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Well done for sharing this.

From what I read you do understand the concept of closed group, you just haven't experienced it. It would not make sense at all in Catholicism, and is rare in the US institutional church. Sometimes you will find a house group that will be too full and not taking people anymore, so that would be...

Because they feel that the top-down institutional approach is doing them wrong, probably going against former values of the church, and likely already had been doing those things before the thing about the prayer was added or possibly even before the concept of membership was added or changed...

This one is kind of circumstancial. Because what is in my head and I think your head is that there is some kind of regular meeting called a "prayer meeting" in which the whole church gathers. In this case, only allowing certain people to pray is either heretical or going to require a lot of...

There are a ton of rules. So many. Not the least of which is "submit to one another" which is one that means more rules can be made at any given time. The thing that is different is we don't try to obtain status with God by following rules, and we know that we will not always follow the...

If a church is a place and time and not a community, which is true most places, and you continue to "go"... then traditionalism is your master

God says we are already members of one body. He also defines the way the members of the body are to interact with One Another, but we disregard that as something that could never be. The Christians still want it to be defined by the structure of the service, which God says very little about...

I have a similar but different question. Does honor your parents mean anything in my weird case where they stopped talking to me at all at around age 12 and that was 35 years ago and they still don't?

I know nothing of marriage, probably never will. It sound like both of you are better at such things than I would ever be. However, I have learned something of God over the years: when God makes a list, trust that it is actually the best list and try to get in sync with that. In this case...

I've heard about and worked through a handful of those particular surprises. I find it to be good, interesting, fun stuff. One of those things were you can really mine for gold in the Bible.

Always surprised by Barna's findings. Americans take kind of strange positions on things would you look at it that way. You can kind of see them believing what they want to believe according to what makes them feel good, yet stable

I've read the Bible many times over, many different kind of ways. Right now doing Daily Audio Bible, which I can do while I work. It's got most to do with why the Bible is being read through: If to get a basic functional idea then start with new testament. If as a history lesson, start in...

Oddly enough cowboy, I was answering the original question with a question. Got the idea from Ravi Zaccharias. Really glad you answered it that way that, that's a great story that you told and I thank you for it because I'm a performer too.

Wow, never would have thought something like Enya's sister in a hundred years. Really glad I asked that one.

How can I believe in someone I cannot see? The same way as I just posted this. Why? Who is asking?

I need some relaxing Christian music to fall asleep to. I am trying to start the day with Bible and end it with something like this.

Churches kind of everywhere here in Florida, particularly in Polk county. However, they are basically groups of people who think the church is a school where God is taking attendance and beyond that they just want to take a nap.

DDPYoga. Flexibility, youth, strength, focus. balance, and tone. I hope to have abs at 50 years old. BANG!

I always wondered where this idea came from. It's not strictly Biblical, it's not strictly literal either. It's a strange place where Christians say something completely different from what they do. "Will YOU bless the food" Someone is asked. If they do, they include something like "GOD...