ByGrace said:
I really hope I read your post wrong. It seems you are now saying that the guy at your "wifes" church died because he was a methodist. Since you make a point of pointing that at one point you were a methodist and now you have gotten out of it, I assume that you feel they are wrong also. Maybe you need to get the Bible out my friend. You seem to be trashing a whole part of the body of Christ. I pray I am wrong.
Jeremiah 17:10
I, the Lord, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give every man according to his ways,
According to the fruit of his doings.
I left the Methodist Church because the pastor there said that I could not be involved in two different churchs at the same time. He told me I had to choose one church and go with just that church.
Then I went to talk to an associate pastor at the other church I was attending and he said he had no problem with me attending two different churchs. But he advised because of the Methodist Pastors attitude that I should leave the Methodist Church. Also my wife advised that we should leave the Methodist Church.
Right now we are thinking about becoming a part of a Pilgram Church. It is more traditional, but my wife seems to like it. So she is thinking about making that her church and we will just go back and forth between the two.
If you study the sermons of John Wesley there is a lot of good teaching there. But even when Wesley was still alive, he was lamenting about how the Methodists were getting away from his teaching. I tried for 5 years to get people to return to Wesley's teaching, but I was not able to. They are just to comfortable where they are at.
http://gbgm-umc.org/UMhistory/Wesley/sermons/
Rev. 3:17
Because you say, 'I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing'--and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked--
This is a good example of science also. They think they are wealthy, and have need of nothing, but they do not know how "wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked--" they really are.
They do not see, yet is is there in the open for them to see. There is nothing hidden, there is nothing concealed. Dorean Grays portrait is no longer hidden away in the attic. It is out there in the open for everyone to see and examine.