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01-18-2016, 09:42 PM
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Re: Numerical Growth Is Not A Sign Of Revival...
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Plus I have changed alot of what I believed so that makes it hard some times.
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That's not hard, that is bewildering, and if you have children, problematic.
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01-18-2016, 09:47 PM
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Re: Numerical Growth Is Not A Sign Of Revival...
Like I said, not a lot options. Don't want to do the lone Ranger thing, but if they find out what I believe I might not have a choice.
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01-18-2016, 09:55 PM
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Re: Numerical Growth Is Not A Sign Of Revival...
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Like I said, not a lot options. Don't want to do the lone Ranger thing, but if they find out what I believe I might not have a choice.
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Unless you are going to the Watchtower, or some Cult you will have nothing to worry about. In churches believing contrary to the group only becomes an issue to the leadership when you start to push your beliefs on the rest of the group. If you keep your opinions to yourself then all is well, and you suffer in silence.
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"all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
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01-18-2016, 10:03 PM
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Re: Numerical Growth Is Not A Sign Of Revival...
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The issue at my church is fake infillings. 40 in one tent revival and don't see most again. Hype and crowd manipulation is the order of the day here.
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Let us fast and pray and seek the Lord together for a change!
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01-18-2016, 10:06 PM
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Re: Numerical Growth Is Not A Sign Of Revival...
I've become convinced that we ought not to baptise anyone unless they understand they are committing to serve Christ as a member of the Body.
'And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.'
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01-18-2016, 10:30 PM
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Re: Numerical Growth Is Not A Sign Of Revival...
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I've become convinced that we ought not to baptise anyone unless they understand they are committing to serve Christ as a member of the Body.
'And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.'
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Elder, you are ONE HUNDRED percent correct!!!!! 
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01-18-2016, 10:42 PM
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Re: Numerical Growth Is Not A Sign Of Revival...
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Elder, you are ONE HUNDRED percent correct!!!!! |
Must be the Campbellite in me...?
Just kidding. Seriously though, I really feel we see a lot of the problems we see in the churches due to faulty evangelism, that is, we sell people tickets to heaven just like the Baptists (ours just happen to be wetter). As a result people get caught up in the myth of a personal relationship with God and have no clue about their role in the Body.
In fact, I wasted a lot of years precisely because of that. I was never taught what the church actually is, and what 'being saved' actually meant - it means being added to the household of God, a real, actual, definite household... called the church.
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Re: Numerical Growth Is Not A Sign Of Revival...
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Must be the Campbellite in me...?
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"all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
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01-18-2016, 10:56 PM
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Re: Numerical Growth Is Not A Sign Of Revival...
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Ha!
You know they have a production plant about 30 miles away. When I first went by it I thought it was a refinery until I saw the entrance and the signs.
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01-18-2016, 10:59 PM
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Re: Numerical Growth Is Not A Sign Of Revival...
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Ha!
You know they have a production plant about 30 miles away. When I first went by it I thought it was a refinery until I saw the entrance and the signs.
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Seriously?
You need to take a tour and see how they make that stuff. 
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