[Linux4christians] Being in the "Bride of Christ"

[Fred A. Miller]

On 12/10/2009 12:38 AM, Dave Powell wrote:
> Well G'day over there,
> I guess the Internet is available for all sorts of comments to be
> disseminated. It has been an education watching the conversations of
> late. Lots of short almost meaningless comments that I guess somebody
> knows the heart of. They are a bit like "in house" comments, you need
> to be there. 
>
> There are a number of questions that I was going to make a comment on
> but decided to just watch but the Bride of Christ is an important subject.
>
> I notice that some get all excited and make clear comments about some
> Christians not being part of the Bride of Christ. Now that is a
> puzzle. I would think that if you are not part of the Bride of Christ
> you are not a Christian - maybe a pretender but not a Christian. Could
> someone tell me what they think the Biblical criteria is for being in
> the Bride of Christ.
>
> Here is something to get excited about - A group of Kenyans have left
> a Church in Kenya because of the liberal (or as they said
> "compromising with sin) theology developing, as seems to be the case
> in your and my country also. They have contacted us through our WWW
> and want to join with us and be know as the Bible Methodist Church of
> Africa. about eight Churches so far I think. Would any of you put this
> on your urgent prayer list as we in Aus are just a small single church
> and to help them get going is going to be a challenge. We would
> appreciate your prayer support.
>

Done! I'm not surprised to hear this story from Kenya. First, it's hard
enough to even be a Christian there because of Islam.

Fred

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SOCIALISM is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance 
and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal 
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