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Re: UPC General Conference updates
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Originally Posted by Ron
I agree 100% with what you are saying, & only part with the part in bold.
I don't think it is a total separation issue as it is a love of comfort.
I read a book recently where the author compares the North American Church with Laodicea, it is rich & increased with goods & yet it is naked & poor.
Jesus commended two Churches in the book of Revelation, Smyrna the persecuted Church, and Philadelphia the faithful Church.
Both were not Mega Churches, not wealthy at all.
Compare that to Laodicia a rich and seemingly prosperous Church, that God called to repentance.
We need to be a soul wining Church for sure, myself included!
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Good points, Ron, and I would agree. I definitely think the "comfort level" is a HUGE part of our inactivity in 2008.
But, also comfort is tied to separation in some cases. Only speaking from personal experience here, but people who are living by a certain code get very comfortable with that code, and they become content with the fact that they have fulfilled their obligation and "paid their dues" for the Lord by being separate - not realizing that reaching the lost is our main mission.
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