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What is our manner? Are we to judge who a person is? �NO!� On the other hand we ARE indeed to �judge� our fellow brethren�s or leader�s character. If lacking in character, �how they do and what they do or their manner� is the key. The point: A person may look the part, and on the inside have the wrong motive. Having the wrong motive, he may know what to do, but impatience in spirit keeps him from doing or being what he or she needs to be toward him or herself and toward others. For what reason? These generations of ministers are taught to �have� a Church, rather than BE the Church! My warning to all is: �Be Aware!� A great falling away came as the Old Testament times came to an end; regardless of God�s Love toward His chosen people, they perished by their religion from the lack of what? It wasn�t from the lack of their religious participation but from the lack of Knowledge! - Knowledge of Righteousness or how to rightly relate by God�s Spirit so as to live their lives trusting God for all theirs and other�s needs. Christ grew up in and among these religion-minded men who went out of their way to have church, and when he presented them with the truth (they looked the part but didn�t have the knowledge of righteousness), they took it upon themselves to eliminate Him accusing him of being against the church. The time has come to stop �WONDERING� why there are so many different kinds of churches and start BELIEVING what IS WRITTEN in the Bible. You may be comfortable through physical participation in a church and be void of �knowledge� of what the Bible is teaching that Worshiping a Religious ideal or philosophy can be a form of IDOLITRY.
In church and in Bible School and then participating in great ministries, this is the �ONE� question out of all questions that all men choose NOT to answer because it, if answered, leaves them in a mind-set of great �humility� of this TRUTH. UNITY of all Christians is a matter of their Character/Spirit, (not that of Religion) in which they have chosen to serve! Confusion by Religion cannot be your excuse so as to wait and see. All are called to Christ. If you find your self in fear of "how" in the world you are going to get you and your children into YOUR CHURCH or RELIGION, then MOVE IT! My point: �Move It� to put God first and he will honor all prayers in bringing those you love into an understanding that He loves us all! We want to MOVE to the Bible Truths� that tell you NOT WHAT men and women BELONG TO, BUT �WHO� THEY BELONG TO! Do you first �belong� to God before you belong to men through fellowships or to religious concepts through churches? I THINK SO! It� a JOY to KNOW or have knowledge� and can be to your children and their children that they may never find themselves at peace in any Church, but they CAN IN CHRIST, and HIM ALONE! Even better� when you can have fellowship with others that are �Like Minded�, but in that order! Here is the paradox when people say: �I hope to find a small church where I can get to know others!� only to get �lost� in joining with others in hoping that the church will grow big so others will know about it. You may be lost... |
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