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THE NEW BELIEVER
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Thoughts and ministry set forth here about the Bible and Christian life. Questions are welcome to Bible Counsel for help. All letters are held confidential. One can use initals or a nickname if they wish. Readers should also see ministry on other pages of the Bible Counsel site. Send e-mail to R. DeWitt at sojourning@charter.net.
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For those undecided ones who wonder, wander, and worry….
A TRAP!
When a religious soul turns from the Bible or changes it to suit self, he/she forms a personal religion;
When one forms a personal religion he/she changes God's ways to man's ways;
When one changes God's ways he/she serves self and pleases Satan;
When one serves self and pleases Satan he/she falls into a trap;
Don't fall into Satan's trap ---hold to the Bible and learn God's ways.
TAKING A STAND
The faithful saints of God truly need to be conformed to the mind of God, looking and considering only the scriptural Church as shown in the Holy Bible. We cannot otherwise know much about honoring and pleasing God, though one might feel happy where they are with friends. Faithfulness is living for God as He shows.
There are those professing Christians who stand for a concept of Conservatism or Fundamentalism or Liberalism, or Orthodox sects; or ones claiming to be the Original church in the world. There are also movements of Humanism for independent gatherings with various religious-type practices, to further please self in the name of Christianity.
Christians should not be quarreling with other Christians about doctrine, but only sharing truth and urging all to turn from all the innovations and deletions of the Word wherever they are found; and also not starting some new gatherings to accomodate the flesh of men. We need to be sure we all are in accord with Holy Scripture in the world, and expressing the "one body in Christ" as enjoined, without adding to or taking from God's Word. There must be "no schism in the body" as God says, which dishonors Him; and be keeping God's standards, and showing "unity of the Faith" as God shows and intends before the Lord comes again.
Often we hear of voices saying the sects of men today are all we have, and there is no original form. Such reasoning is clearly from those who do not read their Bible (or are reading some new wordings in various new Versions they prefer), and thus fail to see what God began in the formation of the Church, as shown in Acts 2: 41-42 and the Epistles ---made clear in the KJV of the Word. They advocate modern practices, often saying they believe they should do what they feel God has shown them; and continue perverting the Holy Word of God to please the flesh of men.
Some of us have come to appreciate God's revival of Church Truth in 1827 AD ---known as "the brethren movement", coming out of the denominated sects from the Protestant Reformation of circa 1500 AD. We have found this fellowship in the world which has stood the test of God's Word now for over 180 years, and seek to share this way ---though admittingly most professing Christians refuse to even consider that possibility, we see. Sometimes they cry out, "throw dust in the air", and some "cast stones" (figurativly like Israel of olden times, when their religious ideas were questioned by the Prophets and Apostles (Acts 7:54-60; Acts 22:22-24).
There continues to be such a New Testament truth as stated here if one is a sincere seeker. If some saints do not value this, we can only commend them to God, and pray all will otherwise seek to be faithful to God in what they truly understand as the Christian testimony in the world. It will all be manifest and judged in Heaven as to the intent of the heart. Let us be sure our heart is in accord with the mind of God. - RLD: 10/15
