Topic: For your eyes only
warrburk's photo
Mon 05/28/07 07:33 AM
Does being a member of a church growp make you saved?

wonderman37's photo
Mon 05/28/07 07:36 AM
having a personel relationship with jesus does war

thedoctor's photo
Mon 05/28/07 07:39 AM
wonderman has it!

Raindrops's photo
Mon 05/28/07 07:39 AM
No

flowerforyou

wonderman37's photo
Mon 05/28/07 07:40 AM
jesus knows your heart but talk to him let him know that you know that
you are a sinner and need him in your life.
that you know that he is the son of god and that you know that he died
on the cross for your sins also tell him you know that he rose again
from death.

AdventureBegins's photo
Mon 05/28/07 07:47 AM
Mark 10:26-27

26 And they were astonished out of measure, saying amoung themselves,
who then can be saved?

27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not
with God: for with God all things are possible.

God is the forgiver.

warrburk's photo
Mon 05/28/07 08:02 AM
The church I was raised in thinks that people who arent members of a
group arew lost
But I dont

warrburk's photo
Mon 05/28/07 08:04 AM
I do have a relationship withJesus christ and I know he lives in my
heart

wonderman37's photo
Mon 05/28/07 08:09 AM
That all that matters warr is that you know.
they are misguided indeed, Even JESUS WANTS US IN CHURCH.
You do not to go to church to be saved.
Jesus showed me that I needed to be in church in a big way.
It does not applied to everyone though.

AdventureBegins's photo
Mon 05/28/07 08:10 AM
That is why I do not go to churches.

ekklesia is the greek term in the bible which translates into church.

It is a congregation or assemblage of people with common interests and
belief systems. And is a governmental or political term.

AdventureBegins's photo
Mon 05/28/07 08:23 AM
When Jesus told Peter that upon him he would build his church he used
the word 'ekklesia'.

Ekklesia means as above (wikipedia) 'a crowd of people who were
assembled. It did not signify a "building".'

It was not until the Council of Niciea that the translation of 'Church'
as a building was subsituted for the open congregation of a 'crowd of
people assembled with a common belief'.

Jesus never said 'go worship me in a building'.

wonderman37's photo
Mon 05/28/07 08:27 AM
SORRY TYPO THOUGH WS SUPPOSE TO BE BETWEENEVEN AND JESUS

Redykeulous's photo
Mon 05/28/07 10:46 AM
War, they say in times of confustion, to go to the sourse of knowledge.
So in regards to your belief, would you go to a church? What good then,
is the written word, the Biblical texts?
Were they not meant to teach?

There have been many Christians on this site post time and time again,
that once you have accepted Christ that you will be filled with the Holy
Spirit.

Does a Church know you better than the Holy Spirit within you? Can
anyone there who would have the audacity to tell you that how you feel
has an interpretion other than what the Holy Spirit tells you? Then
DONT go. They are filled with lies meant to confuse the simple truth.

If, however, you get comfort from such gathering and are met with joy
and acceptance, and if our faith is not questioned, dismissed or looked
upon with righteous indignation, then go.

It is YOUR faith, it is what YOU feel that will make you the best
person, not what other individual doctrine has to say about it.