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I am in my 3rd Pastorate. Been at this church for 5 years. My own mistake - I "assumed" the church had a constitution and bylaws, as it was organized in 1880. We are now (apparently again) harvesting the "fruit" of the lack of such documents. I only found out officially that there was no...

Of course, yes, I know there is no perfect community- until Jesus returns. BUT I'm probably a bit of a strange one and JUST CANNOT seem to find a real community (or church for that matter) out there that even remotely fits the mold of what I'm looking to surround my family with at this phase in...

I imagine that I'm not alone. I've attended various churches from the time I was 10 years old. There was a time I wandered from God. Mostly I was not solid in what I believed in those days, I was very much argumentative in those days :oops: and I thought I knew much more than I did . I was...

I was asked by the pastoral staff about how they might open the church up again when thing relaxed a bit in our area. My initial response was “I have no idea how to do it”, and a related the extreme measures our medical office is currently using to insure safety of both the staff and our...

What are your thoughts on it? Have you had any engagement or encounters in your area?

How is the local church surviving during the isolation of the viral quarantine? How is the church staff surviving without the input of the weekly collection. Budgets surely have been stretched. I can’t help but wonder if one reason some churches are so eager to embrace the return to normal is...

Does anyone on the BB play church league softball? We’re gearing up for the start of another season!

The TRUE CHURCH ASSEMBLIES of THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, SCRIPTURALLY ORGANIZED and CONTAINING and HOLDING to THE DOCTRINAL DISTINCTIONS LISTED, here: Baptist History by Baptists 1. Identifying Jesus' churches. in those early times, were entirely independent, none of them being subject to any...

THE FIRST SATANIC ERROR INVENTED for THE DEVELOPMENT of SATAN'S FALSE 'CHURCH', was to influence the fleshly reasoning of men to 'come up with' their own 'idea' of 'church' government. WITHOUT GOD, APART from GOD and in DENIAL and OPPOSITION to THE ETERNAL WORD of GOD. ... 1. Church...

"In this booklet" (re: In Search Of The Universal, Invisible Church (Chapter 1) by Elder Milburn Cockrell - Sovereign Grace Landmark Baptist Pastor) "I shall not inquire any more as to what theologians and creeds say about the church. "There is no such thing as an inerrant creed or an...

Re: In Search Of The Universal, Invisible Church (Chapter 1) by Elder Milburn Cockrell - Sovereign Grace Landmark Baptist Pastor Strict covenant theologians have a much larger church than dispensationalists. They say: "The catholic or universal Church, which is invisible, consists of the...

Noone seems to Love God. My commentary in red. The commentary of the carnal mind in orange. Re: In Search Of The Universal, Invisible Church (Chapter 1) by Elder Milburn Cockrell - Sovereign Grace Landmark Baptist Pastor THE MEANING OF 'EKKLESIA' Throughout all Spiritually Perverted...

Did Jesus call John the First Baptist? (Twentieth-century Baptists do not claim identity with John, as a rule. If they could, it would be a high honor indeed). Jesus strongly implied that John was the first baptizer in Matthew 21:24-27; Mark 11:27-33 and Luke 20:1-8. "The baptism of John...

Baptist History Notebook Chapter 2 JESUS ESTABLISHES HIS CHURCH [p. 7] "We have observed the persecution of truth, first of Israel and secondly of the church. "Satan persecuted the churches of Jesus Christ first by the Jews. "This persecution is recorded in the book of Acts. "It is also...

" Throughout Baptist History JESUS' churches, that have been called 'Ana'-Baptists, or 'Re'-Baptizers*, and many other names, were NEVER Catholics or Protestants. ... JESUS' churches, were generally called 'Ana'-Baptists, or 'Re'-Baptizers*, because True Baptist's ONLY BAPTISE BELIEVERS...

A DEAD BRIDE? “You also are become dead to the law by the Body of Christ; that you should be married to Another, even to Him Who is Raised from the Dead” [Romans 7:4]. “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and Gave Himself for It” [Ephesians 5:25 — read on through...

A HOLY Temple. “Now, therefore, you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, “and are built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the Chief Corner Stone; “in Whom all the building fitly framed...

Here is this 3rd section of the introduction of Milburn Cockrel's book and the link to it. The Teaching in there takes every time the word 'church,' is mentioned in The Bible and it's interpretation, as far as, what did it mean to the people it was written to and what God Intended. (not what...

This is the next little section from Milburn Cokrel from In Search Of The Universal, Invisible Church (Chapter 1) by Elder Milburn Cockrell - Sovereign Grace Landmark Baptist Pastor "Strict covenant theologians have a much larger church than dispensationalists. "They say: "The catholic or...

Baptist meaning 'The Lord' s churches as He Designed His churches which have Scriptural Believer, 's Baptism of John the Baptist, I. e., not because they were named' Baptist', or that all those named 'Baptist' have New Testament beliefs, or Authority. THE LORD'S CHURCHES PERPETUITY PROVEN by...