DIVISION IN THE CHURCH
We might sum up the divisions in this church this way according to Parsons:
i. "I follow Paul" -- This group may have taken the attitude that Paul started this church and he will always be the leader. These are the traditionalists.
1. They always live in the past and never
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Mary Lewis on May 9, 2001
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One commentator said this:
“Jesus is saying that a religion concerned only with not doing anything wrong in order that its practitioner may one day stand vindicated ignores the will of God.”
[Leon Morris, p 631,
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Baptist
Contributed by Dana Chau on Mar 18, 2002
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Someone has said, "Living life is building a bridge into eternity." The world’s religions require mankind to build his own bridge with his own resources. Christianity, on the other hand, provides the bridge. Not only that, the Builder of
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Contributed by Mary Lewis on Jul 11, 2002
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Children lined up in the cafeteria of a religious school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The teacher made a note: "Take only one, God is watching." At the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate
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Baptist
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 11, 2004
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Wayne Smith tells of an add he saw in a California newspaper one Thanksgiving that read: "Divorce: Only $25- come in and unload that turkey!" And while we may smile at that, isn’t it a sad commentary on our culture
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Christian Church
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Aug 25, 2005
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A man wanted to see Buckingham Palace. His guide took him to the gate. “Oh, I don’t mean here. I want inside.”
“I’m sorry sir,” replied the guide, “I don’t have
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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One-liners about Baldness
“Don’t regard it as losing hair. Think of it as gaining face.”
“The good man always comes out on top.”
“At least it’s neat.”
“God only made so many
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"It becomes the disciples of Christ to apply themselves to him for instruction in prayer. Lord, teach us to pray, is itself a good prayer, and a very needful one, for it is a hard thing to pray well and it is Jesus Christ only that can
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Baptist
Contributed by Steve Holmes on Jun 10, 2006
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Voltaire, the noted French writer, who died in 1778, said that in
one hundred years from his time Christianity would be swept from existence. Only fifty
years after Voltaire’s death, the Geneva
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Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Dec 31, 2007
C. S. Lewis - "The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that a fetus inside a woman’s body. If you want to get
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 7, 2008
If there is not such a thing as sin, then what do we call, among other things, domestic violence, abortion, murder, cheating, and child abuse?’ Again I remind us this morning we only look at our local paper to see the
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Church Of God
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 24, 2008
Some say fish have a six second memory. So, when one fish gets caught on a hook, only six seconds later, all his fish friends are ready to get hooked again. People are like that. They see
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Pentecostal