Who would not be welcomed in your church?
Not welcome
Discussion in 'Other Christian Denominations' started by Crabtownboy, Aug 9, 2015.
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Crabtownboy Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Nudists in their natural habitat would not be welcomed in my church.
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padredurand Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Joining is a whole different topic. -
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Crabtownboy Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Gandhi said that he might have become a Christian if he had ever met one. While a student in London he was refused entrance to church because he was from India.
Funny, the English sent missionaries to India to convert them to Christianity, but if those Christians came to England they were be refused the right to worship in an English church. -
So what was the point of the question in the first place, if you're thinking about something that happened when you were a kid and you basically admit it doesn't happen now? (By your words "let's hope that never happens again")
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Crabtownboy Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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padredurand Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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just-want-peace Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
I agree with Don; without some specific reference (a once 50+ years ago instance doesn't count), what did you aim to accomplish; that is, other than just "stirring the pot"!:sleep::rolleyes::confused: -
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Our founding pastor knew his father well and because of this parent's concern for his son, our founding pastor eventually was able to reach this teenage vagrant with the Gospel of Christ.
This hippy-looking bum took some time to realize the evil he was encouraging some of his friends to participate--for some of them it was too late for some already had a jail record, and some even committed suicide as a result of a drug overdose.
Eventually he sensed the HS working in his life....working to, as the prodigal son did, come to his senses. After this period of deep soul-searching and eventual multiple acts of repentance both to God and to those he led astray, the HS changed him completely.
He's now a man that many of our young people want to emulate his close walk with Christ. This very morning (08/09/2015) a dozen of "his youth" were led to become covenant members of our church and eventual mentors for others in their families.
As padredurand indicated, this is what our churches need to focus on, not on folks who at first glance don't appear to meet some of our hypocritical standards of the kind of people we think God approves.
Some century and a half ago a poorly-dressed and somewhat shabby looking young man slipped into a church meeting to hear an evangelist's challenge to surrender his life so completely to Jesus so that He can use him to reach those around him with the Good News of Salvation through Christ alone.
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padredurand Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
The OP inferred the church was excluding folks because they were Ferners, Funny Talking Folk, Dirty-Haired Hippies and Prius owners. -
He repented, and has proven time and again that his repentance(s) were genuine.
Isn't that what 2 Corinthians 2:6-10 urges a church to do?
Or is there something more that our church failed to do for him?
If there is more we should do for him, please post the NT passages that indicate what else we should do for him and I'll bring it to the attention of our elders, deacons, and other people in church leadership positions so that they can take the additional Biblical actions in his behalf.
Thanks in advance for supplying me with these additional NT verses. :wavey:
PS---What's the damning sin(s) of folks who are "Ferners, Funny Talking Folk, Dirty-Haired Hippies and Prius owners? The person in my post at first was almost exactly like these people. BTW, he also drove a Prius--something I've never read in my Bible is the car Satan developed and drove. -
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padredurand Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Now the feller you were talking about would describe about half the folks in my church. Grace is an amazing thing. One of our feller's testimony is, "I don't have to tell you how bad I was to tell you how good God is."
Now back to the OP. The bait the OP threw in implies the church is operating in an evil fashion. Churches with white folks are keeping the black folks out; red-blooded American churches won't let foreign looking folks through the door and uppity moneyed churches don't want to be soiled by poor folk. To prove his point he told us about Gandhi being kept out of an English church in 1888. I'm not biting. -
Crabtownboy Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Please read III John very slowly and carefully keeping in mind the subject of welcoming and authority. I think you will see why the question came to my mind. -
padredurand Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
4 I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.
5 Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever you accomplish for the brethren, and especially when they are strangers;
6 and they bear witness to your love before the church; and you will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.
7 For they went out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.
8 Therefore we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers with the truth.
I wasn't aware the church was in the habit of excluding traveling preachers. -
Bro. Curtis <img src =/curtis.gif>Site Supporter
It's quite clear that neither Crabtownboy or Ghandi have any ideas whatsoever about how the Holy Spirit works.
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