Put the church on a milk carton!

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Mitspa

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notuptome said:
Wow just wow.

Bought any bridges lately?

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what do you mean..its quite a common idea to look at the heart of a issue or a point and not get caught up in how it delievered ... I don't think Yet has any personal hate for folks...
 
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Mitspa said:
maybe what we see is not His real Church?
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I'm not sure what he's seeing.. seemed like time to ask...

sure there are problems in the church, and humans... I'm one of the human problems in the church... :)

I think the church is still advancing against hell's gates.

but maybe it's possible to read that verse some other way... maybe, idk... I'm hoping Yet will respond.
 
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Dan_473 said:
I'm not sure what he's seeing.. seemed like time to ask...

sure there are problems in the church, and humans... I'm one of the human problems in the church... :)

I think the church is still advancing against hell's gates.

but maybe it's possible to read that verse some other way... maybe, idk... I'm hoping Yet will respond.
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Yes, people forget that the church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

And, they think they are not one of the "human problems".

Like one of my friends says, people are messy. He uses the analogy of a baby eating spaghetti. They try to get the food in their mouths, but it ends up everywhere including their diapers.

In this case, I think we've got a baby who can't even hit his face and he's trying to teach other babies how to eat spaghetti :D
 
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sparkman said:
Yes, people forget that the church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

And, they think they are not one of the "human problems".

Like one of my friends says, people are messy. He uses the analogy of a baby eating spaghetti. They try to get the food in their mouths, but it ends up everywhere including their diapers.

In this case, I think we've got a baby who can't even hit his face and he's trying to teach other babies how to eat spaghetti :D
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That whole idea of no overseeer and everyone has something doesn't work, because the church is full of babies when you just start. They first have to grow up and be healed up and discipled and then they can get the harvest in and teach other babies.
It's just like saying a family doesn't need a dad.
We had such schools in Holland. Kids decide what they want to do. They now closed them because they just played and didn't learn anything.
 
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sparkman said:
My group considered those who left to be lost unless they came back.
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That is pretty much the conclusion of any denomination in respect to one that does not agree with what makes up the denomination's beliefs called heresies that one is in. It could be dangerous if men walk after the confederacy (walking by sight after the flesh)and the not after the proper manner of spirit. .
 
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Dan_473 said:
I'm not sure what he's seeing.. seemed like time to ask...

sure there are problems in the church, and humans... I'm one of the human problems in the church... :)

I think the church is still advancing against hell's gates.

but maybe it's possible to read that verse some other way... maybe, idk... I'm hoping Yet will respond.
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So many things called "church" and often It is the very tool of satan against the True Will of God.
 
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sparkman said:
Yes, people forget that the church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

And, they think they are not one of the "human problems".

Like one of my friends says, people are messy. He uses the analogy of a baby eating spaghetti. They try to get the food in their mouths, but it ends up everywhere including their diapers.

In this case, I think we've got a baby who can't even hit his face and he's trying to teach other babies how to eat spaghetti :D
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I like that analogy! I can picture a baby with sauce all over the place, a noodle or two hanging off its head...
 
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coby2 said:
That whole idea of no overseeer and everyone has something doesn't work, because the church is full of babies when you just start. They first have to grow up and be healed up and discipled and then they can get the harvest in and teach other babies.
It's just like saying a family doesn't need a dad.
We had such schools in Holland. Kids decide what they want to do. They now closed them because they just played and didn't learn anything.
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no overseer? is this something that was talked about earlier?

I'm totally in favor of overseers... they'll still be humans with problems... I'm thinking of Peter, who did some good things, some things he'd probably like to do over... like all of us...
 
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Mitspa said:
So many things called "church" and often It is the very tool of satan against the True Will of God.
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very true! I think we both agree that somewhere, somehow, there is the church that Jesus is building, His body...
 
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Dan_473 said:
no overseer? is this something that was talked about earlier?

