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Try some of the Medieval Lollard Christians, who observed the Lord's Supper in simplicity, and for whom the political constructions of the Reformation did not match their simply looking to the Lord's coming in faith. Hundreds of years before Darby.

So did you show the Christian tattoo art talent to your daughter who wanted to be a tattoo artist?

Good insight; we really do depend on the wondrous grace of God.

Great text, and relevant to the discussion! :)

I guess the point is that the aim of one big organizational church conglomerate is illusory and unScriptural anyway. Best for each local congregation to look to the Lord directly.

Great thoughts there. "Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you" (1 Peter 5.7) (The older lady you mention wasn't one of the ones who gave you as a young Christian a hard time about ear piercings, then? :) )

Matthew 24 does not seem to be speaking of the church. The Great Tribulation mentioned seems to be a unique, future event.

Is there really a verse for this?

So were they good?

Good to see our friend back.

Love in John's First Epistle is a very powerful study.

Romans 11 says that 'all Israel shall be saved' and speaks of 'the fulness of the Gentiles'. It refers to the backgrounds of those who stand by faith, but these distinctions have not disappeared in historical and prophetic terms.

Yes, I would generally agree with this, I think.

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I think it's probably sensible these days for Christians with tattoos of nudes, acquired at some stage of their past, to have an artist tattoo a bikini or top or skirt onto the figure of the nude.

I think many professing evangelicals will have some basic notions of dispensational distinctives, but they seem to co-exist with other political and philosophical assumptions which are not necessarily in keeping with them. So it's really a matter of being challenged from Scripture about what it...

Interesting perspective. Paul uses the phrase 'spirit, soul and body' in 1 Thess. 5.23.

Searching verses there.

I think there can be levels of dispensational thinking and understanding. Another way of looking at it is the question of context in Scripture: to whom is the Lord speaking, to which group of people and when?

Individuals and companies practising Acts 2.42 can expect to continue in this way until the Lord comes. The link is always first and foremost Godward and as we keep 'looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith' we can be by God's grace a functioning microcosm of Acts 2.42, and don;t...