re: Mega church Pastor resigns, apologizes to LGBT Mafia

There's the skinny jeans wearing, gesturing with your hands, soy boy evanjellocalism.

Then there's the real thing.

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Show me anywhere in the bible that the church is a physical building. It's not. The church is the people. The physical building is a convenient, comfortable place to meet. Where 2 or more are gathered..............

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I don't think you're understanding the point. The point isn't about the building but the meeting together with other believers to hear the Word preached and the sacraments given; it's participating in the means of grace. It's meeting together with the other members of the body of Christ to uplift and to be uplifted, to help and to be helped. It's submission to the leaders God put in place in His Church for instruction and reproof. It's a host of things that cannot exist by worshiping on a mountain or in your living room, alone with Sermon Audio on in the background.

And has been said, "For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them" is about the validity of Church discipline, not worship. The previous verses describe what to do with a brother who sins against you, concluding that you take them before the church and if he still doesn't repent, you excommunicate him. Read that again: you take him before the church. That can't happen if you don't belong to a local congregation of believers.

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you always enter these threads with vague wording, and when someone asks you to be specific, you evade or leave the thread.

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And it isn’t my job to meet your demands. The way the conversation would go after that is predictable, so you’ll just have to find someone else for your “debate me, coward” game.

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Projecting much there little buddy?

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No, it’s you, and the pseudo-namecalling is how I know you’re mad.

Not my job to clarify anything for you or define anything for you.

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Let us know when you're ready to actually defend your position instead of just casting stones at people who are calling out your dumb ideas

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Somebody’s casting stones

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Same reason everybody else is.

I offered my comments and stand by them. All the terms I use have definitions. Anyone truly wanting to know the meaning of any term I used will look it up and go from there. Anyone demanding I provide them a definition of a term I’ve used is being lazy and disingenuous, so I don’t engage with the lazy, hacky tactic.

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I can't speak for others but I sometimes am so perplexed by the usage of certain words and phrases by others within the context of the discussion that I feel compelled to ask for clarification in order to make sense of what is being said. Sometimes the lack of clarity is on me, and sometimes it's on the other person. Constructive dialogue requires that both the sender and the receiver of the message to understand what the message is saying.

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No it's not if option b is the person or God killing your or throwing you to Hell

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yes, it is still a choice. you are being given a choice. comply or not. it's just not that hard to understand. you don't know for a fact that it will end in your death. you are being TOLD that.

you are conflating the outcome with the choice. the outcome is downstream

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there is no rational second option

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to you

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That's how dictators rule

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dictators can be resisted at least once

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anc

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you're still missing hebrews 10:25

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Somebody’s casting stones

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i responded to your statements on substance. you have not reciprocated. why?

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What gives you the right to label someone else’s beliefs?

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The 1st Amendment.