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1 | No Joyce Meyer?????????????????? | Acts 17:11 | CDBJ | 72074 | ||
Hi Joe, I liked your post but that last part, in my estimation, could use a little emphasis in the right direction. The fact that someone can call oneself a Christian and at the same time claim to have control over God is a clear sign of why reformation is so desperately needed in the 21st-century church. Calling oneself a Christian doesn’t necessarily make it so, and I think what is needed in the 21st. century is the same thing that has been needed in every century, and that is a personal relationship with the person of Jesus Christ, which carries with it an attitude adjustment. Nice post, CDBJ |
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2 | No Joyce Meyer?????????????????? | Acts 17:11 | Reformer Joe | 72076 | ||
"Calling oneself a Christian doesn?t necessarily make it so..." My point exactly. "...and I think what is needed in the 21st. century is the same thing that has been needed in every century, and that is a personal relationship with the person of Jesus Christ, which carries with it an attitude adjustment." That is what it looks like at the individual level, and collectively among God's people that is what we call reformation and revival. It is true that it is needed in every century. Luther said the church should always be "semper reformanda" -- always reforming -- because our tendency is to wander away from the truth. As God's people, we must constantly return to the gospel of of the grace of God, because the "idol factories" we call our hearts are constantly prone to water down, minimize, or distort the truth. And for the church's neglect in doing this, I believe that we are in serious danger of facing God's judgment. Jesus Christ has "removed His lampstand" in the past for far less than some of what I see on the landscape of American Christendom. Very soon, we are going to see one of two things here in the United States: collective repentance or the rod. --Joe! |
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