Wow, I'm sorry, but I really don't see how these people are ever going to be at peace. While I believe that we need to be encouraging our fellow believers to be Christ-like, we also have to realize that we are all fallible. Amen? I see errancy all around me and sometimes I get down right upset. But I continually ask God to help me and show me where He wants me. I have to work in an environment that surrounds me with dirty, foul mouthed sinners but the Lord has provided. As far as corporate worship goes, I understand the arguments, but I still think that in a lot of cases, the believer is going to just have to deal with the fact that there is errancy and people in the pews who aren’t Christ centered. I have issues with my church, but I also see it as my mission field. How are we going to allow the Lord to work in the body if everyone who finds faults runs away? I try to put my trust in the Lord and pray that He will bring deliverance to my brethren at my church. That he will lead them to true worship and prayer and that we will be blessed. I simply don’t see how one can be a Christian and not be continually led back to church that shares the same basic doctrinal beliefs plus or minus a couple of differences.

Don’t get me wrong though. I understand the struggle. I have the same struggle. I often want to alienate myself and my family away from the world. I often think of how much easier it would be out in the country by ourselves. But then I have to be honest with myself and realize that the grass isn’t always greener. I believe the Lord puts strong Christians exactly where they don’t want to be. Smack dab in the middle of the war!<img src="/forum/images/graemlins/takethat.gif" alt="" /> Hey no one told you it was going to be easy following Christ did they? If they did, they lied. I have to pick up my cross daily and fight the good fight. Even when I’m in my church… come the think of it, especially when I’m in my church. Shoot, sometimes I find myself walking out the doors absolutely upset. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/Banghead.gif" alt="" /> I don’t understand how Christians can be so self centered, I don’t understand why Christians parents allow their teen daughters to ware skin tight clothing that’s exploiting their sexuality in worship service. I can’t understand why we have classes that talks about Gnostic Gospels and the Koran. I don’t understand why I have to tip toe around reformed five point theology in a Presbyterian church. I don’t understand why out of a congregation of over a thousand why we only ever get a handful of people in adult education classes. Buttttttttt……. I deal with it. Amen? I have brethren there that I love dearly. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/hugs.gif" alt="" /> The Lord wants me their and so I stay and I wage war. Sometimes the enemy gets the best of me but I have my share of victories as well. It’s not easy, but it’s what we’re called to do.

Y.B.I.C,

Dave. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/coffee2.gif" alt="" />

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. - Galatians 2:16