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The important thing is His presence within you and you abiding in that presence. Then it doesn't matter when Jesus comes back. How do we foster that presence??? Why have so few contemplated (as in ACTS 2) a closer connection to the body of Christ in the form of a community life in the Spirit...

Very encouraging!!!!! We are either dead In Christ or else dead To Christ.

Eph_4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

Who is listening to what the Spirit is saying???

Many are taught that the race of faith is finished after the first step. Imagine watching a race where the gun goes off and almost all the runners take one step and then remain petrified on the spot. It leaves you scatching your head...how do people get so indoctrinated as to miss the whole...

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires". - William Arthur Ward

Again both your options are from men. Here is a question that is meant to help you...although I don't expect your defensive mechanisms will let you actually listen... (such is the conundrim of one who is still captive by the old sin nature) How did Ananias know where to find Paul in Damascus???

"Being holy is not a list of do’s and don’ts. Holiness is measured by how much of Christ’s spirit/character we reflect to those around us. " So far so good! :) "To those that believe our holiness is based on our behavior..." Here you contradict the previous thing you said. We are all known by...

Now if you only understood what faith really is.

It appears to me that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right. Like having a lamp but forgetting the oil...

That's great!!!! I came at it from the other direction. I was basically suicidal and had no more hope or wish to live when God came in to convict me of my sins...I even went to the RC's to confession...but my sins were a weight I could no longer bear. I read all the books in my apt until there...

This is the goal of all religions...and the subject of many new year's resolutions. But have you no more respect for the gospel and the power of God than this? Is there not more power in the blood of Christ than what your declaration suggests? Was Jesus just a holy man who sinned and called...

Well said! It mystifies me how anyone cannot see this...

Grace is a gift that is given as a means to attain to Christ. Even Paul said... Php_3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. People are following a far different...

I'm checking you out... So Paul was wrong to write to believers in a specific place??? The true church is indeed in the world...just not OF IT. You are probably meaning the RC concept of the church triumphant which goes to explain away the pathetic condition of the church visible. How does a...

For the record.... There is no such thing as a privetely owned eternal salvation. think about it... We may be able to own cars and houses in this life...men love to increase what they have...but in the kingdom it is what you lose that counts.

Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Joh 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us...

When are you going to see that placing your own belief trust and confidence in Jesus then claiming salvation for your own belief trust and confidence IS to trust in your own abiblity to save yourself. What say does God have??? What proof that God even hears you? The actual acceptance of God is...

"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions." - Jassamyn West You are not believing the bible testimony but setting up your own righteousness. This accusation of depending on human works points back to you...

Is this thread in Cuba yet??? "The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." - Hubert H. Humphrey