Are Old Fashioned Baptist Churches shrinking?

Oh yes! Who's bringing the reverse evoluted progressively primitive Baptist Fried Chicken?

That made my brain hurt!

 

Now your talkin!!!

LEt's fry that bird!!!!
little bit of mashed taters, cole slaw, rolls, carrot cake, mmmmmmmm....

When's our next church dinner...
Oh yeah, Sunrise service.

 

Speaking of committees...It's an oversize photo, but check THIS out...

:laugh:

 

And thanks to our superhero TinyTim and his sidekick Rbell, yet another contentious thread has been relegated to total irrelevance.

Join us next time for....

(insert annoying reverb)

The Adventures of TinyTim and RBell, the Thread Hijackers!

 

We are saying the same thing then, for I agree all churches are involved in numbers.

Completely agree.

The "great commission" may be for some today, which is a possibility. But where is the "rapture" found in the great commission?

This is the reason I see two (2) gospels, the reason I see two (2) foundations offered on the foundation of Jesus Christ, as the Bible shows us, and they are (will be) brought together. I choose not to be a proselyte to the "Kingdom Church", but to the "Body Church" faith in my freedom of choice. It looks to be we all have freedom of choice of where we wish to be in the "Kingdom of Heaven".

I find Damascus Road in my Bible.

Your choice. Forgive me as I now follow Him on to heaven, which is His purpose for me.

 

Rightly dividing as Paul calls it.

 

Is that the same as parting on the right or left?

Sorry... my last hi-jack I almost promise!!!

 

Theological combover!

I made no such hijack promise (j/k)

 

We already have a "jolly chubby man, and bunny rabbits in our mist". Now "chickens"?

 

Woman's hair, beautiful hair,
What words of praise I utter.
But oh, how sick it makes me feel,
To find it in the butter. :laugh:

 

That's O. K. for our God is a God of division, and we always come back finding we are on the "other side" when those troubled waters come together.

 

Hey now, I'm not that jolly!:laugh:

 

Ahh, but he says, "rightly dividing (or handling) the word of truth."



With the direction this thread is taking perhaps I should have called it "Hare-splitting." :laugh:

 

I part mine in the middle.

Reminds me of an old joke- A lady goes to a photo shop and asks the technician to retouch a photo of her recently departed husband. She has a photograph of him wearing a hat, but she wants the retouch sans hat.

The tech says to her, "Madam, in order to do that I need to know what side of his head he parted his hair on."

The lady replies, "I don't remember. But you should be able to tell once you take his hat off." :laugh:

Thank you, thank you, you have been a great audience. I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress!

 

I thought you were. A man happy in the Lord.

 

You just quoted Paul to whom Christ from heaven revealed "truth" as we are to understand it today.

Time to eat. You and tinytim have driven me to the dinner table.

 

¡Buen provecho!

 

Thump thump thump;

I am beating my chest to make sure you know I am a rooster.

 

Thanks. Finding no better words "Bon Appetit"

 

Bob, you are one fowl individual.

What'sa matter? Chicken?