Reply to Pastor Buck (21/01/2009 20:52:14)Hi all I like to visit this site now and again to see what is going on for the Ex revivalist.
Welcome! I am glad that you take an interest in whats happening with us, hope you find that indeed we are doing well!
I read with interest the articles that are written on here and wonder if everyone is still confused and searching for the way to at one with God?
Personally for me, there was while I was in the fellowship I was always confused. As soon as I started to let go of all the Revival ideas, what the Pastor and Everyone says and all I found the way to be at one with God.
it seems that no one has an opinion that everyone agrees with.
Lets read what Romans 14 says:
1Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. 2One man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3The
man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the
man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for
God has accepted him. 4Who
are you to judge someone Else's servant? To his own master he stands or
falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand. 5One
man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers
every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 6He
who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat,
eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does
so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. 8If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
9For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. 10You,
then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your
brother? For we will all stand before God's judgment seat. 11It is written:
" 'As surely as I live,' says the Lord,
'every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will confess to God.' "12So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
13Therefore
let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind
not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way. 14As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. 15If
your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer
acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom
Christ died. 16Do not allow what you consider good to be spoken of as evil. 17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, 18because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.
19Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. 20Do
not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean,
but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to
stumble. 21It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.
22So
whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God.
Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves. 23But
the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is
not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
I would also Like to ask what came first unhappiness with the oversight or issues regarding salvation?
Mainly issues regarding salvation. But there's so many other things I don't even know where to begin.
Peace my friend.
