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11/24/09 4:31 PM Neil  | Tucson    • Posted 1 minute ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Arizona Church Ordered to Stop Feeding Homeless 13 comments John, that sounds proper to me. I assume by "community" you mean believers in the church. The tragic thing about MLK is, his most stirring rhetoric misuses Scripture, however sound his goal of political equality may have been. It might've been better if he avoided Scripture altogether, which at least would've been more consistent with his skepticism about the inspiration of Scripture. Lest I get blamed for criticizing MLK, the South did incalculable damage not only to blacks, but also in falsely linking Biblical Christianity with racial segregation. Ever since, limited-gov't federalism & Constitutionalism, which Southerners used as a "stalking horse" for their social ideal of blacks as a pariah caste, has been "guilty by assocation." 11/24/09 4:30 PM John Paul's wife    • Posted 2 minutes ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Arizona Church Ordered to Stop Feeding Homeless 13 comments Thank God someone is helping the poor. Anyone of us could be in that position at any time. Here in California I am seeing homeless everywhere as so many are losing jobs--and there is not enough food or shelters in the formal ministries--and their jobs have been largely sent overseas. We are so brainwashed that it is the job of the government to do God's work that we think it is moral to not help our neighbor??? I can just imagine the Pharisees giving the Good Samaritan an infraction for helping the sick man on the side of the road. 11/24/09 3:59 PM Mike  | New York    • Posted 33 minutes ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Arizona Church Ordered to Stop Feeding Homeless 13 comments San Jose John wrote: Thanks, Neil. Our church is careful only to announce opportunities to serve physical needs of our community without getting directly involved so that our individual members can "remember the poor" as they see fit without having the church itself get bogged-down trying to "wait tables" instead of devoting all available energies to preaching the Gospel and meeting SPIRITUAL needs, which is the church's true charter (as Jim Lincoln pointed out), and which I've tried to explain to the gentleman from Dayton. Not that I disagree with who should meet needs, SJ John, but your post does bring up a curiousity. It sounds like you think there is a church that exists separately from the members who comprise it. If this is so, where is this church when all the individual members are in their homes? 11/24/09 3:49 PM San Jose John  | San Jose, CA    • Posted 43 minutes ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Arizona Church Ordered to Stop Feeding Homeless 13 comments Neil wrote: SJ John, to clarify a bit more, I think the widow instruction in 1 Tim. 5 is significant. If not even every widow is entitled to assistance by the church (& Scripture *repeatedly* requires charity to widows), then a fortiori, neither are other hardship cases. Those are matters of discretion for individual believers, not elders. I'm sure many a pastor should be relieved to hear this. They get phone calls all the time from people begging for church money. Thanks, Neil. Our church is careful only to urge and announce opportunities to serve physical needs of our community without getting directly involved so that our individual members can "remember the poor" as they see fit without having the church itself get bogged-down trying to "wait tables" instead of devoting all available energies to preaching the Gospel and meeting SPIRITUAL needs, which is the church's true charter (as Jim Lincoln pointed out), and which I've tried to explain to the gentleman from Dayton. The overall lot of African Americans today might be a lot better if Martin Luther King Jr. hadn't forsaken the Gospel in favor of temporal social justice schemes. Had he been more obedient to God I'm sure things would be MUCH better for blacks today. 11/24/09 2:46 PM Neil  | Tucson    • Posted 2 hours ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Sarah Palin visits the Graham family, seeks guidance 8 comments So Evangelical Free, GARBC, & CBA churches are "wrong" by Jim's standards. What a shame; they were all Dispy. And I only rarely listen to broadcasts; writing is easier to analyze ("prove all things"). 11/24/09 2:40 PM Jim Lincoln  | Nebraska    • Posted 2 hours ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Arizona Church Ordered to Stop Feeding Homeless 13 comments One has to remember since the UMC has forsaken Christianity it does have to find something to do and social work is one of those things. There is nothing wrong with charity, if carried out for the wrong reasons, one of those wrong reasons is to make oneself feel good and not to honor God. Hypocritical Worship Rebuked Matthew 6 1 "Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. 2 "When therefore you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honored by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. 3 "But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing 4 that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you.---NASB 11/24/09 2:29 PM Jim Lincoln  | Nebraska    • Posted 2 hours ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Pope John Paul II 'whipped himself in remorse for... 9 comments Cliff, I'm glad you pointed out the sad pagan practices of the Irish Catholic Church they should be held up to all! Oh, on whipping: Leviticus 19 28 'You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead, nor make any (1)tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.---NASB Geneva Bible Notes wrote: (l) By whipping your bodies or burning marks in them The Pope and the Papacy is a disgusting heresy! 