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Have you read this book? You said: "A bishop is not free to privately interpret scripture, but only pass down the traditional Apostolic interpretation of Scripture." Then why dont they?

I find it interesting that many RC priests and bishops do not (have not) submitted to the policies of the Pope!

Excellent post (#18), Van! you hit the nail on the head! When Jerry Farwell went to be with the Lord, I wonder how many members would have left if his son had not become the pastor???

Because we are an automatous local Baptist church - ie the SBC has no control over us. Our affiliation is strictly voluntarily! We are NOT required to support SBC missionaries, use lifeway, attend any meetings, what Bible version to use, and ect. In fact, did you know there are SBC churches...

Why what?

But how many total staff members?

then we should sing like they did in the NT times - without songbooks - and are we sure they sat - maybe they stood. If they did sit - they probably sat on the ground - so we need to sit on the ground. Now, the Bible does say to do all things decently and in order. Having a membership - with...

My belief is that a church (along with associations) should be starting new local churches. My pet peeve is when folks are traveling 30-50 miles to attend a church (yes, there are exceptions - ie low population....)

Of course it is 2 - when you round up!

our church does affiliate with the SBC and we are still independent!

lots of things churches do are not mentioned in Scripture -ie pews and songbooks - unless prohibited - it is not a problem

OKAY we will let Cathode have the last word. Do not start a similar thread for at least 15 days

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I stopped by the BCNY yesterday. They were preparing letters to mail to the churches for our State Convention. Well, they just handed me my envelope and thus, I saved the BCNY - 75 Cents! Boy, that made me feel great! well at least for the rest of the day. Mrs Salty was buying a new car...

On another thread, it was mentioned that Bellevue Bap has a membership of some 30,000, but only about 7,000 attend weekly. (& that includes on-line) so that amounts to about only 23% of all members attending! Granted, some are in nursing homes, some work on Sunday, ect - So those who do not...

I edited my post ( # 5 ) while you were posting # 6

But how many attend every week?? According to Ministry Watch: "Bellevue is one of the largest congregations in the Southern Baptist Convention. Between in-person and online worship services, it has reported a weekly attendance of 7,382 people."

Call it what you want - but that is what they believe. So let me ask you this - if a person does not believe in the concept - of the Trinity - can that individual still get saved and go to Heaven?