CHURCH OF ENGLAND TO BLEND CHRISTIANITY WITH PAGANISM

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CHURCH OF ENGLAND TO BLEND CHRISTIANITY WITH PAGANISM TO ATTRACT SPIRITUALISTSStonehenge Summer Solstice 2013

Here’s a new twist on church growth: creating a pagan atmosphere and branding campaign for New Age spiritualists in order to increase the number of bodies in the pews. The Church of England is actually training its ministers to create “a pagan church where Christianity [is] very much in the center” to attract spiritual believers.

That means changing the Anglican church doctrine to make it more inclusive for people of alternative beliefs. The Church of England admits that its motive is to retain congregation numbers who have embraced paganism. The Church Mission Society, which is training ministers to “break new ground” in order to get spiritual people into churches.  If you’ve come from a Seeker-Driven model, that might actually sound like a good thing. Get them in the doors and tell them about Jesus, right? But make no mistake; that is not what is happening here. The Jesus the Church of England is re-creating is not the Jesus of the Bible.

A little update on the Church of England: It recently gave up its fight against gay marriage, and also went as far as to bless civil partnerships.

The Church Mission Society’s Andrea Campenale, said: “Nowadays people, they want to feel something; they want to have some sense of experience. We live in reflective England where there’s much more of a focus on ourselves. I think that is something we can bring in dialogue with the Christian society.”

The Church Mission Society’s webpage advertising their pioneer training scheme states: “Wherever in the world the mission of Jesus goes on, the church needs pioneer mission leaders to break new ground.”

This news release was actually coordinated a couple of days ago to align with the Summer Solstice, with events lining up around the celebrations at Stonehenge which recently underwent a multimillion dollar transformation. A couple of days ago 20,000 spiritual seekers celebrated the summer solstice there. Pagans and druids gathered to celebrate at the historic monument.

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I don’t mess with your atheism don’t mess with my Jesus

I don’t mess with your atheism don’t mess with my Jesus.

I don’t mess with your atheism don’t mess with my Jesus

james1948:

Excellent – Exactly what I wanted to say.

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Tonight is proving to be a Jesus flipping tables kind of night. A short time ago a wonderful blogger pal of mine on A time to share posted on being offended. I really resonated with how she was feeling and tonight I am having some of those same feelings myself. I have found that in the blogosphere that in order to get people’s attention, the less words the better. So tonight here are my Jesus table flipping thoughts:

1. If you say you don’t have an agenda, then don’t have one

2. If you say we can’t talk about Jesus, then don’t talk about how He doesn’t exist

3. If you read a Christian post and don’t agree with it, all you have to say is “I don’t agree.” You don’t have to go on an hour-long tirade about how Christians are dumb farm animals who have no brains.

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Are We Expectant Pray-ers ??????

Originally posted on Levi's Daily Thoughts:

Everyone who reads my blog regularly knows how much I love C.H. Spurgeon. This year I am posting his Faith’s Checkbook everyday. If you read it everyday on December 31st you will have read them all. Today’s post by Spurgeon is very similar to the thought I have been thinking on for the past 24 hours.

I am going to use the text that Spurgeon used for this mornings devotion, but I could find many throughout the Bible in both Testaments equally well.

“But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen”. (Hosea 1:7)

The world that we live in is saturated with evil. Many are affected by the events of a few. Christians today are in a very fierce warfare with darkness much like Judah was…

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SIZING DOWN GOD

 

HEBREW HONEYCOMB

Author: W.A. Dillard
At various times and in sundry circumstances the measure of another person is taken.. Perhaps it is to recognize talents and abilities or to evaluate and praise the good deeds accomplished, or other reasons. We want to be as kind and liberal as possible in taking such measures. In quite serious situations such as facing surgery and needing a surgeon, we tend to become more critical in taking such measure, understandably so. Taking the measure of another may also be expressed as sizing one up. That has a positive ring to it, and if there are not too many “buts’ in the sizing, and the pure and simple truth is expressed, it is a good thing. Otherwise, such action might be better expressed as sizing one down. Generally speaking, how do men take the measure of the Son of God? Let’s think about this one!
The writer of the book of Hebrews tells us that Jesus is the express (pushed out) image of the invisible God. However, His own people did a disastrous job of taking His measure. They were looking for a handsome, charismatic king. Should they have known better? Certainly so! The great prophet Isaiah plainly declared, “…and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.” Isa., 53:2. And that He would be a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. 
The erroneous measure continues! Men attribute to God the thinking of a man. They think that surely God will bend the rules and make exceptions for them when he learns their circumstances (as if He does not know every detail). Such is a plain and simple “sizing down” of God which will not stand. They fail to consider Numbers 23:19, “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” In taking the measure of the Creator God, one will do well to listen to Isaiah 55:8-9: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” 
Digest this if you possibly can. Science tells us that the nearest star to earth is four light-years away. Since light travels at the speed of 186,000 miles per second, that makes it a very long distance. There is no telling the distance of so many others. This is God’s explanation to us of how far above us He is in every regard, especially in thoughts and ways. And some would make a glorified man of Him?!?? Please, please rethink your sizing of Him and make it up instead of down. A reading of Isaiah 6:1-9 will be most helpful in the process. Then, as the apostle Peter said, “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:” I Peter 3:15. Doubtless, the world will continue to size God downward, but to its own hurt. Let those who know Him learn enough to always size Him UP!!!

Something I Knew But Didn’t Really Know!!!!!!

james1948:

A valued testimonial.

Originally posted on Levi's Daily Thoughts:

In my recent work in New York City working in the Jews For Jesus NYC Campaign 2014 I really learned something that I knew intellectually, but not practically. If you have read my post over the past 3 weeks you know that I became the “coffee meister”, and as the NYC branch director called me in a thank you card “the coffee master extraordinaire”.

The campaign had decided to pass out iced coffee that New Yorkers love so much in the summer. By initially only helping, I became the sole maker of 900 gallons of the cold brewed drink. It was such a time consuming task that I didn’t take part in the daily contact with people on the streets for 4 days of my 18 because I absolutely didn’t have the time. I was more or less confined to the brew kitchen by myself because I was spending 17…

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Happy Independence Day !!!!!!

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Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.”-George Washington’s Farewell Address to Nation

“Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I’m not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.”
– John Wayne

“We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ‘except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.’ I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel.”
– Benjamin Franklin (From the debates at the Constitutional Convention, June of 1787)

“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings…

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Practice Humility

 

1 Peter 5:5, 6

“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,” 1 Peter 5:6.

 

Andrew Murray wrote, “The highest lesson a believer has to learn is humility.” Oh, how we fail!

Society frowns on humility and promotes arrogance and selfishness. Advertisers bait us with ads that tantalize our appetite for self-gratification. They fool us into believing that we are the most important person in our lives. That is a lie, which kills relationships. We do not resist when we have the chance to promote ourselves, gloat and bask in the spotlight. We do not humbly give praise to God.

Many men of God are guilty of humble phobia. They are afraid of not being recognized in the––you scratch my back and I will scratch your back society. Because of this fear, they lift themselves up to the point of taking God’s place. They love to be seen with others in this fraternity instead of mingling with the lowly. However, as the disciples learned, one’s place in Heaven has been chosen by God, not by men.

Indeed, humility is not a bad characteristic to practice. Jesus, King of Glory, was not afraid to humble Himself. Jesus ate with sinners. He talked with them. He cared for them. He loved them more than He loved life. He left the splendor and beauty of Heaven and was born in a lowly dirt-floored stable. He did it with complete and loving humility.

 

 

REFLECTION

We can learn humility from the perfect example, Jesus Christ.

 

Beverly Barnett