STAY IN THE G.C. CHURCH TO HELP SOULS?
I was told by one who rejected the truth, that I should stay in the General Conference to cry and sigh for them, which is really saying, to plead with them to accept the truth and live the truth one most sit down in the church services. That is not practical:
1. Jesus said to the Pharisees who taught they were in need of nothing (just like Laodicea, see Rev.3:17): "They that are whole need not a physician but they that are sick."
2. If going to church services in a GC church is a practical way to reach souls, then we all should go to Catholic church; who has been in Apostacy long time, to reach its members.
3. Staying in a church to reach souls is like going to a party of revelers, who don't care and where you are not a contributor to the running of the program. When Christ went to the Synogogue he was given the floor to teach. Today you go to a church or continue going to a church with a stand out urgent message as ours, the word goes around from the leadership to the members not to listen to you. The lukewarm members not knowing how to be lead of the Spirit obey the leaders.
4. You do not need to sit down through a 3 hour church programme listening to errors etc. for an opportunity to place the truth in the midst of Laodicea. There are wide range of ways of getting the truth to the sincere ones there. There is house to house missionary work, radio and television broadcasting, internet media like you tube and Facebook and web sites, and general missionary work wherever the gospel worker maybe.
5. The apostolic churches were not dependent on the Synogogues as their place of worship. It would be impractical when the disciples won souls on the day of pentecost that they carried them back to the local Synogogue to become members there. This would be unwise since the leadership there were in Apostacy from the truth and it would endanger the salvation of those young in the faith.
6. The mission to spread the gospel is not to Laodicea alone but to all the world, so that the methods used to save the rest of the world is good enough to save Laodiceans also. That is to say, in the same way we are not restricted to save the non- Adventist by sitting in their church services ... we are not restricted to sitting in Adventist churches to save them.
7. Those who generally hold the above reason why you should stay in GC church, generally only care about maintaining the church unity and cares not of its holiness before God, or saving souls by the truth. In fact as far as they are concern salvation has nothing to do with doctrine (The Truth).
8. We need to generally keep Sabbath among believers of the truth for we are sanctified as messages of truth is shared between ourselves and other saints. Remember where two or three are gathered in His name (name -Yahshuah or Jesus - Yahweh Saviour for he shall save his people from their sins), He is in the midst to bless. This implies the doctrine of sinfreeness must be held that Jesus would be in the midst to bless. One must be holy to keep the Sabbath holy.
Let's be wise and practica,l and biblical most of all.
P.S. The church was made for man and not man for the church. So when a church stop serving man's need to educate him in the truth it is time to simply go to a functioning church if the former can not be readily remedied.
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