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Re: Bulletin Board [message #7020 is a reply to message #6998]

Sat, 03 April 2010 12:53

sparkles
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Registered: March 2008

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James said:
"It seems to me that today more and more professing Christians are crossing denominational lines(for lack of a better word).
I see many people partaking of Lent(non-Catholics), Methodist, Presbyterian, Anglicans, Episcopalians all have some form of 'self-denial' leading up to what they celebrate as Easter. It's odd, that if you talk with a person from these denominations, they'll denounce everything Catholic, yet they join in with them with these practices."

I sure do agree with your statement James. Too bad our politicians don't learn to do what the churches do, and reach across party lines to compromise the good of the country. But these things must happen with the division and strife so all will be in place for Anti-Christ to make his entrance.

Where I work there are also non catholics giving(at least trying) to give things up for Lent. Some of us went out to eat yesterday and there were a few Catholics that didn't go because it was "Good Friday" and they couldn't eat meat, and others that went just had the fish off the prime rib/pizza buffet. I wonder what they would think if they knew of the paganness of Easter?

It seems like there is so little discernment today in the churches, where it has become a country club atmosphere. The kids have their game rooms and big TV's and couches so they can hang out and play. The adults have their loud rock and roll music that they call "worship" music, and they also have their coffee shops in the church.

The false teaching of the Emergent Church seems to be growing daily, and people like Rick Warren have deceived multitudes.
We have books like "The Shack," "Velvet Elvis," "Forty Days of Purpose," books on the Emergent Church, false prophets writing books, false Apostles, seed faith teaching, karate in the churches, yoga being taught, and a multitude of other errors and deceptions that is doing nothing but desensitizing people to the Word of God and the way Jesus told us to walk. People are encouraged to get involved in social justice issues and politics, instead of being encouraged to be separate from this world and serve God and prepare for the soon return of Jesus.

And I suppose one of the saddest things is the way churches are not speaking out against heresy and deceptions, but embracing the Catholic Church, one of the biggest cults in the world, who have robbed untold multitudes of salvation in Christ. There is abuse in many churches because we will always have the wheats and tares together, and the devil is more than willing to plant someone to bring reproach on the name of Christ, but the sexual abuse we have heard about in the Catholic church is astounding. Could part of the problem be that they are commanding their people to not marry, which is in direct violation of scripture? A church my friend use to go to thanked God for the Pope when he died a few years ago, and thanked the Lord that the pope was in heaven. And then prayed that God would give us a charasmatic pope to replace the other one. What are these so called conservative churches thinking?
May God open all our eyes to the deceptions out there, but even more, help us to walk in truth we have been given over the years, and all the truth contained in the Word of God.

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