Urgent News regarding persecution in Germany
 

http://www.churchofgod.net/wp-conten...9/marapr10.pdf


This is the Church of God ( Restoration ) Movement that came out of Guthrie, OK. Elder Danny Layne is their Bishop. I know several of their people and they are a dear bunch.Their standard is very similar to the one we have locally. Please pray for these dear folks.

Re: Urgent News regarding persecution in Germany
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/us/01homeschool.html

Don't know if they are related to the folk in your article but a couple weeks ago a federal judge allowed asylum to a couple from Germany.

Their crime for which they were facing prison? homeschooling their children !!!

God bless Judge Lawrence Burman, Memphis Immigration Judge for taking this unprecedented stand.

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Amen ! I read about that, these folks were not from the same group but it is good to see people helping anybody being persecuted for Faith.

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Of particular concern is the treatment millions of Muslims in Germany are facing. They must adopt what for many of them is an unacceptable "secular" and immodest style of dress and a curriculum that is almost always antithetical to their faith. These oppressed and persecuted people represent over 5% of the German population.

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Yisroelm, if they're church of God they're trinitarians, so they're lost anyway, right?;)

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Yisroelm, I found that to be a very interesting site (their homepage is churchofgod.net).

I feel drawn to groups like this - no doubt attributable to my own upbringing... I especially enjoy seeing these "plain people" praise and worship like Spirit filled people do.

I might not last long in a group like that though. It's not just the clothes that are black & white - their absolute rigidity of doctrine is troubling... On issues that I would hope to see acceptance or at least tolerance they have harsh words to say.

Concerning tongues "false doctrine of hell".

Veils: "erroneous teaching of a material head covering" they also seem to equate "long" and "uncut".

Fermented and unfermented wines are "Bad Wines" and "Good Wines"

Also, this is among their sacred doctrine: "We most emphatically believe and proclaim that we are living in the time of the “breaking of silence” (Rev. 8:1) and the sounding forth of the seventh trumpet (Rev. 11:15-19),"

Also, do you know their stance on D & R? Just curious - they don't seem to address it on the site, so I would guess they accept it, unlike the plain people I know.

Most of them (the articles) I like though, or at least understand why they would take the strong stance that they do. While I am not sure I agree in practice, it is an evil generation we live in... I myself still struggle in finding the balance - between the Mennonite separatists and the permissive modernists that apparently most Christians are.

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Yisro, do you know any of these people http://www.apostolicchristian.org/

They have an Anabaptist history too.

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Their doctrine is no divorce and remarriage under any circumstances.