I don't see Ephesians 4:11-16 working in many of the Oneness churches. If this were happening, then people would be entering in as babes, maturing and then leaving out to preach, witness and evangelize and the churches would be growing larger.
Instead, when a church becomes a corporation, it tries to stop loss of income. Christ's body is supposed to be a free living breathing organism...thriving and beckoning others to join the bride. Instead, the church is being bogged down with mortgages, interest, insurance and other ropes and chains to bind it with so it is enslaved to the financial system.
Obeying a pastor is quenching the Holy Ghost in many many cases and stifling the growth of the church because we have little ant hill kingdoms instead of a unified body of Christ.
Too many churches that are bitter enemies.
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It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. (Psalms 118:8)
I don't see Ephesians 4:11-16 working in many of the Oneness churches. If this were happening, then people would be entering in as babes, maturing and then leaving out to preach, witness and evangelize and the churches would be growing larger.
Instead, when a church becomes a corporation, it tries to stop loss of income. Christ's body is supposed to be a free living breathing organism...thriving and beckoning others to join the bride. Instead, the church is being bogged down with mortgages, interest, insurance and other ropes and chains to bind it with so it is enslaved to the financial system.
Obeying a pastor is quenching the Holy Ghost in many many cases and stifling the growth of the church because we have little ant hill kingdoms instead of a unified body of Christ.
Thank you for the prayers everyone, I'm feeling a bit better today. I have a feeling it's because I have two days off work. I'm sorta feeling a bit like a leach, living off the prayers of others and worrying everyone, it's just tough holding in and holding in what you're feeling and no one knowing what's wrong. But I've managed to put back on my false smile, and my mind is made up, I'm going to prayer meeting tonight. No doubt everyone's going to want to know where I've been and what I've been doing, and I can't very well say, "Oh you know, manic depression, drug binge, losing faith, same old same old." So...meh. You know, you guys know a lot more about me and my mind than anyone I really KNOW. *Enter witty and clever closing statement here*
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1 John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Thank you for the prayers everyone, I'm feeling a bit better today. I have a feeling it's because I have two days off work. I'm sorta feeling a bit like a leach, living off the prayers of others and worrying everyone, it's just tough holding in and holding in what you're feeling and no one knowing what's wrong. But I've managed to put back on my false smile, and my mind is made up, I'm going to prayer meeting tonight. No doubt everyone's going to want to know where I've been and what I've been doing, and I can't very well say, "Oh you know, manic depression, drug binge, losing faith, same old same old." So...meh. You know, you guys know a lot more about me and my mind than anyone I really KNOW. *Enter witty and clever closing statement here*
I will continue praying for you as I know many on here will do as well. I hope you have a good Christian counselor / therapist you can talk to.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
I will continue praying for you as I know many on here will do as well. I hope you have a good Christian counselor / therapist you can talk to.
I've been trying to look for a free one or one that works with your income, I've been unable to find one in my area. Right now, my brothers and sisters in church, and this place is my therapy.
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1 John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
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