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NASB | 2 John 1:10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 John 1:10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching [but diminishes or adds to the doctrine of Christ], do not receive or welcome him into your house, and do not give him a greeting or any encouragement; |
Subject: Is asking for money false? |
Bible Note: Thank you Brad! I personally think that I was just the lightening rod for the strike that was going to come anyway to someone. Really I just feel like "What was that?????" I fellowship at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa CA. As a church, we have been used by the Lord to plant over 1400 churches, in nearly every country of the world. We have sent out hundreds of missionaries, have established several Bible Colleges including Russia and Romania, and our newest will also include an orphanage in Brazil. We have established an international radio network (CSN) with not only our church's teaching, but other churches as well. We have active home fellowships, probibly 25 weekly large group Bible studies, and many small discipleship, fellowship, and prayer groups. We give clothing to the forest fire victims, and turkeys to the poor at thanksgiving and Christmas. We are sending a team to provide finacial and physical assistance to the tsunami victims. We established "For Zion's Sake" at Calvary Chapel Jerusalem, supplying the material needs of ingathered Jews. We have sent, with our own couriers, literally hundreds of thousands of Bibles into China. Our internet resources are access by millions, including books on doctine, commentary, and our Pastor Chuck's sermons for the past 12 years of verse by verse teaching, and without cost. Of course, I say "we", but I really mean He! Praise Him!!! It is the LORD Who has done this through us, all bought with money, with the world's money, using the world's internet, and the world's radios, and so on. We go to work and we go to church and we do our best and that seems like very little, but God is incredible, going so far beyond our dreams! I rejoice in the way our Lord redeems us, and not only us, but what we had previously squandered on our own pleasures, now He uses it (our resources) to His glory, and then gives us eternal reward! Thank you for your kind words, and your encouragement, as others also have been encouraging to me. And especially, thank you for your lucid and meaningful posts! ;-) Love in Christ, Mark |