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June 10, 2015
TEN TIPS FOR A PROFESSING CHRISTIAN WIFE
1
Little secrets lead to bigger secrets. NEVER lie to or mislead your husband about ANYTHING because it won't be long before “your sin will find you out!” Numbers 32:23
2
At some point, you will have to learn that life isn’t all about you. Philippians 2:3
3
Love is about relationship. "The more I love my husband, and seek a relationship with him, the less critical and duty-bound I become." Titus 2:4
4
Be very careful about reading romance novels; they set you up for an unrealistic view of romance. 1 Corinthians 15:33
5
Never live in your marriage with always "one foot out the door," just in case. Don’t give up. Love never fails. 1 Cor. 13
6
Be thankful for the husband you have. Accept him as he is, not for what you want him to be. Colossians 3:15
7
Don’t compare! Don’t buy into the game of comparing him with anyone else’s husband. James 3:16
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NEVER ask others, "Did I marry the right person?" You are obviously indicating that you have never even committed to being a wife at all! Proverbs 31:12
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Always speak well of your husband in front of others. Colossians 4:6
10
Deal with difficulties directly with him, not with your “pastor,” your family, your girl friends, or Facebook friends. The success of the marriage is the important part, not whether you are right. 1 Peter 5:6
November 11, 2010
The Christian Church: Distorted and Deformed
Like a dead corpse rotting away, today’s “organized/institutionalized local church system” bares virtually no likeness or semblance to what was once a living and vibrant community of believers who knew what is was to be set free from the entanglements and the yokes of bondage.
Translators are given a great responsibility in making sure they get it right, especially key words. The changing of one word can literally change the world. Do they get it right, or do they have something to protect?
The word “c-h-u-r-c-h” is one of those words that has impacted the world and has subverted the purpose for which it was intended. Because the translators substituted the word “church,” meaning a building, instead of the Holy Spirits word, ecclesia, a word reflecting a functioning body or a community, it has affected our whole approach to the meaning of the body of Christ. We have been given a word from the translators that has nothing to do with the original Greek word ecclesia.
This may come as a surprise to some people but there is no such thing as a CHURCH (institution) in all of Scripture! Oh yes indeed, the word CHURCH is found therein about 100 times; but the English word CHURCH should NOT be there at all. That word is not a TRANSLATION of the Greek word ecclesia; but it is substituted for a translation of the Greek word ecclesia in every place it appears in the NT Scriptures with the exception of three instances; all three found in Acts 19:32, 39, and 41.
Now dear reader, at this point, you have a choice: either believe what the translators had to say or go to the original language and read what Jesus and the apostles had to say. You will surely find no word coming from Jesus that He called the translators to represent His authority.
Doesn’t it stir your mind and heart enough to move you to really examine why this is true and consider all the error it has brought upon the world? Most people in the church are not aware that some Scriptures have been mistranslated, and then misapplied by human leaders.
How did the Greek word Ecclesia, meaning a called out assembly, congregation or community, come to be translated “church”, a word that is neither Greek or English but is of doubtful Latin origin and implies a building and temple worship? What is a word that is neither Greek NOR English doing in a Greek to English translation?
Read the full and complete article: “The Christian Church: Distorted and Deformed”
to find the very revealing answers to these questions.
Warning: It will not be pretty.
Please click the links highlighted to take you there!
www.wickedshepherds.com
Translators are given a great responsibility in making sure they get it right, especially key words. The changing of one word can literally change the world. Do they get it right, or do they have something to protect?
The word “c-h-u-r-c-h” is one of those words that has impacted the world and has subverted the purpose for which it was intended. Because the translators substituted the word “church,” meaning a building, instead of the Holy Spirits word, ecclesia, a word reflecting a functioning body or a community, it has affected our whole approach to the meaning of the body of Christ. We have been given a word from the translators that has nothing to do with the original Greek word ecclesia.
This may come as a surprise to some people but there is no such thing as a CHURCH (institution) in all of Scripture! Oh yes indeed, the word CHURCH is found therein about 100 times; but the English word CHURCH should NOT be there at all. That word is not a TRANSLATION of the Greek word ecclesia; but it is substituted for a translation of the Greek word ecclesia in every place it appears in the NT Scriptures with the exception of three instances; all three found in Acts 19:32, 39, and 41.
