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10-29-2015, 07:14 PM
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Re: People Looking To Take Offense Will Find It
They look like slices of pizza to me. Satanic slices, but pizza nonetheless.
I'm hungry.
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10-29-2015, 07:15 PM
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Re: People Looking To Take Offense Will Find It
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Ok here's some honesty for ya. Your church's décor is of little concern to me, but it's doctrine is offensive to anyone with a love for truth.
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Good Lord.
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10-29-2015, 07:20 PM
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Re: People Looking To Take Offense Will Find It
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I don't know what Emma would think, http://livinginpatagonia.com/wp-cont...05/horns_1.jpg But my question is, why would any Christian want to decorate their sanctuary to look like a Rock Concert is going on rather than a church service. The pyramid drawings weren't the first thing I noticed by any means. |
Good night! If first century Christians showed up at your church---they wouldn't know what to think.
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When a newspaper posed the question, "What's Wrong with the World?" G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: "Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely Yours, G. K. Chesterton." That is the attitude of someone who has grasped the message of Jesus.
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10-29-2015, 07:22 PM
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Re: People Looking To Take Offense Will Find It
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Jeremiah 10:2-4
2. Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
I got a good idea. Since those are actually trees, you could decorate them in December with silver bells and golden balls, and lights and just worship the trees! After all there isn't a dumb pulpit in the way, who needs one of those antiquated things. 
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I've got a better idea: disappear.
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When a newspaper posed the question, "What's Wrong with the World?" G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: "Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely Yours, G. K. Chesterton." That is the attitude of someone who has grasped the message of Jesus.
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10-30-2015, 02:40 AM
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Isaiah 56:4-5
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Re: People Looking To Take Offense Will Find It
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Good Lord.
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Wow. He went there. I misread the first time as the doctrine being offensive to people that don't love truth.
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10-30-2015, 03:21 AM
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Re: People Looking To Take Offense Will Find It
The Pyramids of Cheops at Giza (the only possible pyramids anyone in the world cares about, that might be construed as Bible-related) are not isosceles triangles, as the pic CC1 shared, but rather, are equilateral in nature.
http://www.cheops-pyramide.ch/khufu-...u-numbers.html
To construe the things in the pic and some how relate them to Egypt and therefore to sin and bondage as a way to condemn the church and lose the righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit for a night over it all, is a monumental leap of super-spiritual unlogic.
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10-31-2015, 10:42 PM
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Re: People Looking To Take Offense Will Find It
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The Pyramids of Cheops at Giza (the only possible pyramids anyone in the world cares about, that might be construed as Bible-related) are not isosceles triangles, as the pic CC1 shared, but rather, are equilateral in nature.
http://www.cheops-pyramide.ch/khufu-...u-numbers.html
To construe the things in the pic and some how relate them to Egypt and therefore to sin and bondage as a way to condemn the church and lose the righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit for a night over it all, is a monumental leap of super-spiritual unlogic. |
Very well said. To draw the conclusion they drew was either willful ignorance or a mind so prejudiced that they would have found something to make offensive to cling to as a reason to dislike something different from what they are used to and how they do things.
As stated before I have no problem with anyone having doctrinal differences with my church and condemming us to hell for being one steppers. I also understand many folks won't like many things about the church like the decor, music, apparently the dim lights (I didn't see that one coming until I read the responses), etc. What I don't understand is the leap to make the church some kind of evil new age group.
We make it clear that Christ accepts us as we are but once we make him Lord of our lives we change because we have a new identity in Christ. We don't condone sin, easy believism, casual christianity, etc, etc. We proclaim that Jesus Christ is the only doorway to salvation and heaven. The infallability of the word of God, etc, etc. All things that are most certainly not "New Age".
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"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"
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11-01-2015, 01:09 AM
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Re: People Looking To Take Offense Will Find It
"Judge not and ye shall not be judged" either goes over people's heads, or more likely, under their feet.
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11-01-2015, 03:07 AM
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Isaiah 56:4-5
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Re: People Looking To Take Offense Will Find It
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Originally Posted by kclee4jc
Ok here's some honesty for ya. Your church's décor is of little concern to me, but it's doctrine is offensive to anyone with a love for truth.
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What an arrogant little jerk you have become.
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11-02-2015, 05:39 AM
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I could see how someone would mistake them for pyramids or trees. Mountains wouldn't be my first guest.
But I'm a Pentecostal, so there's that.
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