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We meet in homes so we are not a religious business like the churches out there that make money. We are not an incorporated church business. We don't have a name or publish a hymnal. In fact I'm humming a hymn right now...does that make me a lawbreaker? :) If you sing a Christmas carol in your...

Why is it God's design that we begin our Christian walks in the wilderness? We are to learn faithfulness through suffering. This is the way of God's training. Of course there will always be people who rebel against this. We must come through turmoil and tribulation and afterwards receive...

The modern worship songs are very often watered down in regards to truth so that people can relate to them better. And I think that they who write have not much to say to people as it is so very formulaic so often. Just put the word Jesus in there ...sort of thing. So then superficiality has...

It is a true saying that..."Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him." Thomas Merton

God doesn't need fanatics about truth...but people who live in the truth. We are to speak the truth in love. Fanaticism is the human mind adding in it's force to the issue. But this force is of the flesh...by the carnal will of men. Better to allow the truth to just be and enter into it. So then...

God has made it so that religious fanatics can't understand God's love. Fanaticism is against love as it seeks to force people to believe certain things....or else. That is man's way of interpreting and enforcing the bible....but not God's. The doctrine of Christ is to enter into God's life...

But you, as judge of all mankind, have not added in yourself into the equation. You don't see yourself...and how pathetic your opinions are. You don't see your own lack of righteousness.

A lack of love as you are displaying...not a lack of stubborn pride in they who think they know Christ.

This is religious fanatical twaddle. No love here at ALL. The bible doesn't say....without holiness God is going to burn you and torture you forever. Holiness is offered to us because of love...not as a threat. So the OP needs to learn about Christ.

Sure. But how do we show God and the world that we have given up our own lives to be His body? What keeps us together? Doctrines? Scheduling meetings? The early church saw themselves as strangers in the earth. Pilgrims joined together by a common life and faith. As such they identified family...

And Romans 6 is to be followed by Romans 7....the experience of they who still have not yet been crucified inwardly...a deeper level that actually enters INTO Christ and that brings us to death. After Romans 7 comes Romans 8. But I see people skimming through the process and claiming to be in...

All this is just Gnosticism unless our behaviour becomes holy and we act as Jesus would. This thread is basically promoting Gnosticism. We are what we act from. If we have carnal outbursts then that proves we are still walking in our own strength as carnal men. We might know ABOUT Jesus but we...

Can people discern the difference between a mind that is renewed by being in God's presence and a mind that is carnal but being religiously re-labeled according to bible sounding terminologies? How deep (or superficial) is that renewal?

What I'm trying to communicate to you was they were a "they" not just individuals...they were joined together as a community of faith. Not just meetings. It was every day.

While what you are saying is true about Sunday church or speaking engagements...I'm not talking about a religious gathering....but a shared life. Check out Acts 2. Not everyone is motivated to be spiritual on their own. Some people are meant to help the brethren do their spiritual work. So...

I appreciate that people are sincere in their devotional life towards God. I appreciate your own devotional life towards God. After all there were the desert ascetics who lived a life of devotion to God after forsaking the world. This might seem extreme to some but there it is! People will go to...

First to the Jews and then the Greeks. The Jews got first crack at the new and living way according to the inward holiness.

The giants in the land! People are afraid of the unknown. In todays church there is a big suspicion about anything supernatural. It's like people want to keep God out of His church. They prefer the relative calm of going about business in the flesh. They have chosen captains (pastors) who will...

People tend to fear the unknown. So then anything supernatural is suspect among they who don't have that personal connection to God through the Spirit. And to makes things worse there are parts of the church that indeed have embraced the false spirituality. So all this makes the road very...

And not all are of Christ who are called Christian.