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I'm speaking mainly from experience on this one, is what makes me uncomfortable as an audience member and as a fellow believer who is worshiping the same God. I believe we are all destined to walk worthy of the calling and gift we have as a member of the church and as someone who have gone up to speak and teach in a church setting. We can all learn a little from this, as we grow as a community and member of the Church of God.
5. Don't use the audience members as your personal tool for sermons. I understand the pastors need to rebuke and encourage the congregation in his sermon, but to do that in a subtle way without putting specifics out there can lead the ones who need to hear the gospel away from the church. My advice to the pastor is to please rebuke in private, bring two or more witnesses when there is still no repentance, and when that fails, rebuke with a council of elders. Be sure that people are on a need to know basis with these heavy issues that require excommunication. When the council of elders still does not convince them to repent then treat then revoke their membership from the church in a respectable way and still in a private setting. Not every church member should be granted authority to deal with others sin and your primary sermon topic should come from the word of God. 4. Head to Correction! Don't speak arrogantly or ignorantly If a church member rebukes you, it is important to take what they are saying into consideration when presented with a theology and a way of going about practices that are different than yours. I understand the need not to correct the entire congregations ways out of forming a habit and a likeness to them. I understand that as a church we do things primarily based upon scripture. When ever a pastor presented with a congregant rebuking or correction, I believe it primarily up to the pastor to represent the image of the good shepherd and move forward with correction in conversation when that correction applies to them and the church or when the correction needs to be established. Being a pastor doesn't make you right, and criticism is necessary when dealing with something as fragile as the word of God as one of the misused subjects as the Bible seems to be. We are to model Christ correctly in and out of service and according to God's Word not our own, a pastor must be humble. 3. Don't speak hypocritically. I had a professor at the college I was attending in 2021, tell the class about people who look at Christianity from the outside as hypocritical. His response to people who tell him that the church is filled with hypocritical people is, "That's us!" I don't understand this as Christians are called out of darkness to walk in the newness of life not according to the rest of the world. Being a Christian does not mean you are exempt from making mistakes and sinning intentionally, in fact I would say that sin is more than a mistake we make but it's something intentional we do. Why a Christian cannot be known as hypocrite is because it damages our witness to others as well as your soul. 2. Be patient. Please be patient in building your congregations and in the spiritual lives of your congregation. There's a point to the time that you put in with your congregation, anger and aggression does not help. In everything in life I have only most recently learned and am still learning we must be contempt in every situation given to us. We should not head to prosperity and we should not cut discipling short in order to bring about a larger congregation, we should promote Christ and His name above materialism which covers the sons and daughters of the faith as well as the church building itself. Preach Christ no matter how many people are in the door, preach Christ no matter how many people get offended, preach Christ no matter how big or small the church doors get. 1. Stay away from false teachings! There is no honor, in not studying scripture for yourself. There is no honor when you go to your congregation and don't even know the historic, theological, philosophical explanations to what the scripture is. It's more than a motivational speech. The gospel is more than a political message. The Gospel is not a guide to receive physical blessings in the name of our LORD, God damn the prosperity Gospel. The Gospel is not a means to an end, the Gospel is the message that proclaims who redeemed us from sin. There's one God and there's one way to get this out there, you may think of it as condemning to call out someone who is a sinner. I think of it as condemning that God sent His one and only Son to die because I was so wretched of a man that i couldn't see the light while I was nailing His hands to a a wooden plank. We preach Christ crucified above all things.
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take a look at some images I'll be adapting to my next bumper video! Should be good! Why time travel is not possible:
An argument my philosophy friends and I have is if time travel is possible, if so how would it be possible. My guess is that it's not and I have a few different reasons why based on observational science. #1 Time is physical. Time is just a physicality, based on the earths movement in rotation around a star at a certain distance away just perfect enough to give us warmth and comfort we need to grow trees, melt ice, warm us up in seasons and cool us down in the coldest days of the year..............I hate the ice. #2 What we created We created watches, sun dials, clocks, cell phones in order to read what position the sun is in the sky. So I want to clarify, turning clock forward or backward won't change what position the earth is in relation to the sun. #3 What if we could stop the Earth If we stop the earths rotation around the sun, we would still keep moving, I'm sure of it. The earth standing still wont change the fact of whether or not you'll go to work or not, clocks will keep moving, wind currents may still be active, but one side of the earth will be super heated and the other side of the earth will be Hell frozen over. There may be flooding, but as far as I'm concerned will still be alive just panicked, same if the earth moves backwards. That may have an affect on the human body but not always to the point of death, movement and kinetic energy can weigh a person down and tire them out. #4 WhaT AbOut GoD Can'T HE tRavEl tHroUgH tiMe? I'm going to say this, "Not that I know of., but it is possible." From what I see, God has the ability to predict the future based on what he sees, he's able to speak things into existence and change the heart of a Man. He's able to give you visions that work as analogies for your life, but the entire definition for a prophet is not to tell the future, no no no, that's an oracle. A prophet declares what God has told them, and usually it's about what will happen when His people will not repent. He does live out side of time space and matter, so I will continue to say that is where is eternal kingdom is, but he himself does not submit to what he has established in the solar system. #5 My friend's argument for time travel. ..... lol .What friend's.... So they say that Time travel is possible but only to move forward in time...…..did anyone else catch what was said? It is possible to travel forward in time because we do that every day, not necessarily by choice, but by existence that God has established in the universe, there's no where you can go here on earth to move faster of time, that would require a working fore knowledge of what 10 billion people in the world would do and what would happen next, but just like a man can't predict a lightning strike, we can't predict whether or not things will get better or worse. Only God can and He has told us in the Bible what we are to expect as Christians living in an unhinged society built off power and the decline human freedom. I don't believe there's such a thing as timeline, it's just a tool, that tells us what happened and where, if you want to get into a physicality of that then watch the Loki show on Disney plus, it's a fairy tale. So where ever you go I encourage you to let God order your steps, things don't always happen for a reason, but there is someone who is sovereign over all things in life and death. |
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