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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2006 6:28:16 GMT -5
Why do workers hold special meetings and gospel meetings on Easter? Some children would love to spend the evening hunting eggs instead of going to a gospel meeting several counties away.
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Post by Sylvestra on Apr 16, 2006 6:31:44 GMT -5
I think having a special meeting on this day is awesome! However, I would like to see people spending more time on the "truth of the day" instead of teaching their children paganism!
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Edy
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Post by sjg on Apr 16, 2006 10:03:13 GMT -5
I would have no problem with having gospel meeting or special meeting on Easter IF the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus was the main emphasis. Sadly, in most it will not even be mentioned.
Taken from “Hope for Each Day”
He has risen! He is not here. (Mark 16:6)
"The message of Easter is the central focus of Christianity.
The apostle Paul said, "If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins" (1 Cor. 15:17). It's as simple as that. If Christ is still dead, then He cannot be our Savior, for He was not the Son of God, and He died like all men. More than that, heaven's doors are still locked!
But if Christ is risen, as the Scriptures teach and the witnesses testified, then we have the ultimate hope of humanity---eternal life with the God who made us and the certainty of life beyond the grave!
Just as surely as Christ rose from the dead, so He will return and take us to Himself. Every promise---without exception---will be fulfilled.
What a glorious hope we have because Jesus IS alive!"
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Post by IllinoisGal on Apr 16, 2006 13:59:56 GMT -5
We had a celebration of Jesus being risen and now we can go directly to him ourselves for whatever needs we might have during church this morning. Plenty of mentioning of the death burial and resurrection.
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Post by hi5 on Apr 16, 2006 19:18:41 GMT -5
But couldn't they have an easter egg hunt after special meeting or gospel meeting? That couldn't hurt the "spirit of the meeting" , could it?
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Post by Yellow on Apr 16, 2006 19:24:24 GMT -5
Where I come from, the Easter egg hunt is always on the Saturday before Easter. Where do they hold it on Easter?
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Post by Yellow on Apr 16, 2006 19:29:10 GMT -5
Every Special Meeting I attended that was held on Easter was definitely not awesome because there were always several comments of the "world" and what they were doing at that time and how wrong it was. I always wondered why a celebration of the Resurrection of the Christ would be considered wrong for any reason!
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Post by 1x1 on Apr 16, 2006 19:45:38 GMT -5
So yellow you were in the truth?
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Post by Yellow on Apr 16, 2006 19:46:58 GMT -5
I don't like to call it the truth, but yes. And that is what I called it for so many, many years.
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Post by 1x1 on Apr 16, 2006 19:49:29 GMT -5
who was in the truth who can reply
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Post by 1x1 on Apr 16, 2006 19:53:12 GMT -5
How many years? Which conventions did you attend.
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Post by Yellow on Apr 16, 2006 20:01:58 GMT -5
How many years? Which conventions did you attend. Almost 50 years. Conventions in 6 states in the Midwest plus Colorado and New Mexico. |
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Post by 1x1 on Apr 16, 2006 20:02:57 GMT -5
How many years? Which conventions did you attend. |
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Post by 1x1 on Apr 16, 2006 20:06:44 GMT -5
What was the thought that made you leave?
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Post by Yellow on Apr 16, 2006 20:12:26 GMT -5
What was the thought that made you leave? The thought that we in the worker's religion are the only ones on the face of the earth that will make it to Heaven. Can't swallow that one. |
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Post by 1x1 on Apr 16, 2006 20:17:07 GMT -5
That is a long time to be in the worker's religion to conclude that! Though I do agree with the conclusion, what is heaven and are you
still planning on going?
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Post by 1x1 on Apr 16, 2006 20:18:25 GMT -5
That is a long time to be in the worker's religion to conclude that! Though I do agree with the conclusion, what is heaven and are you
still planning on going?
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Post by 1x1 on Apr 16, 2006 20:19:28 GMT -5
That is a long time to be in the worker's religion to conclude that! Though I do agree with the conclusion, what is heaven and are you
still planning on going?
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Post by 1x1 on Apr 16, 2006 20:23:33 GMT -5
That is a long time to be in the worker's religion to conclude that! Though I do agree with the conclusion, what is heaven and are you
still planning on going?
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Post by 1x1 on Apr 16, 2006 20:33:32 GMT -5
Thankyou
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Post by Yellow on Apr 16, 2006 20:37:15 GMT -5
That is a long time to be in the worker's religion to conclude that! Though I do agree with the conclusion, what is heaven and are you still planning on going? There are various reasons for staying in the religion even though you don't agree with a lot of it. That's what I did. Not so quietly biding my time. Waiting for God to open the door out. Heaven is the place our souls go to after death. However, Eternal Life is ours right now as we are seen clothed in the righteousness of Christ as the gift of His shed blood, simply because we believe in the power of that blood alone to remove our sin. So, yes, I am absolutely still planning on going! |
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Post by notwhat on Apr 16, 2006 22:02:22 GMT -5
Every Special Meeting I attended that was held on Easter was definitely not awesome because there were always several comments of the "world" and what they were doing at that time and how wrong it was. I always wondered why a celebration of the Resurrection of the Christ would be considered wrong for any reason! In the Special Meeting I attended today, there were many references to the cross and resurrection. I am not professing, but attending again after being away for about 25 years. The focus was definitely on Jesus. |
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Post by Simple on Apr 16, 2006 22:27:02 GMT -5
Every Special Meeting I attended that was held on Easter was definitely not awesome because there were always several comments of the "world" and what they were doing at that time and how wrong it was. I always wondered why a celebration of the Resurrection of the Christ would be considered wrong for any reason! Sure they "talk" about Jesus, but their actions and beliefs are of the flesh. How can you be humble and condemn all other Christians? In the Special Meeting I attended today, there were many references to the cross and resurrection. I am not professing, but attending again after being away for about 25 years. The focus was definitely on Jesus. |
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Post by pity on Apr 16, 2006 23:35:36 GMT -5
What was the thought that made you leave? The thought that we in the worker's religion are the only ones on the face of the earth that will make it to Heaven. Can't swallow that one. pity because it's not a matter of what you can swallow but what God thinks  |
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Post by so on Apr 16, 2006 23:38:46 GMT -5
Sure they "talk" about Jesus, but their actions and beliefs are of the flesh. How can you be humble and condemn all other Christians? In the Special Meeting I attended today, there were many references to the cross and resurrection. I am not professing, but attending again after being away for about 25 years. The focus was definitely on Jesus. so you are a good example of humility  wonder who's tit you'er trying to pull? |
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Post by correction on Apr 17, 2006 4:31:04 GMT -5
Sure they "talk" about Jesus, but their actions and beliefs are of the flesh. How can you be humble and condemn all other Christians? I haven't heard any worker condemn true christians, it is the fake, hypocritical ones that the bible condemns....for the reasons being given. At the same time, we can all feel that there are many times we fail, but failure to take correction is not getting it. |
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wonder who's tit you'er trying to pull?