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Recent content by nzguy

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    For Those Who Feels Like God Has Left Them

    Know that Christ dwells in you and you have eternal life: you CAN KNOW: 1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him...
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    Youthleader needs advice about a problem at my church

    Yah.. don't compromise on the Word of God to join a church that is emotionally appealing. That is how churches that were once biblically sound, but small.. thought they would die.. so they compromised doctrine to appeal to emotions to bring in the young ones to grow quickly. The result...
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    American Baptist Churches USA

    guess this thread will continue then :) (not my last post) unity in the body of Christ.. is something Paul has written on.. about church being built up.. with members edifying one another.. fitting together.. so that the body works well. This can only be possible if the body of Christ - is...
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    American Baptist Churches USA

    Yah that is perpetuity.. not succession.. I mean not succession in the exact.. church to church linking.. sense.. that is impossible to do.. perpetuity or succession in terms of churches that have held to biblical teaching being in every age with Jesus and His disciples first as the first...
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    American Baptist Churches USA

    My last post in this thread: Look.. it isn't The Trail of Blood that I adhere to so strongly.. it is the biblical teaching of : * church as always local and visible.. with no universal aspect (the universal, every believer living and dead.. is part of the Kingdom and Family of God, but not a...
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    American Baptist Churches USA

    What a second.. depends what you mean by 'succession' Did J.R Graves mean a traceable unbroken link to NT times.. or that there were independent churches that held to biblical teaching strongly and did not err significantly right from J C and His disciples to today? Once again.. is it the...
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    American Baptist Churches USA

    Yeah one misconception here: alot of people believe that the statement about New Testament churches means that these churches are actually claiming they can trace a complete unbroken line back to Christ with His churches. While it is true that Jesus' churches have existed from the NT times to...
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    Does your Church "sell" you the "Gospel"?

    Ya I ain't saying that the person who shares with the person leaves them at getting saved and gives nor more guidance or direction to a bible believing church. I am just sayin that if salvation were something along the lines of.. here is a gift .. now you have to mow my lawns.. tend my garden...
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    Inquisition deniers?

    so re-baptism is unbiblical? refusing to baptise babies is unbiblical? believing church to be only local is unbiblical? having scripture as teh only authority? It is true that there were some strange beliefs among those seperate from Catholicism but it may also be true that within these...
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    Inquisition deniers?

    This reminds me of hearing from a source... I don't know if this is true.. that many of the crusaders that went out were peaceful and weren't out to kill anyone.. but it was the fanatical hurtful ones that got the headlines? Anyway.. one thing I do have a gripe with is with church history...
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    Does your Church "sell" you the "Gospel"?

    Well it would take me eons to download that utube video to see it.. so I am probably posting ignorantly here but.. we agree with that principle of freely received, freely give and vice versa.. at our church. We have a bible college we are setting up that will be close to free... (I think there...
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    Iranian Presidents UN Speech

    yeah, here in NZ when they bring the census in.. most people identify themselves as 'Christian' in the religion box.. truth is, out of the huge number of people who claim that title.. like Wade Smith has typed.. not many are born again, and most have just put the title down because their...
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    Where is God in a troubled world?

    Ya God is right with the suffering and troubled.. His personal ministry as Jesus Christ was for these people. It was mans own free will and rebellion that has led to problems today.. thankfully God has resolved the issue and will forgive the sins of all who believe in Him.. absolute grace...
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    Iranian Presidents UN Speech

    Ah... reminds me of the Buddhist leaders and Islamic leaders that come over here (New Zealand) and basically share their entire faith upon arrival in an official government visit televised on TV. If it were a Christian fella.. then there would be all kinds of mud thrown about... but since it is...
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    The true church of the Lord

    Jesus doesn't have any churches? Okay....... let's start with this: Jesus and His disciples: * shared their faith carrying out the great commission, * had Jesus as the Head, * were a 'called out' assembly, which defines part of what a church is, * had the Lord's Supper.. which is a...