Hello GumbyThis may helpBy Nick GogginHow To Find The "Right" Church As you may have noticed on WBSG Website, along with solid Scripturally based Bible teaching we also point out the many apostasies and 'traditions of man' that have slipped into the churches of today. We do this not to undermine Christianity - God forbid! - But rather to exalt the good Bible teaching Churches that are often overshadowed and obscured by the super-denominations of today. For what does it avail anyone to learn a lie and remain ignorant to the truth? And how does one know a lie is a lie unless someone show them? For often times it is easier to believe the lie than the truth. It is in many of these highly organized and vastly funded mega-churches where we see the most corruption of God's Word. From the beginning of history man has never handled power well, it corrupts everything it touches, even those who are sworn to teach God's Word in the multi-billion dollar World Church Federations and religious systems. The average person seemingly only sees or has access to the churches with the biggest buildings, the most members, or the slickest Ad campaigns. However, on many of the side streets and back roads of America one may find good Bible-based Ministries that teach the Word of God as it is written, and do not concern themselves with all the 'traditions of man' that are undermining the true Word of God. These smaller Bible-based Ministries are few in parishioners, short on funds, and they lack the magnificent buildings; but they are great in the dedication to teaching God's Word as He had it to be written in His Holy Written Word - The Bible. If you have been lucky enough to have found one of them, thank God and support them in any way can, for sadly, in this age of ecumenism, multifaith-ism, and man-pleasing from the Pulpits; these Bible based Churches are a dying breed. And when they are finally gone - God help us all! For then we are truly at the mercy of the money changers in the House of God, are we not almost there now? We purpose that good Bible teaching is not a creative art, not some new 'doctrine,' not some new method of 'enlightenment,' nor certainly not some new 'path;' but rather, the true telling of an old story that never changes, and how it relates to each individual. It's the story of one man's family, from Adam to Jesus Christ and the lives and times of those who come in contact with them. It's the story hope and salvation, the plan of God for mankind - His beloved but oftimes disobedient children. It is in that spirit that we chose to let the words of the now long deceased and almost forgotten Scholar of all Biblical scholars, E.W. Bullinger, best light the way to finding a true Church of God in these tumultuous times. From the Biography of E. W. Bullinger we submit:"You ask, Where you are to worship? We reply wherever God is glorified, Christ is exalted, God's Word is honored, the Holy Spirit's power is evidenced and man abased. Never go anywhere where you do not know more of God's Word than when you entered. Never be in any Body where you may be "turned out"; or have your name down where it may be scratched out. Be content with the membership which God has given you in the spiritual unity of the Body of Christ, from which no power in Earth or Hell can cut you off and be content that your name was written in the Lamb's "book of life" before the foundation of the world, and from which no power in Earth or Hell can ever take it out. Do nothing to imply that you do not hold these priceless privileges to be of infinite value; or that they can be added to in the slightest degree by any of man's corporate unities." -- E.W. Bullinger (late 1890's)