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Following Christ: Confess your sins... so that you may be healed (James 5:16)

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February 9, 2011. Confess your sins. so that you may be healed (James 5:16). Confessing of sins has been a question for me as well. To how many people? Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise. Is anyone among you sick? Well it's more complicated with present repeting sins. I don't have a good answer here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Letter to the Community. The Bible Commentaries (Crosswalk). WarumGott - also from them.

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Following Christ: Tasks of an excluded one

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January 24, 2011. Tasks of an excluded one. I am very astonished about the loss of recognition of my former brothers and about the way many of you speak about the church in this blog and in some other websites, instead of fighting for deep humility and to find out the deep roots and reasons of your sins which led to the exclusion. Only this may help to remain in relation with God. Not the church is guilty but we our self. It is not our task to criticise and accuse the community. My only task I see now as...

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Following Christ: As others don't come, so don't I

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December 8, 2013. As others don't come, so don't I. As others don't come to fellowship this time, I won't come either." Said by a former leader and faithful participant. What is it? Just effect of burn-out? Avoiding even possibility for personal talks? It hurts and makes me feel rejected again. And somewhat guilty of doing something wrong in relationships again. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Letter to the Community. The Bible Commentaries (Crosswalk). WarumGott - also from them.

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Following Christ: Saved by grace for doing good

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January 28, 2011. Saved by grace for doing good. I don't remember significant change in the theory about grace, neither in the community nor after: saved by grace for doing good. We should do what is good and right but we cannot deserve our salvation. Grace contains the power for sanctification, for doing good and avoiding bad. I agree a commenter. Id like to comment on that, because for me it seems that even though the group criticizes the Roman Catholic Church the understanding of grace (& salvation?

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Following Christ: Good and bad side of the community

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January 22, 2011. Good and bad side of the community. To give some balance I try to list what I think was good. Everyone encouraged and allowed to contribute. Christian is called to serve God and people, not just the clergy. Bible-study, knowing the right teaching valued and practiced. But probably too strict concerning some details and too demanding for mentally weaker ones). Meeting often to strengthen, encourage/admonish and serve each other, sharing our lives. But in expense of all other relationships.

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Following Christ: There was so much love for the truth

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January 1, 2011. There was so much love for the truth. There was so much love for the truth in the community. Can we imagine that also something bad happened there? As creatures of the perfect God we long for perfection. We are called to be perfect and holy as God is. But unfortunately we are all still imperfect. It is sad. It can make me angry sometimes: why we are so weak? I suppose because all men except Jesus have been imperfect. Is GH or Josef or anybody else from the community perfect? In the commu...

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Following Christ: "It is better to marry than to be aflame" II

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January 14, 2011. It is better to marry than to be aflame" II. As the comments show, the question of marriage is not that simple. I try to explain more my thoughts. I just combined two facts:. 1) rather many sexual, but also other kind of wishes connected to marriage (like having children, having special deep relationship with somebody, etc) in the community. Exclusions and leaving the community because of these. 2) teaching that it is not good to marry. I didnt have this experience. So I would not s...

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Following Christ: Longing for belonging

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March 9, 2015. It's about a year now since the Bible study meetings in our home ceased unfamously, because there were only few of us and two of them had unsolvable convictions' conflict. As i wrote, I don't feel really belonging in our mainline congregation. Now the family life demands attention and has to be in the center. Well, now I feel somewhat alone spiritually again and with new challenges to find spiritual activities that fit my familiy as well. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Following Christ: R.A's comments on 'Decrease'

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January 12, 2011. RA's comments on 'Decrease'. As comments of Decrease. Following the comments under the post. Concerning 'humane', I remember some distinction between 'human' and 'humane'. One was the opposite for 'spiritual', the other was positive. But it wasn't used much.". 10 January, 2011 12:31. We saw it as a basis of individualistic and tolerant society, which is quite exact counterpart to our community's ideas.". Humanistic' is seen clearly as negative notion. Every concept outside concepts ...