Tuesday, April 01, 2008
church really whats point part 2
i leave these thoughts out to my friends and bible/ym major friends for their insight or even bible professors Yesterday I went to church with some of my friends and i found some very interesting feelings and views on christianity for myself we as christians are suppose to be the church, and were called to love and encourage each other whether we are friends or not were all brothers and sisters in Christ but what i find interesting as christians we have decided to tear our selves part and the devil is having a blast while we knock our selves by this i mean if your ( these are typical stereotypes of different groups not specific to any one person i have all of these in my fam and im going off them) Baptist many of them feel like they have the right form of christianity and if your presbyterian you feel as though you usually dont take stand on tough issues your right with God better than others those who are Catholic feel that you need to go though x many amount of saints to get to heaven and talk to God, and if your church of christ your the only right faith and Episcopalian your baptized as a baby and forever saved from all sin however the thing i find interesting is that no one form of christianity has it right because first were never to divided in the first place were supoose to be the church and not 50 forms of it and even though are difference in the end and in the skim of it are very small, our similarites should be what we focus on but we dont and we dicied to focus on our differences and judge other forms of christianity and try be explain why which ever form of christianity you choose is better than all the others and people want to know why were not saving souls and why we lose people its simply becuase we judge people on the stupidest things and reasons and on top of that were trying to one up eachother insted trying to help eachother out and say im of coc but hey if cathlic is more for you ill go with you or ill help find a church or hey i want to be a christian and im here for you every step of the way see where as in so many others forms of reglion they dont fight each other some do yes but us as christians should be working with our brothers and sisters no matter what form of christianity they are cause in the end God could careless what form of christainty you were apart of he going to look at your heart and judge you off that and i believe he would rather have a person who is a christian fighting to save souls of people than us worrying about why our form christainity is better than another and were suposed to be united how can we say were united when were fighting eachother so for these reasons im still struggling to find the purpose in "church"
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i'm not church of Christ; I'm Christian - no more, no less
Hey Margaret!
First, I just wanted to say thanks for all the support you have shown me and my family while we have been coping with the passing of granny. Thank you so much for that.
I was just reading your blog and I was very interested in the points you were making. I think we go to church for support, encouragement, and fellowship with fellow brothers and sisters. Being a Christian is hard, there are always doubts, temptations, and challenges that we have to face daily. These make us stronger in our faith, but we need other Christians around us to help us through the trying times and rejoice with us during the good times. God knows that as humans we struggle with sin, and he also knows it ia a lot easier to handle sin when you have many believers around you to keep you accountable.
It does stink though that there are so many different denominations out there with so many differing opinions on what a Christian should be. God doesn't want it like that, which Paul explains in Romans 14:19. Overall, everyone needs to read the Bible for themselves, letting the Word speak to them, and then worshipping God in the way God calls them to worship.
A church is a home where you can worship God with your fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. I encourage you to not give up on that search. Keep praying about it and keep your heart and mind open so that you can receive whatever God is trying to show you. I'll be praying for you.
Thanks again for all your support. You are a great friend.
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