Category: Saturday Post Series: Church
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Distinction between the Kingdom and the Church of Christ
Kingdom OR Church? Is distinction lacking in the Gospel of YOUR Church? WE like to think that OUR Church has a great vision of Gospel grace, but do we PREACH any distinction between DOCTRINES and the WORK of evangelical ‘christians’ from OUR stages of worship? For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for…
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Divinity, Doctrine and Denomination
As I pointed out in our last Saturday Post WE, the church, seem to have some differences dividing our approach to divinity. What does it mean to be called a “Christian?” Who are all of those ‘denominations‘ that call themselves, ‘Church?’ And what do doctrine and divinity have to do with it? Divinity God IS…
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Denominations / Why can’t we all just get along?
It’s a great question isn’t it? And from this street-level philosopher we might extrapolate questions like: “Why can’t all the church just get along?” or “Why can’t churches of ALL denominations just get along?” or “Shouldn’t OUR church teach tolerance of all poor street philosophers and inclusively preach THEIR philosophies from every religion?” THEIR Two-faced…
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Two-faced Tolerance :)(: of the Church Against Christ
“But there are some of you who do not believe.” “Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?” Gospel of John 6:64a, 70b LSB [in context] Jesus chose Judas as a Disciple of his master’s teaching [doctrine], yet Judas betrayed his lord Jesus with a greeting of…
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Church: Religion? Philosophic Discourse? or Cultural Calling?
The instant you say, ‘church,’ you dip your toe into waters of reactions which you know not how hot or cold, how shallow or deep, how stagnant or storm-tossed the hearer of your faith. Do you dare even ask? Are YOU a CHRISTIAN? Where did you worship last Sunday? Do you belong to OUR church?…
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Syncretism – a little leaven added to Christ’s Church
Leaven & Syncretism In an earlier Saturday Post in this series I coined the teaching, preaching and study of Everythingology – definition: 1. Endless study of everything; 2. Theoretical theology of humanity as god. Today our focus turns toward the ‘isms‘ applied to the Church. Specifically, syncretism is form of everythingology stirred into the beliefs of Christians…
