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Subject: Visit other churches? |
Bible Note: Joe Let me jump in with a few thoughts. First let me say I’m from the Pentecostal camp, but I do agree with you, discernment (read don’t quench the spirit) is highly discouraged within the ranks. You can just about get away with anything saying, your under the ‘spirit’ and have people cheering you on. There is one such example where the speaker many times does nothing but laugh, of course laughter is contagious and soon the whole church is laughing, the word is rarely spoken within context, yet people swear this man is mighty man of God. As for your list of disguising God I see all of them the same, ways to manipulate people into giving more and to come back next week. In other words build a building rather than equip the saints to do the work. Unfortunately in our society success is judged by most by size, if your church isn’t large and growing God simply can’t be there, or is withholding His blessings for some reason. However many of these methods are used by both camps. That said I agree with Charis there seems to be two types of church goers, one that is attending due to an allegiance to a religious entity. And the another type that doesn’t carry any such allegiance. Neither type is necessarily wrong but the first type has a tendency to become myopic and intolerant for anything other than their view of religion. The later has a tendency of often following every wind of doctrine. That said I also believe either group can be guilty of the problem you mentioned in your last paragraph. Many times the scriptures are abused to prove a point rather than used to seek an answer. There are intelligent, learned, dedicated, and honest men on both sides of today’s religious issues. To say one has a handle the other is missing is wrong. Instead both should seek and understand what it is, they evidently are not seeing in scripture that the other side is. Then once they have that understanding seek a solution that addresses both sides of the issue. Instead we sit back very confidently and assume the other is just wrong. Be blessed and be a blessing EdB |