I'm totally in favor of overseers... they'll still be humans with problems... I'm thinking of Peter, who did some good things, some things he'd probably like to do over... like all of us...
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I got the idea that's what Yet wants. Everyone has something. That was in cell groups in the N.T. It's really good except when noone has anything. I've been to so many of those meetings when the pastor or guest speaker couldn't come and hey people we have a everyone has something service. Most of the time it was just fellowshipping and eating something, because noone had anything.
 
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'Why is Yet so mean'? My kids use to ask the same thing when they got caught doing something wrong. They temporarily forgot what was right. I'd help them remember! :rolleyes:
 
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Yet said:
'Why is Yet so mean'? My kids use to ask the same thing when they got caught doing something wrong. They temporarily forgot what was right. I'd help them remember! :rolleyes:
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If I had need to put you on a milk carton (as missing in action) and didnt have a picture of you I would sub a little younger pic of Sean Connery

You sort of ressemble him a bit



You do (at least to me you do)

It was bugging me then I hunted down the one that matched your pic
 
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PilgrimPassingThru said:
If I had need to put you on a milk carton (as missing in action) and didnt have a picture of you I would sub a little younger pic of Sean Connery

You sort of ressemble him a bit



You do (at least to me you do)

It was bugging me then I hunted down the one that matched your pic
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hahahahahahaha you're right!
 
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PilgrimPassingThru said:
If I had need to put you on a milk carton (as missing in action) and didnt have a picture of you I would sub a little younger pic of Sean Connery

You sort of ressemble him a bit



You do (at least to me you do)

It was bugging me then I hunted down the one that matched your pic
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Glad you brought that up. Years ago when I finally grew weary of dealing with the receding hair line debacle, we went into the back yard and I told the woman of the house 'woman of the house! Help me get shed of this disagreeable, malaise a top me head.' And her, never being the kind to argue, commenced with the task.
I went into the house, peaked, with somewhat apprehension, terrified at what might lie before me, into the bathroom mirror, and low and behold, Sean Connery was looking back at me. :cool:
Relieved at not beholding that which an active imagination had produced in my mind, I immediately went into my Sean Connery impersonation. I can do a real good Jimmy Stewart and Marlon Brando to.
Whoa! We're having way to much fun now! :rolleyes:
 
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Yet said:
Glad you brought that up. Years ago when I finally grew weary of dealing with the receding hair line debacle, we went into the back yard and I told the woman of the house 'woman of the house! Help me get shed of this disagreeable, malaise a top me head.' And her, never being the kind to argue, commenced with the task.
I went into the house, peaked, with somewhat apprehension, terrified at what might lie before me, into the bathroom mirror, and low and behold, Sean Connery was looking back at me. :cool:
Relieved at not beholding that which an active imagination had produced in my mind, I immediately went into my Sean Connery impersonation. I can do a real good Jimmy Stewart and Marlon Brando to.
Whoa! We're having way to much fun now! :rolleyes:
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LOL!!! You crack me up!

You pull off bald well Yet

Seriously though, I couldnt believe the ressemblance between you two

Can I call you 007? :p;)
 
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Dan_473 said:
I'm not sure what he's seeing.. seemed like time to ask...

sure there are problems in the church, and humans... I'm one of the human problems in the church... :)

I think the church is still advancing against hell's gates.

but maybe it's possible to read that verse some other way... maybe, idk... I'm hoping Yet will respond.
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All my threads are responses to an adnormality we call 'church'.

See: thread: 1Cor. 12, Romans 12, and Ephesians 4
 
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notuptome said:
I never said that anyone was above the truth or that anyone could or should disregard biblical mandates.

The OP continuously attacks church pastors without regard to the person. Many if not most church pastors are our brothers in Christ. He operates like that Westboro church. He cloaks his attacks with skewed applications of scripture and claims his hands are clean.

Reminds me of the passage about dumb dogs that can't bark.

Isa 56:10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

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Always accuse me of twisting scripture but never ever tell me what scriptures I'm twisting. Why do you suppose you guys do that?
And you must have missed the times I've said that if these self appointed men would do things God's way, He'd bless them accordingly.

So tell me what scriptures am I wresting?
 
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