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Recent content by Stefos

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    What caused you to leave your church?

    Hi, I haven't posted here in forever almost. My contribution to your question: First, I thank you for your stand in Christ.........Thank you. Second, I don't know how leaving institutional church has left you "homeless." Are you literally homeless? honestly I'm not joking. If you're...
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    The need for proper teaching and the dire consequences thereof...

    Hi everyone, I've been revisiting the issue of proper BIBLICAL teaching. Jesus taught for 3 + years and he said the Holy Spirit would guide us into ALL the truth. Fast forward about 2000 years and Voila! Modern day America and it's denoms & sects. So, There is a difference between the...
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    O.K. the next level of nonsense: "We need to be yoked with another ministry"...Read below

    Right....New Hampshire is a different beast my friend...Especially when you leave the big cities. Come up here and see........ You'll find lots of dead churches and many backwoods fellowships that cannot communicate and mutually submit to one another. Serious problems.........I don't even...
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    What caused you to leave your church?

    Hi and No, it isn't brother. It can be however. Biblical Christianity is NOT Protestant Lutheranism (or any other brand of Protestantism, Catholicism, or Orthodoxy either). Biblical Christianity is following Jesus the Christ and following the pattern God set up as recorded in the New...
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    O.K. the next level of nonsense: "We need to be yoked with another ministry"...Read below

    Quite True! We will be more concerned about what the Lord says. However we have a massive problem today. People have been taught wrong and the only place I can find to bring new believers is to the home fellowship I have with a husband & wife! Living in New England.......it's very difficult to...
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    O.K. the next level of nonsense: "We need to be yoked with another ministry"...Read below

    Hi everyone, Happy New Year! So, I find myself in yet another "interesting place" with God's people: A series of events happens and people think that God is displeased or is allowing evil on them AFTER we discuss the biblical model for fellowship and we all come to a consensus that God's word...
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    Christian dating and not following American brand Christianity: The First Results

    Hi Parsley, THE problem is that denominational lines of thinking are so entrenched in this country (USA), that instead of them viewing you as a friend, you are viewed as attacking THEM. You know this........Entrenched thinking is a stronghold deluxe complex. Most Christian women I've met do...
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    Leaving the house church

    THAT is the reason cults and Charismatic personalities "Rule" over people. This is the reason why I primarily left the Christian home fellowships I was part of. This reason AND because they didn't want to co-mingle with other believers due to an unwillingness to submit to one another AND...
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    American brand Christianity....where is this mess going?

    I am not a pronent of the "house church movement" that you might think I am. This is very important to establish from the get go. Most of the "house church movement" is nothing but denominationalism matriculated into a person's house, apartment or condo and I explicitly refute that ideology...
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    American brand Christianity....where is this mess going?

    Sorry for ANY misunderstanding. I do apologize. However this thread is not about "theology" per se but rather house churches and cell groups. My stance is "read the word and let it tell you how the believers gathered and under what kind of oversight." We find Elders & Apostles speaking w/one...
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    American brand Christianity....where is this mess going?

    Look, John isn't speaking of the Law of Moses but of the Logos of God. The Logos is a Greek word, not a Hebrew one. You can get the gist of it by looking at an ancient Greek book of philosophy. Adam & Eve never received 10 commandments but 1 only. Abraham had ZERO commandments as such but...
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    American brand Christianity....where is this mess going?

    I'm not teaching Replacement Theology but rather this: Paul taught that salvation comes through faith in Christ and not being Jewish. Paul taught that a portion of Israel will be saved, not the entire race. Paul taught that the covenants, promises, etc. were first and foremost given to Israel...
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    Christian dating and not following American brand Christianity: The First Results

    Well, again, it goes like this: Jesus is THE leader. No other human being is a leader. Matthew 23:10-12 NASB version of the bible: "Do not be called leaders, for One is your Leader, Christ but the greatest among you shall be your servant. Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever...
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    Christian dating and not following American brand Christianity: The First Results

    Hi, It's not about ANYONE leading! It's about Elders being examples and making sure the body of Christi is growing along proper lines, which is to say biblical lines: Fruit & Gifts of the Holy Spirit Jesus is the leader. I don't understand why that is so difficult to accept by people. Maybe...
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    Christian dating and not following American brand Christianity: The First Results

    Hi Everyone, I'd like to quickly post my experience, in a looong time, of dating a Christian sister who has been denominationalized: We met via a dating site and then met in person. All seemed well until biblical doctrine was discussed. Things didn't go south however! LOL Essentially the old...