good baaaah-ble based church.
I had to leave a couple of those before I found this one. They will at least listen to me when I talk of the divine council and Conditional immortality (my belief system). They even let me teach Sunday school and play bass in the worship band and do their Jail ministry visitations. :)
https://www.thedivinecouncil.com/
https://www.jewishnotgreek.com/
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