Fran that was a great post!

Can't you put those Eskimos on an Alaska Airlines flight to... the North Slope?

It's already happening, and its why whole churches have left the faith. Damascus Road Community Church is one, in Maryland. Here is the link to a discussion about it:

http://www.revivalsermons.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=522

I attend 3 churches near where I live and one of them is in Damascus. It is NOT DRCC though. I believe it might be the one the sabbath keepers formed (or kept) when DRCC split off and went elsewhere, but I'm not sure about all the history.

One thing I am sure about: I don't like contemporary music in worship service. I don't mind it on the car radio or in the home, but when I go to worship I want traditional music. There's another church I go to that does the traditional music (hymns & choir) but they are very "high church" and their services are very long which is hard on my back to sit through. I tried yet another church nearby, a smaller one, and the pastor is too political; it made me very uncomfortable. Ironically, the church I get "fed" at the most is this one very casual church (people come in jeans, etc.) that meets later and I can usually catch the sermon & potluck if I go after regular church. They also do contemporary music but the preaching there is so deep and Biblical and strong it makes up for it.

Since there are things I like and don't like about the 3 I usually go to, I can't settle on just one church!

I can say I like to hear only flutes in church and still not understand the real issues in the end-time struggle for souls.

Dennis if that was directed at me you are barking up the wrong tree. I refrain from making definitive statements about understanding "the real issues" because I am not God and I don't pretend to be God. I understand as much as He has given me to understand and beyond that I pray for more understanding if He sees fit. Sharing my musical preferences was not a bid of any sort. It was simply sharing my musical preferences. I do not believe that liking one type of music rather than another is indicative of anything but a personal preference.

Yeah and its such a shame that it had nothing to do with my initial point about Adventist Churches preaching Sunday from the pulpit. But I see your point. It just seems you are always hedging up my way when I post, either skirting the issue as you did in your last post, or coming back in violent backlash against me, then claiming it is me attacking you. Do yourself a favor, STOP!!

Dude, do *yourself* a favour and stop slapping everyone who gets within reach! Nico posted something relevant and interesting, and you just couldn't resist a slap. It seems as though your version of spiritual correctness *measures* your righteousness by how many enemies you have. How did people react to Jesus? How read you?

I don't know what your problem is this morning, Dennis, but you can stop taking it out on me. This is an open forum. I post like others post -- on whatever thread interests me, putting in my two cents. I respond to the ideas that are offered in others' posts or whatever is sparked in my mind from reading the posts, and I don't play favorites. If something you post sparks a thought in me, I'm going to respond. Not because it's you, but because there is a post there that said something that sparked a response. You are no different in that respect than anyone else here.

Yes, sometimes I stray off topic. So does everyone else at times. But you and your persecution complex can take a hike because I am not going to carefully monitor whether I happen to be posting in a thread you have posted to, or whether my post follows yours or not. I'm going to continue doing what I do, which is enjoy the forum the way I have always done so. If I am out of line, I trust a moderator to step in and sort me out. That's what they are there for. Now kindly take your bad mood and your worse attitude and go find someone else to tell off this morning. Better yet, take your persecution complex to a competent psychiatrist and get the help you seem to need.

As for "violent backlash" I have no idea what your major maladjustment is, but I have every right to share my views and/or explain myself if you or anyone else throws a direct challenge in my face as you just did here. I have the right to respond. You, on the other hand, do not have the right to go around picking fights. Personally, the way I see it, if I acted like you did, I would not be surprised if I got asked to leave the forum. Others have been asked to leave for far less nastiness than you have perpetrated in your short time here.

HUH??
I noticed the latest activity on this thread....
awww..isn't that just toooooo badd??

What do you expect?? I am not surprised...I have posted it on the internet for years...

CRIME AND CLERGY CONNECTION=TRICKLE DOWN IMMORALITY

Churches are religious social clubs attended by Jer 17:9 and Rom 8:7 churchians who are hooked on religious dope and listen to NFDMTTS.

Nico..glad you found a church where someone gives a competent sermon...took me years to find one too.


Here is a bummer though....
On April 24th I posted about calling in on a Christian Radio Talk station...
well since the SS lesson was confrontation.. (Mark 7)..
I mentioned that yesterday in the class...(not mine,,,it was at another church) and instead of others joining the theme...I got flak ...
I have encountered this before...because I know there are churchian Sons of SATAN and Daughters of the Devil in the SDA church just like other churches....
and I countered the remarks, from the bible...yet I see the results of incompetent preaching and the lack of training in altruistic endeavors.

A great deception in the church is where one is fooled into thinking they have a relationship with Jesus.




Bottom line....to what is going on....

Reminds me of Proverbs where wisdom laughs at the foolishness.