How true this song rings. Don't do this and don't do that. But we hope you come back next week. By the way we sure do love you.

I believe this is the song mentioned by DaveT in this week's recording...

 The only thing I can say to that?
AMEN!

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I shared this with Mike and Greg and thought it would be important to share it in the Vestibule. Our Tuesday night Bible study group talked about the concept of the Trinity again in our last meeting. In further study of the topic I found some interesting information.
Thank you to our Bible study group, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and in particular The Bible. Most of all thank you to the Lord for the ability to ask questions an study His Word.

Many Christian denominations teach that God is a Trinity. However, note what the Encyclop?dia Britannica states: Neither the word Trinity nor the explicit doctrine appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Hebrew Scriptures: ?Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord? (Deuteronomy 6:4).  The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies.?

The Council of Nicaea in 325 stated the crucial formula for that doctrine in its confession that the Son is ?of the same substance [homoousios] as the Father,? even though it said very little about the Holy Spirit. Over the next half century, Athanasius defended and refined the Nicene formula, and, by the end of the 4th century, under the leadership of Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus (the Cappadocian Fathers), the doctrine of the Trinity took substantially the form it has maintained ever since.


Is the God of the Bible described as being part of a Trinity. Note these Bible passages

18 And they know that Thou -- (Thy  name [is] Jehovah -- by Thyself,) [Art] the Most High over all the earth ??Psalm 83:18.  YLT


3 and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;?John 17:3.  YLT

20 and the mediator is not of one, and God is one --?Galatians 3:20. YLT[/size][/size]

Very interesting article. The main thing that jumped out at me was the fact that the more they claimed to "follow the law" the further they strayed from it. They (the Pharisees) were more concerned with tradition and "looking religious" than with what God actually told them. Pride and seeking power made them worse than the "infidels" they persecuted.

And then there's the Sadducee's. Talk about politics making strange bedfellows. They couldn't be further from the beliefs of the Pharisees if they tried but yet they conspired with them to kill the Messiah. From what I've seen and read about them, they at least tried to be faithful to God. They had firm beliefs (wrong as they were) and stuck to them. They didn't seem to be guided by pride and power like the Pharisees. But, they too strayed from the truth.

That brings me to the church today. How far have we strayed from the truth of the Gospel? How many denominations does it take to understand the whole truth that the bible teaches? The truth is, all of them have fallen short. The leaven has infected every single denomination, to one degree or another. Some are so far from the truth that they can't see past their own noses.

We need a revival in this world today but a revival that digs into what the bible actually says... about every subject. We need to stop taking the word of our teachers and preachers as gospel truth and look it up for ourselves (I say this as a Sunday school teacher myself). We need to be Bereans (ACT.17:11) and make sure what we're being taught lines up with what God has said.

I don't know if I've strayed from the main point Mike:D was trying to make but this is what kept going thru my mind as I read the post. We need to stop being "Catholics" and "Methodists" and yes, even "Baptists" and get back into the Word and find out for ourselves what it really says. Pastor Mike and the adult ministry team is working on putting together bible study groups that meet outside the church walls and hopefully bring in non-church members as well. This is a great opportunity to get into God's word and find out, for yourself, what God wants to tell you.

Good post Mike:D, keep em coming.