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...on our third day without power, thank God for the Generac...

IMO, 'young' is the problem, experience and worldly wisdom surely helps,,,perhaps as much as academic knowledge (NOT Bible knowledge).

 

Where to find these in scripture?

 

Now your talking

 

And you still want to live down there

 

Kyredneck adapts by building a system of utilities i.e cistern for water and generator for alternative power source. If I committed to a move, I would have to adapt to the environment and since I’ve not heard from my son in Florida today, I will need to reach out to him this morning

 

Our Studied Elders teaching the Word to the congregation via an integrated congregation; our entire church singing hymns acapella and; where 2 or 3 gather in my name….It is a blessing to be simple

 

No Sonny Piles, no Mike G, no brother’s Montgomery , no Chris Crouse (who BTW offered to help out a failing Baptist church in NW NJ by coming up to preach the word). At times like this, trust in the Providence of God to fill in the blanks. He is always planting seeds.

 

A common problem found in churches today is churches evangelizing other Christians - the number of attendees indicating the best church.

I moved away recently, but my former church was surrounded by excellent churches - many of them were quite large in number.
The pastor let it be known that we were not in the business of evangelizing Christians.
We didn't ignore the needs of our church fellowship but we were not specifically trying to be excellent in everything we did.
Our congregation didn't grow much... ~150-200... but we were healthy.
Our goal was reaching out to those needing to hear the Good News.

The church would integrate a bible student into the church as a song leader and/or youth minister.
They'd be with us sometimes for many years.
Not infrequently they would be given the opportunity to preach a message.
Of course there would be a learning curve...
The congregation was very accepting of the needs of others.

Part of the problem today is that we expect so much from our church leaders, excellence from the very start, that many of the young learners are weeded out very early.

Rob

 

Actually, no, I won't Scarlett. IMO, each Church is autonomous and can decide their practice as they wish. If they so desire to have hard rock bands for their accompaniment, fine. Just don't judge those that prefer acaplla, and so on.....

 

And so on …. Like attacking fellow Christians with claims like, “you don’t follow scripture” and “you are a Calvinist… so you are pagan” stuff like that stuff.

So the bottom line then becomes the statement, “You go to your church and I will go to mine.”

 

Maybe not in New Jersey

 

I live West on I80… several years ago now most of the Baptist churches began to change their names in an effort to entice the RC’s to join. Pathetic. The Methodists, Presbyterians & Episcopals all went liberal, then Woke, then closed their doors. There are still some Lutherans but not many. There is an OPC and they still attract very Orthodox Presbys but that’s slow now. We still have plenty of RC’s of different varieties if you happen to be Polish. Greek, Irish, Italian or blended. There is one big woke Methodist church here who has even started a Saturday mass like service to draw in Catholics (can you imagine)!