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1 | What do you like about the church? | Eph 2:22 | EdB | 118011 | ||
Noble What I like most about the church is God designed it, God controls it and God makes me happy. Are there things I like and dislike? Sure but I put them out of my mind, Paul teaches us to be content in all situations. Therefore for us to sit upon this forum and discuss what we like or dislike actually amounts to critiquing God. That is unless we believe the church is out of God control. Man tried to change the church (reformation) instead of changing anything they opened the door for nearly every wind of doctrine to fly in. I submit to you instead of discussing, arguing or making ourselves unhappy or happy about the state of the church if we would involve ourselves in fervent prayer the church would line up exactly the way God intended. What do I like about the church? God still in control. EdB |
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2 | What do you like about the church? | Eph 2:22 | Aixen7z4 | 118019 | ||
I will say “Amen” to that and turn this reserved statement into a full positive. God is in control, and God is doing a wonderful thing. Forgive me if I am repeating myself in quoting Psalm 118:23, but this is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. In the church, God who did the miracle of creation, is doing a million miracles today. “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ”. It took a miracle, to put the stars in place It took a miracle, to hang the worlds in space But when he saved a soul, cleansed and made it whole It took a miracle of love and grace And God is still saving people, all the time, and in that way he is building his church. And he is building it on his Son, Jesus Christ (Matthew 16:18). Jesus is the first Stone, the Corner Stone, and we also as lively stones are being added to it (1Pe 2:5). He gives us also the privilege of bringing others into it. We cannot save them, but we, and the Holy Spirit, working together, can bring them to him. Meanwhile, it is God who works in us both to will and to do this for his pleasure. This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. |
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3 | What do you like about the church? | Eph 2:22 | EdB | 118027 | ||
Noble I know you like to praise God. I'm curious why you seem to invent ways to do it in public. Again I'm talking behavior not your person here. I wonder if sometimes if you don't have a desire to have people view you differently than you actually are, again this is behavioral and nothing personal as you have taught me in past. You do worry me, it seems you have great dissatisfaction in the actual state your in and you try to enhance it or embellish using this forum. Why is that? Why is it you ask vague and leading questions and resent being asked to define them? Why is you refuse to limit your discussions to verifiable facts and always attempt to stray to perception, emotions and feelings. Is the real situation your in so awful you try to escape to this world of “what if”? EdB |
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4 | What do you like about the church? | Eph 2:22 | Aixen7z4 | 118039 | ||
Please, my brother. You are admitting you do not know me. (Please note that I did not say "your admitting"). You only know yourself. How could you possible know these things if they were not in your own heart? But to this extent I will answer your question: "What do you like about the church?" is not bout "perception, emotions and feelings". It is a matter of appreciating what the Bible says about it. We could try to look into that! Now, since you are into looking into hearts. Why don't you read Jeremiah 17:9, give up on the heart probing, and try to answer the simple question. Or maybe you'd just like to sit out this one. But I forgot. Why do I like to praise God in public? "I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God" (Psalm 69). My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad (Psalm 34). Amen. That's the truth. |
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