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What I am doing it to find out more about Hillsong from those who know as in people that have been members of the church or are members of the church amongst others. I am doing that because you hear all sorts of stories and at the end of the day it is just an opinion.

Thank you for your thoughts on the matter. I have to admit that Justin Beiber puts me off totally with his tattoo covered body.

Wherever the churches are they are under the control of Brian Houston. The leadership of every church answers to him.

I know all that and I have posted my understanding of cults in the first post.

What did one penguin say to the other penguin? Piss off this is my toilet.

I guess that would stop you from being nosey.

That is all double dutch to me.

What is man's best friend and it is not a dog?

Plenty of time to read the readers digest.

There is no doubt that the church, in general, has missed the boat regarding the five ministry gifts in Ephesian 4:11. In all my 66 years as a Christian, I have only been part of one church that acknowledged all five gifts and made room for them. As a result, hundreds of churches started up. I...

A very important observation as I have found that too many expressions of the church seem to believe that denominational dictates are more important than scripture. When I was writing a dissertation on the NTC, I spoke to several denominational leaders to ask about their particular doctrines...

Except for the use of that particular word in Galatians 70 times in the New Testament has the same meaning means that there is no variation for us to interpret it otherwise.

There is a lot of contention about what happens in Acts probably because very few have made any attempt to live by its tenets. I will make a confession here. When I see a child that is dependent on a wheelchair to get about I want to go up to them and lay hands on them and command them to walk...

A very important verse Stan. The fact is we do not and cannot understand everything that is written in scripture as the finite man cannot comprehend the infinite. Without the Holy Spirit to teach us we are like fish floundering in the water, trying to make the best of a bad situation. When a...

In the original Greek, the word Israel appears 70 times in the New Testament. In every one of them, it refers to the descendants of Jacob. In other words, those that are Jews by birth or adoption. It is Hebrew in origin as in Jisrael or Yisrael. It does not indicate non-Jewish Christians.

I am conversant with the phenomenon of Hillsong and the various criticism leveled at it so I thought it might be an idea to start a thread about Hillsong and ask people to post actual evidence (not their ideas or prejudices) to get a perspective on the movement. I do not want hearsay or...

Most people is an unprovable claim as you have no way of knowing if most people believe what you say they do. All you can say is some people. And it is true that some people are skeptical about anything to do with the supernatural probably for the simple reason it means they cannot control it to...

Thankyou for your view. If you don't mind, I will stick with personal experience and study.

We are being taught by men who has their interpretation. By men who HAVE their interpretation. At the Passover meal, the eldest male would recite the deliverance from Egypt by the children of Israel, every year. They did not have newspapers, TV and radio in those days, and even if they did...

And I guess by that remark, no one else does. Otherwise known as self-righteousness.