Now dear reader, at this point, you have a choice: either believe what the translators had to say or go to the original language and read what Jesus and the apostles had to say. You will surely find no word coming from Jesus that He called the translators to represent His authority.
Doesn’t it stir your mind and heart enough to move you to really examine why this is true and consider all the error it has brought upon the world? Most people in the church are not aware that some Scriptures have been mistranslated, and then misapplied by human leaders.
How did the Greek word Ecclesia, meaning a called out assembly, congregation or community, come to be translated “church”, a word that is neither Greek or English but is of doubtful Latin origin and implies a building and temple worship? What is a word that is neither Greek NOR English doing in a Greek to English translation?
Read the full and complete article: “The Christian Church: Distorted and Deformed”
to find the very revealing answers to these questions.
Warning: It will not be pretty.
Please click the links highlighted to take you there!
www.wickedshepherds.com
December 3, 2009
A Word To The Wives
The following article is written primarily for Christian wives, only because they have been more susceptible to the dangers that we will be looking in to. However, husbands should take careful heed as well, seeing that many of them have been snared into the same dangers.
What will be described has mostly taken place in what is generally known as the Reformed Baptist circles because, up until this point, this is the group with which I have been identified with for most of the past thirty to forty years. Nevertheless, the following could be said of any minister and/or denomination, because the problems discussed are the logical consequences of any "church system" in which "rulership" has gone awry. There are churches of all different stripes that will clearly fit the unbiblical practices that will be exposed in this article: Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, WWCG, JW, Mormons, Evangelical, etc., etc.......it doesn't matter!
All are equally susceptible and some are equally guilty of the kind of corrupt leadership that will be described.
I realize that there are some who will not even believe the things that they will be reading. They will chafe; they will mock; they will not heed the warnings and thereby say, “who is this, that we should believe him!”
Many who read this will say, “None of those things could ever happen in my church. No. Not my Pastor. Why,.......I've known him to be a humble man and have benefited much from his ministry.”
Be careful! You may be surprised!
There have been (and continue to be) many cases where a pastor has deliberately placed himself between a husband and wife and used his so-called pastoral authority as a means of manipulating them both into personal loyalty to himself.
Some of these actions have been willfully and deliberately instigated by the pastor in order to break up the marriage through separation or divorce because one of them was beginning to "step on the pastor's toes."
My friend, if your loyalty to, or dependence upon, any church leader ever comes close to being equal to your loyalty and love to your husband or wife, then you are so sick spiritually that you can't think straight.
Read the article in its entirety here:
A Word To The Wives
When those in “positions of leadership” in the church, or anyone else, tampers with someone's marriage... THEY ARE TREADING HOLY GROUND!
http://www.wickedshepherds.com/
What will be described has mostly taken place in what is generally known as the Reformed Baptist circles because, up until this point, this is the group with which I have been identified with for most of the past thirty to forty years. Nevertheless, the following could be said of any minister and/or denomination, because the problems discussed are the logical consequences of any "church system" in which "rulership" has gone awry. There are churches of all different stripes that will clearly fit the unbiblical practices that will be exposed in this article: Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, WWCG, JW, Mormons, Evangelical, etc., etc.......it doesn't matter!
All are equally susceptible and some are equally guilty of the kind of corrupt leadership that will be described.
I realize that there are some who will not even believe the things that they will be reading. They will chafe; they will mock; they will not heed the warnings and thereby say, “who is this, that we should believe him!”
Many who read this will say, “None of those things could ever happen in my church. No. Not my Pastor. Why,.......I've known him to be a humble man and have benefited much from his ministry.”
Be careful! You may be surprised!
There have been (and continue to be) many cases where a pastor has deliberately placed himself between a husband and wife and used his so-called pastoral authority as a means of manipulating them both into personal loyalty to himself.
Some of these actions have been willfully and deliberately instigated by the pastor in order to break up the marriage through separation or divorce because one of them was beginning to "step on the pastor's toes."
My friend, if your loyalty to, or dependence upon, any church leader ever comes close to being equal to your loyalty and love to your husband or wife, then you are so sick spiritually that you can't think straight.
Read the article in its entirety here:
A Word To The Wives
When those in “positions of leadership” in the church, or anyone else, tampers with someone's marriage... THEY ARE TREADING HOLY GROUND!
http://www.wickedshepherds.com/
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