razzelflabben
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Ephesians 4All true Christians are gifted with the indwelling Holy Spirit, so not sure want you mean by gifted?
yep...God seems to like taking those that appear to be incapable and show His capability to work with the weak.
not sure it has anything to do with that, but I am NOT a fan of commentaries, so this might be a different discussion best left for a different day.I fully agree severe persecution would help Christianity to grow spiritually and in numbers.
I would also contribute the growth of the underground church in China to the fact they really only have the Bible to work with (no commentaries!!!).
persecution...yep, our current denomination comes from similar rules and regulations and the breaking of those rules even at risk of death.There is also the unique way they all (100 million of them) seem to teach the same thing. The Communist government publicized a long list of what Christian Churches could not teach including: water emersion believer baptism, communion, the deity of Christ, Christ sacrificial death, heaven, hell, etc. The underground church took this list and used it as the subjects of what they do teach.
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