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Posted September 2, 2010 by steve

1 Corinthians 1:¹⁸ The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God. ¹⁹ As the Scriptures say,

"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise
and discard the intelligence of the intelligent.”^<e>

²⁰ So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world's brilliant debaters? God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish. ²¹ Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe. ²² It is foolish to the Jews, who ask for signs from heaven. And it is foolish to the Greeks, who seek human wisdom. ²³ So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it's all nonsense.

²⁴ But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles,^<f> Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God's weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength.

²⁶ Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world's eyes or powerful or wealthy^<g> when God called you. ²⁷ Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. ²⁸ God chose things despised by the world,^<h> things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important.

It always makes me laugh hearing so called scholars debating God. Don't they know in God's eyes they are fools. They are fools because they are to smart to know the truth. Their wisdom has blinded them to the truth and is leading them to hell. The Gospel is so simple. Jesus died for your sins so that you don't have to go to hell. All you have to do is except him as your Lord and Savior and live your life as a disciple of Christ. It is so simple a cave man can do it. That is the problem it is to simple. As Paul said the Jews seek signs and the Greeks human wisdom. Mankind wants some kind of miraculous sign and they want it all spelled out for them. Well the sign was Christ rising from the dead and the wisdom they seek is all in the Bible. But they reject the resurrection of Christ and the Bible as foolishness all to their own doom. Because the last sign will be Christ returning to rapture his church and render judgment on this world. At that time it will be to late for mankind to get it right.

New denomination

Posted September 2, 2010 by Jeff

The nation's newest church denomination has been created by Lutherans breaking away from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which approved gay clergy in a contentious vote last year.

The new North American Lutheran Church's provisional Constitution was approved Friday morning at a meeting in Ohio, with 18 churches in 12 states from Pennsylvania toSouth Dakota signed on as charter members of the new church body.

Formation of the North American Lutheran Church is the culmination of long-standing divisions within the ELCA that date to the 1990s. Last year, those divisions deepened when the ELCA voted to allow non-celibate gay pastors to serve in its 10,239 congregations.

The 4.5 million-member ELCA is the nation's largest Lutheran denomination and the dominant one across much of the Upper Midwest.

In-fighting among Lutherans has been seen in recent years within other mainline denominations such as Episcopalians and Presbyterians as they struggle with issues surrounding homosexuality, says Wendy Cadge, an associate professor of sociology at Brandeis University who studies religion in contemporary American culture.

"Some of these denominations have had these divisions since the 1980s, and the divisions become most clear around these kinds of social issues," Cadge says.

Now, the Rev. Paull Spring predicts that more than 200 churches will join the North American Lutheran Church by the end of 2011, he told the Centre Daily Times, a newspaper in his hometown of State College, Pa. The 18 churches which have joined so far are in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

Spring is chairman of Lutheran CORE, one of the reform groups helping to start the new denomination. Spring is also a nominee to become the new denomination's first bishop, who will serve an initial one-year term. Regional leaders, known as deans, will report to the bishop.

"By design, the people are only being elected for one year," said the Rev. David Baer of Whitewood, S.D., one of the leaders in Lutheran CORE. "The real intent is that Lutheran CORE is giving birth to this but not defining what it's going to look like forever. The people that join are going to make those decisions."

So far, 199 ELCA congregations nationwide have decided to leave the denomination since last summer's vote on gay clergy, says John Brooks, a spokesman for the Chicago-based denomination. More churches are voting later this year on whether to break ties with the ELCA.

Initially, Baer said, the new denomination will have its offices in the Twin Cities suburb of New Brighton, Minn., which also is home to WordAlone Ministries, a key group behind the reform efforts.

Conservative Lutherans have long thought the ELCA was straying from Lutheran tradition and biblical authority.

Angered by a 1999 partnership with the Episcopal Church, Lutherans in the WordAlone Network began discussing the idea of forming a new denomination as early as fall 1999, according to accounts of meetings held across the country.

Origin of the Church (Congregation).

Posted September 2, 2010 by steven zomok in Education, Family & Home, Society, Religion

Some haves asked if the church started in Old Testament times or after the time of the Lords ministry.

This depends on what one means by church! If one is asking about the various church organizations with their various creeds and governments as well as the buildings then that pretty much comes after the ministry of the Lord. Much information can be found on the many denominations BUT if one is talking about the true church or Congregation of the Lords people then that extends back into the Old Testament.

The word Church (derived from Kurikos) is usually the word our english bibles use to translate the Greek word Ekklesia, which means "called out ones". It is often translated "congregation" or "assembly". It is the people of God assembled, not the building(s) that constitute the church in both testament periods. Interestingly, in the Septuagint, an early Greek form of the Old Testament, the word Ekklesia is also often used to describe the Lords true people.

God has only one chosen people and it is now under the New Covenant, which has replaced the Old Covenant. Just a casual reading of Ephesians chapter 2, alone, should suffice to make it clear.

Pastor Zomok

HALLELUJAH VILLAGE CHURCH TRUST

Posted September 1, 2010 by Pr,T.John Ravichandran in Religion

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YOUR PHYSICAL VISIT OUR REMOTE VILLAGE CHURCHES AND MINISTRIES WE ARE FAITH BASED CHRISTIAN, FULL GOSPEL, PENTECOSTAL, NON-PROPFIT, NON-DENOMINATIONAL FULL TIME ,CHARITY, NOBAL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES WE ARE INVITE YOU AND YOUR TEAM TO MAKE MISSION TRIP IN VELLORE TAMIL NADU STATE INDIA AND MINISTRING TO US AND ENCOURAGE THE VILLAGE PASTORS AND PEOPLES WE ARE NEEDS YOURS USED CHRISTIAN BOOKS, CHRISTIAN MAGAZINES, TRACTS SECOND HAND BIBLES FOR PASTORS BIBLE SCHOOL AND NEW CHURCH COMERS DON’T FORGET TO PRAY FOR US FOLLOWING PRAYER REQUESTS:
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