11/24/09 2:22 PM rhymnrzn2zion  | D-TON OH    • Posted 2 hours ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Arizona Church Ordered to Stop Feeding Homeless 13 comments San Jose John, are you a clergyman funded by the tithe of wealthy people? My brother (for whatever amount of grace he has for us to thank God for), is not born-again and baptized, nor hangs out in any place where people receive and mature in the Holy Ghost, where they communicate with everybody that God brings to them. My brother has worked very much to provide for his own (would kill himself before robbing widows), but now has no job, and goes to local college; he tends to his four children while his wife works many hours for a little. They receive food stamps, and family aid, and yet, face forklosure, which has been narrowly missed for while now. Tell me again, what is that excellent thing that you do unto the brethren, that you would have done to yourself if that was YOU? (we know you do not make so many bad decisions in life, but we are no man's judge) Is it to cleave to this status quo, and let however many fall off, fall off, or would you feel like me, that it is not fit to receive tithes of the wealthy by reason of their excess, which is clearly shipwrecking society? Who comes to the Church with a request, and does not first have an errand to the Lord? As for ME, I will not touch a thing, not willing to meddle with more crucial accommodations (assuming they are). 11/24/09 2:21 PM Jim Lincoln  | Nebraska    • Posted 2 hours ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Heavy fines, bans levied on Uzbek Baptists 1 comment Considering the country they are in, a Communist, Muslim country, I suppose it really has to be looked up as The Jizyah Tax: Equality And Dignity Under Islamic Law?. Christians in this country, and other former Islamic Soviet Republics suffer from a double-whammy when it comes to persecution. Matthew 5 10 "Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 "Blessed are you when men cast insults at you, and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, on account of Me.---NASB 11/24/09 2:09 PM Jim Lincoln  | Nebraska    • Posted 2 hours ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Sarah Palin visits the Graham family, seeks guidance 8 comments Neil, you must be hanging around the wrong churches or listening to wrong broadcasts! Any Pastor who is worth his salt, (and for Mike of NY) Mark 9 50 "Salt is good; but if the salt becomes unsalty, with what will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."---NASB "Only Scripture," "Only Christ," "Only Grace," "Only Faith," and "To God Alone Be Glory". Just an excellent test for any church. One thing about Independent Baptists, and IHCC is one such church, many times they are made up of people who came from other churches, so if they pulled up their roots before, they really don't hesitate to do it again, even for bad reasons. For example if a pastor doesn't support Psychology or King James Onlyism. 11/24/09 1:17 PM Neil  | Tucson    • Posted 3 hours ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Arizona Church Ordered to Stop Feeding Homeless 13 comments SJ John, to clarify a bit more, I think the widow instruction in 1 Tim. 5 is significant. If not even every widow is entitled to assistance by the church (& Scripture *repeatedly* requires charity to widows), then a fortiori, neither are other hardship cases. Those are matters of discretion for individual believers, not elders. I'm sure many a pastor should be relieved to hear this. They get phone calls all the time from people begging for church money. 11/24/09 1:07 PM San Jose John  | San Jose, CA    • Posted 3 hours ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Arizona Church Ordered to Stop Feeding Homeless 13 comments rhymnrzn2zion wrote: What about the poor brethren, who are already converted, San Jose John? I think Neil already answered this (at least partially--in terms of "widows") in his post. If YOU or anyone you know is physically poor, wheather a believer or not, and needs help there are MANY placed besides the church to go to to get physical help--which are often much better equipped to supply it, since it is their main purpose to do so (churches main purpose is to supply spiritual needs, which many charities are not fitted to provide). But if you insist on going to churches first for physical needs, I would suggest contacting the deaconal department of that church. Our church has one in which we the members "help the poor" with physical needs, but it is almost always in conjunction with an organization specifically set up to do so, which (by God's grace) frees us up as a church to provide the far more important SPIRITUAL needs of the individual. 11/24/09 12:49 PM Sherlock    • Posted 4 hours ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: The Vatican joins the search for alien life 96 comments GG & Company & Bert........ Now gentlemen lets go up the hill and look under those rocks shall we? Now lets examine what we find! Here we have a statement from the Vatican from the previous post down below as follows .... 11.Support sanctions honoring Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -- the New Age Humanist Priest.. Then when we follow a google search for this person we find ................................that the New York Times said that... . He made a speech about evolution, origins and the destiny of Man. The New York Times dated March 19, 1937 presented Teilhard as the Jesuit who held that the man descended from monkeys. Then he received an award......Some days later, he was to be granted Doctor honoris causa of the Catholic University of Boston. Read all about it here: http://kheper.net/topics/Teilhard/Teilhard_biography.html Now the only question that remains . . Are “they “planning on bringing back a “BAND” and singing “Hey, Hey we're the Monkeys????" to be continued as always......... Sadly there remains many more rocks to look under! 