Vicki, if you stay home, don't attend Bedside Baptist, listening to Pastor
Whitesheet preaching on the comforter.  I am attending a small Baptist
church, now, somewhat like those in the Baptist Bible Fellowship.  I don't
agree with all of its doctrine, but I can live with it.  I get to minister,
here and there a little, playing a sax special, sometimes bringing a
message and helping out, financially.

earlier, Vicki and The Rors, wrote:
>Have recently been thinking that I have some what of a jaded attitude.  Was
>just thinking last night of the years I have loved going to church and felt
>I was there for the right reason for the most part.  Oh there were those
>times, that all of us have, of course.  but now I find it's difficult to
>attend.  I've been attending a church for the last almost year and a half on
>a regular basis, and am not managing to fit in anywhere.  Though I love the
>sermon, and the music, and worship of the Lord, I seem to be just warming a
>bench.  I can do that much easier at home and have a cumffy chair in
>addition.    Experiences with churches in the last couple of years have
>caused me to search my heart to see if there is any unforgiveness for church
>leadership who really inflicted pain on me.    Having re-visited those
>experiences, asking the Lord to show me any unforgiveness, I feel that area
>is settled as far as I can settle it.  But in a properly functioning church,
>should there not be a place of service for every member of the body of
>Christ?    And what about the verses in Hebrews 10:24-25.  New Living puts
>it this way.
>
>Think of ways to encourage one another to outbursts of love and good deeds.
>
>And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but
>encourage and warn each other, especially now that the day of his coming
>back again is drawing near.
>
>I like that outburst of good deeds.
>
>We won't have that perfect church until heaven, but the church today is
>severely hampered, and misses out because members of the body aren't in
>their places erving, sharing their God-given gifts, ministering and being
>ministered to..  I'm not just talking about the up front people that we
>might see every Sunday like the pastor or the worship teams.  But so that I
>don't get on a soap box, wonder what others of you think?
>
>I'm sure glad that we can assemble here on the net.  The physical assembly
>is still, however, important.
>
>
>
>Vicki

John

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