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Originally Posted by AJ Miller
Yeah I guess that’s one of the big contentions people have when mentioning the “Old Paths.” My local church isn’t involved with any of that; we mainly sing hymns, Gospel worship music is played in the service, we have tithe and offering, then we hear the Word preached with an altar call afterward.
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Well you gotta ask yourself....what old paths? How old are they and where did they originate?
Bro Billy Cole once said,"Some might say...well I got the HolyGhost down at the altar.....well you got it the Methodist way."
The point he wss making is that going to the "alter" as we know it began commonly in the Methodist movement which was a far cry from what it is today.
Let me just say this from the onset. God is real and God is good.
It can be a bit disconcerting however when you start the research history of standards and traditions...the enemy may try and harm your faith, in fact...you can be sure of it.
The questions you have come from a desire to know God and what you will also discover is that the answers you will find will reveal much about men and the nature of man.
You will read and hear information, facts and arguments and sometimes you will feel betrayed as if the information has been hidden from you but thats not always the case.
I started out extremely conservative and the more I discovered I became more liberal.
What I discovered is that conservative/liberal is two sides of the same coin of phariseeism.
I then sought God with my whole heart without agenda and with much fear...a Godly fear and now I follow things that would probably make both sides uncomfortable but are born out of using scripture in context.
We have good people here and we also have some snakes and even the good ones of us here can get a lil trollish and out of line because some of the discussions can just get plain stupid.
Take what you read here with a grain of salt. Dig in the Word to verify what you see and pray brother pray.
Truth more closely examined does not become any less of a measure of Truth.
Meaning dont be afraid to push back and test some things.
Paul called the Bereans noble for a reason....
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