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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2006 15:01:08 GMT -5
Workers and their professing friends don't like to hear some so-called "bitter ex" running down their group. Yet workers are always preaching against the worldly preachers in the religious world! Workers claim denominational preachers are lost, wrong, and only after money! Hardly a series of gospel meetings are completed before we hear one of the workers bash other churches! Is it the other churches against God's church (which is the friends and workers!) US versus them! I wished professing folks would express open disgust for the bashing of other churches! Workers seem to think that God brings people out of other churches and into their fellowship. As if one cannot have eternal life outside this group. This is a serious doctrinal error that has been allowed to exist for way too long.
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Post by evidently on May 20, 2006 15:08:08 GMT -5
"Workers and their professing friends don't like to hear some so-called "bitter ex" running down their group."
What evidence is there for this?
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Post by guest5 on May 20, 2006 18:39:28 GMT -5
To Why - When was the last time you heard a worker preach against a "false" church? There has been for some time a big push to stop bashing other religions, church buildings, etc. cause the workers know it hurts them more than helps them. A person can believe what they want and talking about others isn't going to help a bit. Next time you see a worker, which I doubt you will, as them about bashing other churches.
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Post by IllinoisGal on May 20, 2006 19:05:55 GMT -5
Simple answer for a simple question.Lack of Wisdom
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Post by well on May 20, 2006 21:39:23 GMT -5
well really you have given yourself the answer WORLDLY ;D
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Post by Huh To Guest 5 on May 22, 2006 16:36:06 GMT -5
To Why - When was the last time you heard a worker preach against a "false" church? There has been for some time a big push to stop bashing other religions, church buildings, etc. cause the workers know it hurts them more than helps them. **** Tell me more. When did this policy begin? I heard it in 2006. Eastern US, of course. Heard about worldly churches being like a business! God's people being like a family! You won't attend a series of gospel meetings in Eastern US without hearing sermons bashing the "religious world!" I hope Taylor Wood, Charles Steffen and Barry Barkley decide to ease up on worldly churches!
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Post by bluejay on May 22, 2006 17:50:14 GMT -5
Simple answer for a simple question.Lack of Wisdom I'd also say maybe some fear as well. I have professing family who have never "tested the spirits" themselves and attended a "worldly church" ... even just to educate themselves. So I've always wondered how they can so easily make judgments about what really happens in other churches. I know about that fear because it kept me stumbling around blindly for years. Even though I wasn't attending meetings, I just knew from what I had been taught that God would strike me dead if I dared to cross the threshold of a worldly churches' door. And yet, the exclusivity of the f&w's belief was a doctrine I couldn't reconcile in my heart. Kinda left me stranded in 'no mans land' until God spoke loud and clear to me. Worldly churches do have a business side to them. After all, it costs money to send missionaries to foreign lands ... it costs money to provide ongoing outreach to the needy in the community ... it costs money to send the youth on short missions each year, and much, much more I could speak of. What the workers don't honestly speak of is the business side of their fellowship. Conventions, special meetings, overseas workers all function through the giving of money. And someone has to keep track of where it is, who needs what, etc. Anyone who truly believes in Jesus and repents becomes one of "God's family". Doesn't matter whether the money aspect of their group is out in the open or ....... um ..... not spoken of. It's belief & faith that saves us all.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2006 17:52:46 GMT -5
Please encourage the scoffing, it helps others differentiate one from the other.
Karl
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Post by so on May 22, 2006 19:24:19 GMT -5
Please encourage the scoffing, it helps others differentiate one from the other. Karl so putting a stumbling block in someones way is what you preach?
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Post by Stumbled onto Truth on May 22, 2006 19:59:55 GMT -5
Please encourage the scoffing, it helps others differentiate one from the other. Karl so putting a stumbling block in someones way is what you preach? That is often how the Holy Spirit works-putting a stumbling block in front of the status quo. That's how God led my family OUT of the 2x2 cult. I have met Karl and while I have not heard him preach,I have had a long visit and from my experience he is filled with the Holy Spirit. I think you should get to know him before judging so quickly-proper discernment is in order here.
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Post by guest5 on May 22, 2006 20:20:24 GMT -5
To Huh - This has been in the last couple of years. The workers I have heard have said that it does no good to bash the other churches. Those people believe as they want to and we believe as we want to and bashing isn't going to change a thing. When was the last time you heard Taylor Wood even preach. Does he even make any convention rounds anymore. Those workers you mentioned included Barry Barkley are in for a real let down IF they are still bashing. No wonder fewer and fewer are coming to meetings. They not only get on the bad side of what they call 'outsiders" but run their own off besides.
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