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  1. NewCreation435

    Holidays and Married Couples

    Christmas to New years is usually stressful because the house is full of relatives who don't know when to leave. My grandfather use to say that relatives and fish start to smell after three days LOL
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    Your Heritage

    I have a half brother and a half sister. Different fathers. I was curious about health history when I searched for my birth parents. My birth father died in 1983 so I never got a chance to talk to him.
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    the meaning of Baptism

    no, not really
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    My Thankful Thread

    thanks I needed that. i have been in a grumpy cat kind of mood all day as you might have been able to tell
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    the meaning of Baptism

    I'm sorry that makes absolutely no sense to me. How an infant would be brought to faith by His Word through baptism. The thread links don't provide proof. They provide evidence of other conversations. the Bible is the only document I am going to go to for proof and I don't see anywhere that...
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    the meaning of Baptism

    So what I am left with is what baptism meant to those who are being baptized and why it was done. When people were baptized by John it includes other activities around it such as repentance and turning to God. For example, when the soliders came to him he told them to be content with their...
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    Is God indifferent about denominations?

    There is a variety of approaches even among Baptists.
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    Is God indifferent about denominations?

    to be honest, I am not sure as I haven't been personally involved in the leadership or anything like that. We don't have Sunday School by the way. We have groups that meet during the week. I don't know if when you agree to be a group leader they ask you belief questions. That could be...
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    Is God indifferent about denominations?

    To some extent. Most Baptist churches have a more evangelistic emphasis in their sermons and ask people to come forward for altar calls at the end of the service. We don't do that. I have asked my pastor about why and he said that people generally were not asked to pray the sinner's prayer...
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    Is God indifferent about denominations?

    Yes. They are asked before and also right before they are baptized in front of the congregation
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    Is God indifferent about denominations?

    We do not have a formal joining process. If you attend then your considered a member. I've been going for about four or five months now and have never been asked to join or seen people come forward at the end of the service to join.
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    Is God indifferent about denominations?

    It does. I wish it practiced the Lord's Supper more often. We have had at least six people baptized this month on two different services. It was by immersion.
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    Is God indifferent about denominations?

    In an earlier post, I gave a link to the doctrinal statement of the church. It is very basic, but I believe that it is a good foundational doctrinal statement. I do think there are at least some doctrines we should have some agreement on. Being non denominatlonal doesn't mean that anything...
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    Is God indifferent about denominations?

    The church does have a belief statement, but it isn't a creed or confession http://www.thesummitchurch.net/about/beliefs/
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    Is God indifferent about denominations?

    Several ways. In the church I attend now decision are made locally by church leadership. A main office somewhere is not in charge of who is in the pulpit, not in control of the property and not making decisions for us. We choose as a church what groups to get involved in and there is a great...
  16. NewCreation435

    celebrating Halloween

    I wouldn't take it as an insult. I think if you are really excited about your faith and living for him you would be seen as extreme or at least odd in most christian churches. Sadly, if your really living for him in most churches you wouldn't fit in really well since most churches are lukewarm...
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    the meaning of Baptism

    It also seems unlikely to me given the low social status of children in those days that they would be included. My problem with infant baptism is that infants can't make a conscious decision for themselves. I wrestled with this for quite a while since I was baptized myself as an infant in the...
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    Is God indifferent about denominations?

    I actually attend a non denominational church and have for months now. God sees people as either having their name in the Lamb's Book of Life or not, saved or not. if they are saved then they are a part of the church. i think we will be surprised in heaven when we see who is there.
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    Drain the Hollywood Swamp

    yes, my wife has watched her share of those Hallmark movies also. Within about 15 minutes you already know how basically they are going to end. Always a happy ending.
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    Is God indifferent about denominations?

    Col 1:17-19 NIV says 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell...
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