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Two-Minute Features | 07 January 2018

Christians Can Follow God On Their Own? Part 1 (TMF:795)

Friday, January 05, 2018
Peace to Live By: Christians Can Follow God On Their Own? Part 1 (TMF:795) - Daniel Litton
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       Contention five: God doesn’t dwell in places built by humans. Therefore, I don’t need to go church. I can just have a relationship with God on my own. It’s true; a person can have a relationship with God without being actively involved in a local church. The issue is that God wants people to involved with fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Just reading the New Testament through, it becomes obvious, rather quickly, that fellowship with other believers is pretty important to a balanced Christian life, being pleasing to God and helping others. You have to look at it as it’s not so much what you will get from others, but rather it’s what you can contribute to better others. Remember what President John F. Kennedy said in his inaugural address. He said, “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” Well, in the same way ask not what your church can do for you, but what you can do for your church.

Christians Just as Bad as the Rest of Us? Part 4 (TMF:794)

Thursday, January 04, 2018
Peace to Live By: Christians Just as Bad as the Rest of Us? Part 4 (TMF:794) - Daniel Litton
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       So, here, Paul instructs us not to associate or eat with any person who says he or she is a Christian, and yet, is actively committing a ‘big’ sin in his or her life. This is not talking about people who have done these sins in the past before becoming a Christian, or during a time of drifting away from Christ, but who is currently, actively participating in one or more of these sins and yet sees nothing wrong with it. God says to remove this person from the church, no longer associating with the person, even though most churches do not do this, even when they are aware of it. I guess they’re afraid of being sued or something. So, not getting sued is then more important than following what God says. Churches rather need to have faith and practice this part of Scripture.

Christians Just as Bad as the Rest of Us? Part 3 (TMF:793)

Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Peace to Live By: Christians Just as Bad as the Rest of Us? Part 3 (TMF:793) - Daniel Litton
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       I agree that this is a problem—the fact that some proclaim to be Christian and yet do not follow the Bible—and it is more an issue in certain churches versus other churches. God actually had made provisions for this in his Word. We just considered a passage from 1 Corinthians chapter 6, let’s go ahead and move back a chapter to chapter 5. If we pick up in verse 9, we read the following from the Apostle Paul: “I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.” (1 Corinthians 5:9-13, ESV)

Christians Just as Bad as the Rest of Us? Part 2 (TMF:792)

Tuesday, January 02, 2018
Peace to Live By: Christians Just as Bad as the Rest of Us? Part 2 (TMF:792) - Daniel Litton
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       Whatever the case, these people give Christians a bad name because some in the world notice these people who say they are Christian and yet are doing things God clearly prohibits in his Word. But the New Testament actually says that these folks, those who regularly and continually commit the ‘big’ sins, are not actually Christians but are false brothers and sisters. So, their testimony should be ignored because it is not the true testimony of Christ. For 1 Corinthians 6 says: “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-11, ESV).

Christians Just as Bad as the Rest of Us? Part 1 (TMF:791)

Monday, January 01, 2018
Peace to Live By: Christians Just as Bad as the Rest of Us? (TMF:791) - Daniel Litton
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       Contention four: Christians are no better than people who don’t go to church. They are just as bad as the rest of us. Now, it is the case sometimes that there are those who go to church, or even churches as a whole of people who do not practice what the Bible says. These people are Christians in ‘name’ only, but really don’t follow what the Bible says. They are sexually immoral—some fornicating, some committing adultery, others practicing homosexuality, etc, and yet still make a claim and profession in Christ. Some just commit non-sexual sins, like stealing, being greedy with money, or drinking too much. Whatever the case, these people give Christians a bad name because some in the world notice these people who say they are Christian and yet are doing things God clearly prohibits in his Word. But the New Testament actually says that these folks, those who regularly and continually commit the ‘big’ sins, are not actually Christians but are false brothers and sisters.