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Ouch! What denomination were they? ;)

But this could also have been said about the Germans during the Nazi regime. They were so focused on their own lives they didn't notice how evil the society had become.

And nasty is a fruit of a religious bent...not of Christ. A lot of fakeness going on these days to be sure.

In your scheme then you are saying that all sinners are saved?...or just the ones that spell Jesus' name correctly?...or have their religious ducks in a row to fill out a political questionnaire about doctrinal preferences? Or are we all going to reap what we sow...and God will judge everyone...

Too often the religious institutions are just repositories of spiritual diseases, infections, and contamination. I mean, here the devil has everybody that could threaten him in one place. (And that's nothing to sneeze at)

So then love the hell out of the sinner.

Christian music is the same as non-Christian music. Just like Christian English is the same as non-Christian English. Nobody becomes a skilled Christian musician. Nobody becomes a Christian English specialist. Learn the language of music...humbly...and make music to the Lord that way. God does...

So who are in the "nations of they who are saved" ? No amount of dogmatic ideology (neo-political conservatism) that you like so much can explain this.

In God's case...translation into Zion. Think Enoch!

That's being righteous. People of all religions do this. Loving your neighbour as yourself. Being led by the Spirit is always about doing miraculous things...that no man can do on his own. Walking in the Spirit by abiding in Christ makes us walk EXACTLY as Jesus did...no sin whatsoever.

Notice that the eternal fruit is at different levels of honour...gold, silver and precious stones. Gold would be walking in the light as Jesus did. And precious stones are those times where we are led to do the things that were prepared in advance. (Unsure where silver fits in...but it is...

We can still bear an eternal kind of fruit by being LED by the Spirit...which is far less than walking IN the Spirit (as Jesus did). There is a difference between someone who is abiding in Christ and one who goes to Christ for direction...or is listening to God's voice.

We all follow the Lord from different distances. So few walk in the Spirit...and not too many are led by the Spirit. Many turn to God when He is needed...but are just fine on heir own most of the time.

The bride of Christ is a small subset of the body of Christ. Just like when Eve was taken from one rib of Adam's chest....that which was next to his heart.

A stage and a microphone are for entertainment. The simple gathering of brothers around the Lord is what it is all about. Committing one to another in the fear of the Lord. All the rest is just spectacle and entertainment.

The modern doctrine seeks to take the righteousness away from the righteous and make normal human righteousness to be God's own righteousness. This lowers the standard so much that anyone can claim to be as righteous as God while still being a sinner. AND it denies that others who are doing much...

The whole situation is getting unfringed by the sound of it. Sounds like a fringe group though, in spite of that.

Well, a lot of Messianics hold to that view. The truth is that the saints come from every tribe and tongue and nation. In Christ there is no distinction. They are the bride. The guests are the righteous and these also come from every nation.

I'm reminded of the Monty Python skit where the man is looking to buy an argument with someone. Man, all he had to do was join a church discussion group.

It's actually what you DO with what you have been given. God is NOT a respecter of persons. Many will try the ploy of trying to call out Lord, Lord.