re: Mega church Pastor resigns, apologizes to LGBT Mafia

In my world its really simple. Male or female which is easy enough to determine upon birth.

Belief in God or not which is also easy to determine.

Do or say as you will but the above determines your basic values.

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Luke 17:21

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that verse does not say to not go to church. at all

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the Kingdom of God is within you and all around you. It is not within buildings of wood and stone. Split a piece of wood and you will find me. Look beneath a stone and I am there

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again, this verse and hebrews 10:25 are not mutually exclusive

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that verse does not say to not go to church. at all

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ETA. Hit submit too soon.

I'm not hear to debate scripture per se. We could go all night.

If you find God in a church and organized religion where the preacher enriches himself off the flock, more power to you.

I was Christened Episcopalian, went to Catholic schools and Methodist Church and my
Father is an Ordained Minister for non-demolition church.

Sitting in a building being told what to think and believe is not for me. I've got no problem with those that do. But don't call us out as being non-Christian because I chose to be closest to God in Nature and in heart and not in a Mega-Church or most other "Organized" Religion.

We are supposed to serve one another as members of one body, the Church. It’s hard to do that when we are always on some mountain top worshipping God by ourselves.

We are supposed to participate in the sacraments, like the Lord’s Supper, which we can’t do by ourselves.

We are told to submit ourselves to the Church and the leaders of the Church for instruction and reproof. Can’t do that if you aren’t part of a local congregation.

We are supposed to follow the Biblical method of accountability and calling our brothers and sisters in Christ to repentance for their sins by bringing them before the church for discipline if they don't repent. Can’t do that if there is no local body to bring them to.

I could go on, but the “Church” is the people of God and we are intended to be with one another, serving and submitting to one another, and worshiping the one true God and His son Jesus together for the sanctification of each other. The apostles addressed their letters to churches or pastors of churches where they could be read aloud to entire congregations. With limited exceptions, If you are not part of a local body, you are not obeying the Lord.

Also, there are a lot of charlatans/wolves in the Church. Instead of using that to abandon the organized and commanded worship of God, we should be holding these people accountable and calling them out for who they are so that they don’t continue to lead others astray and cause others to blaspheme God.

He may not have sucked a dick, but he’s held one in his mouth until the swelling went down.

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True Christendom is a minority within Americans christianity. It’s all entertainment and self help centers. And Christians are quickly becoming a minority.

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Correct. Churches have become a place of feelings and self help indeed. People go to put their hands up in the sky during the music and have the pastor tell them what they want to hear.

People are all about what feels good and what suits their emotions.

This is ironic because this is what drives the entirety of leftism. They are fueled by emotions in every stance they hold in a religious way.

Emotional imbalances are what drive 3rd world countries into chaos where they are killing off leaders on emotional outbursts from simple matters (see Puerto Rico). They never stabilize.


Even as women are given more authority in our society, decisions become more emotional.


Emotions are wildly unstable and a society built on emotion will easily crash.

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Sitting in a building being told what to think

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if you're doing that, then that's YOUR problem and is not a reason to stop going to church. look up priesthood of the believer. it was kind of a big deal a couple hundred years ago

what you did is set up a false dilemma. there's something in between allowing yourself to be brainwashed and not going to church and the bible is clear as to what it is

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But don't call us out as being non-Christian

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god's word says go to church. i'm not calling you out.

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I chose to be closest to God in Nature and in heart

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why are you acting like this is mutually exclusive of going to church? do you know why you're supposed to go to church?

Matthew 18:20

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

This dude is the epitome of the hipster millennial culture:

- cucked
- faux intellectual
- deceptive
- relies on other peoples money

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Look in to the Orthodox Church in America

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Love the OCA.