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A pastor or teacher may be of help in pointing you in the right path but, you are ultimately responsible for what you believe. You cannot say, well that is what my church believes, that is what my preacher told me or that is the belief of my denomination and expect to be excused for not believing God's Word. It is your responsibility to be in the word, to be in prayer, to heed the voice of the Spirit, yes, your teacher and preacher will be accountable to God for what he teaches and preaches, but you will be held accountable for what you believe! Your trust cannot be in a preacher or a denomination, it must be in the word of God, for that is the only way you will be an overcomer and understand the truth that is in God's Word.

You may choose not to love, you may choose not to hate, that only means you are INDIFFERENT and UNCARING! Be DIFFERENT, not by HATING, but by LOVING and CARING!

As well intentioned and good as it may be, our DOING for the Lord maybe the greatest obstacle to KNOWING Him as Lord. If in WORKING for the LORD we fail to get to KNOW the Lord of the work...then we have chosen to do the GOOD of DOING for the Lord over the BETTER of KNOWING the Lord and becoming one with Him! Once we KNOW the Lord we will cease working FOR Him and work WITH him allowing Him to DO His WORK through us by our acts of love.

As believers we need to be aware of personal ambition, control seeking, and finding our identity amongst certain groups or in the scripture, for seeking our identity by those things all flow from the flesh and will cause division and strife. By seeking our identity among groups or in scripture we fall into the trap of denominational segregation. This is more of a betrayal of the Kingdom to the world rather than a advancing of the Kingdom. As believers we need to realize that the “buildings of worship” is not the “Church” it is only the buildings where, (though segregated) parts of His body meet. “God no longer dwells in buildings made by man”! Why do we set up buildings where oratory preachers share with the listeners who are pew-warmers who are denominational followers. Jesus is learned through LIFE, His LIFE is in us and by our daily living we are to impart His life to the people we meet daily during our daily living. We are called to make DISCIPLES not LISTENERS! We are called to b...

As Believers we need to stop trying to find our identity in scripture.  One of the reasons why there are so many different denominations is that certain groups found their identity in scripture and applied it to their particular group thus, the denomination and segregation was invoked.  As Believers we need to find our identity in the LIVING WORD and Him alone. Finding our identity in scripture leads to a head knowledge of Jesus and Grace and we present the gospel the way religion sees it. Finding our identity in the LIVING WORD leads to heart knowledge of Jesus and Grace which allows us to present His gospel of LOVE.  Jesus is not the “theology” of God, Jesus is the “LIFE” of God. God is LOVE therefore, LOVE is the gospel that is to be shared and demonstrated on a daily basis with people we come in contact with.

The articulation of gratitude and thanksgiving from your mouth are the expressions of a thankful heart and soul and has great beneficiary effects, it affects the lifeblood as it courses through your arteries providing the substance that is needed for a healthy human heart, a healthy mind, and a healthy soul. Be THANKFUL and watch your attitude change for the better!

For most of the O.T. era, corporate worship in a building was limited to where there was a tabernacle/temple, and was practiced only by those who lived near enough to go to the building. By the last 200 years BC, the custom had been adopted to where local synagogue worship was a regular practice. But, here is the clincher...This came about without any mandate from God, so far as recorded in scripture! Do you not think that if the Lord God expressed what is deemed to be such an important feature as it is today, that the scriptures would be silent about it? Nevertheless, by the advent of Christendom corporate worship, in buildings set aside for that purpose, was, for the first time, firmly established among the Jews. What is clear though, is the New Testament makes no reference to commending or for the continuance of this pattern in Christian form. The N.T. does not promote places for worship. The early leaders spoke against the idea of having special buildings you might called the...