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Here is the Old Landmark I like to remember....When He brought me out of a pit and placed me in His Church in Him - on a Solid Rock.
Take Me Back....Take Me Back, Dear Lord, to the place where I first believed. What a Landmark that was and is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPoHNPGoC6A |
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Does not mean, that everything we were taught was essential, to the salvation message. In my church today, women do dress like women and men like men. The interesting thing, the women do not look 20 years older than their age. They have a youthful and spiritual glow about them. They have not lost their travailing prayers, and their spiritual countenance is alive. I remember the 40 years spent thinking, that every woman needed to look like a portait of the "Mona Lisa". My thoughts are we can celebrate those who hold onto standards and those who don't. But we should drop the label of "Holiness Standards". They should be labeled "Standards of Penance". |
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The problem has been many churches took to crucifying good folks. |
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There are no open conversations. |
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God may convict us but He will not condemn us. Because we "feel" condemned by something does not mean that something is wrong. We are to go by the Word, not by our feelings. I just read a note I had written in my Bible next to 1 John 5:10-13: D.L. Moody (1837-1899) said, "I believe hundreds of Christians are being deceived by satan now on this point. They don't have the assurance of salvation just because they are not willing to take God at His Word." A former pastor of mine (who was UPC District Superintendent of Ohio) told us a story about when he was young. He was going to a Nazarene Church which preached strict adherence to "rules." They taught that we under the New Testament were supposed to obey certain parts of the Old Testament law such as the 10 commandments, but they taught that Sunday was now the sabbath. Since Sunday was the sabbath it was a sin to do any work on the sabbath and a sin to pay someone else to work on the sabbath so paying for a bus ride or buying anything on Sunday was wrong. He was going to a storefront church. One Sunday he and a friend were looking at a large pulpit Bible in their church. It was open to a passage in Hebrews and was marked about committing the "unpardonable" sin. It was a very hot day and they had quite a distance to walk to get home. It would have been a sin to ride a bus because they would be paying someone to work and causing that person to sin. So they walked the long distance toward home. Of course they were dressed in clothes that did not make the journey any easier. Finally, in desperation they stopped at a store that was open and bought an ice cream cone --a sin because they were paying someone to desecrate the sabbath by working. As soon as he took that first lick of ice cream he became very "convicted" and realized he had committed the "unpardonable sin." Now where did that "conviction" or "condemnation" come from? |
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How many do not practice some form of Birth control today? |
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I hope he sticks around. Maybe he will be pleasantly surprised. |
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If we want to call ourselves "Apostolic" shouldn't our landmarks be those that were set up by the original apostles?
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