- Yes 20 (40%)
- No 12 (24%)
- Don't know 18 (36%)
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I pray that the Lord will come soon, but I don't know when he is coming back - the Bible simply does not tell us. In the meantime, today is our opportunity to be holy and work for Christ and the gospel. That is the best preparation before we meet with him in the air.
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Amen to that, brother Joe, Amen!
"To BE holy and WORK for Christ" this was addressed to all of us believers in Christ and now is time to cooperate with the grace of faith by directing our will to obey and DO good works (love)for and with Christ.
Amen, brother, praise be Jesus in All!
1 Corinthians 13:2
“…though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity (love), I am nothing.”(KJV)
Jesus tells us that love is the key to life. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself" - Matthew 22:37-38 (KJV)
Love never fails....And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Colossians 3:14
And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
Catholic teaching on Justification:
We are save by grace alone through faith working with love and NOT by faith ALONE!
1 John 4:8
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. (NIV)
As one of the thousands, from Pastor Jeffrey Steele's blog, a former Presbyterian Pastor, Anglican and now a Catholic priest:
"What I became aware of was that it was almost impossible to say 'the Church teaching is' within the Anglican church because there are so many various opinions on matters of sacraments, liturgy, morality, scripture etc. What I did not want to experience anymore was proclaiming the teaching of the Church only to end up defending myself rather than the Anglican church defending me. This has become an ever-increasing impossibility that is no secret to the entire Anglican world. My preaching would always be seen as a matter of personal opinion rather than having the authority of the Magisterium that backs up what I teach publicly. Of course there is dissent in the Catholic Church but it is always that, dissent towards what Mother Church proclaims as authoritatively true. It is the truth of Mother Church that I embrace as my own deep personal faith."
"Lumen Gentium reminded me that, "Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved."
Jesus said to His Apostles (modern Bishops)Luke 10:16
"The person who listens to you listens to ME, and the person who rejects you rejects Me. The person who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me."
Amen.
I read from some protestant blogs that there is no difference of protestant's from Catholic church's disunity which some catholics consider themselves conservative and some with liberal views AFTER the proclamation of truth by the Church?
Now let us give just 2-real life scenarios:
1. Artificial contraception:
A. The Catholic Church: declared and taught consistently that such practice is immoral and intrinsically evil. Those catholics who still insist in doing so, the Church said they are committing acts contrary (sins) to the Will of God.
B. Protestant Churches: Taught that it is not immoral and thus accepted as normal and part of their christian marriage life, in other words abandoned and departed from Truth.
2. Gay-Marriage:
A. Catholic Church: Taught and declared consistently that acts of homosexual practice, co-habitation and the marriage of same sex is contrary to the Will of God. Those catholics who still practice these acts the Church said they are committing sins.
B. Protestant Churches: Some major protestant, evangelical churches taught otherwise that gay-marriage is an accepted christian norm and not in any way contradictory with the Bible. As they say, Jesus accepted all people including gay-people and their way of life. In other words, abandoned and departed from Biblical Truth.
It is clear that the former is about being disobedient to an already declared Truth and the latter is a departure from Truth.
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