tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post7421187373589642527..comments2023-10-08T12:11:52.993+13:00Comments on New Zealand Conservative: Church bells to ring out for climate changeLucia Mariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10485990994973953860noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-80828675172054769672009-12-02T11:49:49.879+13:002009-12-02T11:49:49.879+13:00KG: have you read "Mere Christianity" by...KG: have you read "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis? If not I highly recommend it. Inside he says that the only consideration for what Church to choose (for he exhorts that you must choose one) is which one is true and teaches the truth, not which one is most comfortable or in which one your political sensibilities are most catered to or anything else. The political opinion of a Bishop is of no consequence in this matter, although they can be a pain. Christ didn't say the road to heaven was thin and rocky for no reason!nyokodohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08125412365252547421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-68768379573882126682009-12-01T17:04:04.656+13:002009-12-01T17:04:04.656+13:00KG,
It wouldn't help, would it?
When I came ...KG,<br /><br />It wouldn't help, would it?<br /><br />When I came back to the Faith 3 years ago, it wasn't because of the the church locally was doing. It was because I came to the conclusion that if the Church wasn't true, nothing was.<br /><br />Along the way, I have come across some real horrors, that in the first year of my return, I think I must have been supernaturally protected from.<br /><br />It helps a lot knowing that the local bishop has authority only so much as he is in communion with the Pope. <br /><br />There is a place for church leaders in politics - if politics strays into their domain. What's happening in the US over abortion is such an example.Lucia Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10485990994973953860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-88998021865462624812009-12-01T16:39:36.366+13:002009-12-01T16:39:36.366+13:00Right now I'm struggling with the idea of beco...Right now I'm struggling with the idea of becoming a member of any Church--and stuff like this doesn't help, Lucyna.<br />Church leaders should stay right out of politics imho.KGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01940428991630766942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-70154328004325158192009-12-01T12:47:01.680+13:002009-12-01T12:47:01.680+13:00Mathew 24:4-14
4 And Jesus answered and said unt...Mathew 24:4-14<br /><br /><i> 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.<br /><br /> 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.<br /><br /> 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.<br /><br /> 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.<br /><br /> 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.<br /><br /> 9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.<br /><br /> 10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.<br /><br /> 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.<br /><br /> 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.<br /><br /> 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.<br /><br /> 14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.</i>Andreihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04536593172412406428noreply@blogger.com