11/24/09 12:40 PM June    • Posted 4 hours ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Pope John Paul II 'whipped himself in remorse for... 9 comments Patrick said . . . "The RCC is a shame and a disgrace in that its leaders, like this sad and lost soul, lead its people away from God rather than to Him. Both my wife and I are saved by a gracious Lord from this truly awful system. Praise His name forever. Amen." ******** AMEN Patrick! Though we must never forget . . they are "blind leaders of the blind" (Matt. 15:14) Both my husband and I were as well delivered by God's marvellous grace from serving our idols that we might serve the living and true God! (1 Thess. 1:9) And Amen to your comment as well Cliff Leckey! I thank God every day for the "childlike" faith (Matt. 18:3) His Spirit has wrought in me to rest in the finished work of Jesus Christ, my Saviour and my God, and pray for those at Sermon Audio whom we know are yet blinded by the false gospel of Rome that they too might have the light of the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus Christ shined into their hearts! (II Cor. 4:6) There but by the grace of God go I . . we! (1 Cor. 15:10) "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it the power of God unto salvation to all who believeth, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." (Rom. 1:16) 11/24/09 12:35 PM Dayton  | OH    • Posted 4 hours ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Arizona Church Ordered to Stop Feeding Homeless 13 comments Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmenm nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompence thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. Luke 14:12-14 Who has forgotten that all Belivers in Christ Jesus are The CHURCH Ephesians 5:25-32 11/24/09 12:14 PM Opened Eyes    • Posted 4 hours ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Pope John Paul II 'whipped himself in remorse for... 9 comments [ [AUTHOR]Tony Lopez-Cisneros[/AUTHOR]True Authorized Holy Bible Believing Brethren: ] John Harmar, the Calvinist who translated Calvin's sermons on the Ten commandments and several of Beza's sermons into English Lawrence Chaderton an outspoken anti-Arminian preacher Thomas Holland whose Calvinism is described as "thorough" George Abbot the Calvinist who encouraged James to request the States General to dismiss Vorstius because of his Arminianism? Miles Smith, who was a member of the third translation company, one of the revisors of the whole, the final editor with Bishop Bilson, and the author of The Translators To The Readers, who was known as a severe Calvinist? Or John Reynolds and Samuel Ward also Calvinists So I thought Tony said such 'calvinists' were heretics BUT surely THEY are TRUE Authorised Holy Bible Beleiving Brethren Heretics translating Tony's Bible...Hmmmm How does he explain such BTW Tony...none can 'see' any charachter assassination but facts...prove other wise please, you're the only one who labels all and sundry as 'jeuitics' and 'heretics'. Note Tony the jesuits make war against *The Reformation* Here 11/24/09 11:41 AM rhymnrzn2zion  | D-TON OH    • Posted 5 hours ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Arizona Church Ordered to Stop Feeding Homeless 13 comments What about the poor brethren, who are already converted, San Jose John? Can we not make a distinction between the Lord's supper, and dealing out of the tillage of the poor? I speak in the mind that, the poor brethren are equals in the Church, and are not to be dismissed to go sit under a footstool. Yet, I get no engagement of fellowship, nor an ear to hear my voice, as to communicate with my needs (which is more of brotherhood) in such environs: even less to attend the congregation and hear a good lengthy reading of the Scriptures. Now, if anyone wants to resort to despiteful use, in order to support the iniquity of their own heart, then what is lacking of the word of God being put into their hearing that they are so emboldened? I am very confident that there is nothing lacking within the Scriptures, or within even a very short conversation with a man of God. 11/24/09 11:24 AM San Jose John  | San Jose, CA    • Posted 5 hours ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Arizona Church Ordered to Stop Feeding Homeless 13 comments For churches, helping "the poor" is tricky. You want to help them (James 2:15-16) but you don't want them to go away thinking that they have God's favor just because one of God's churches showed them kindness (by feeding their body only and neglecting the need for salvation/spiritual food--opposite of James 2:15-16--which would be exceedingly deceitful on the part of the church providing "help". Somehow the Gospel MUST be incorporated into EVERY attempt made by any true church or Christian organization when it helps the poor...which is a task that is and has been much better handled by Christion missions, which are not churches but outreach efforts supported by churches. 11/24/09 11:06 AM rhymnrzn2zion  | D-TON OH    • Posted 5 hours ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Arizona Church Ordered to Stop Feeding Homeless 13 comments Far be it to let someone starve to death, or to suffer children to be malnourished, or to let any go hungry while they go to the strenuous work of pulling themselves up by the bootstraps: but no, it is not considered to be all that the righteous may do, neither the sole deed that one may obtain forgiveness of sins (though manifest love is able to cover a multitude of sins). Of course, according to the height of hypocrisy, one like myself might rather not touch anything that be their's at all, if God so willed. After all, Christians are supposed to NOT have ought of anything, as if it is their own: yet among a thousand churches, I would have to commit an act of robbery in order to do them service! 11/24/09 10:51 AM Neil  | Tucson    • Posted 6 hours ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Arizona Church Ordered to Stop Feeding Homeless 13 comments The more that organized churches go beyond what Scripture prescribes, the more they should expect such conflicts with civil authorities. Where is it written that churches should give handouts to anybody, except select widows who are members of the congregation (1 Tim 5:5-10)?

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