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Family Fun Walk/Run —————————————————— Date: Saturday, 10/02/2010 Registration Time: 8:30 – 9:15am Walk Time: 9:30 – 10:30am Course: This is a 1-mile course along the inside of the beautiful Lockwood and Searls Parks. Participants may walk or run around the set course as many times as they want within the set activity time. Water stations/resting [...]
P.B.C Health and Exercise Ministries Presents… The get off the couch and work-out with Pilgrim Baptist Church campaign… Sweat with us as we listen to the best in Gospel, R&B and Clean Rap… To stamp out Diabetes and High Blood Pressure while creating a leaner and stronger you, while giving God the honor, glory and [...]
God has never favored independent, rebellious, proud, maverick-spirited people who were unwilling to submit to others in the Body of Christ. God has given explicit instructions to “mark and avoid, reject, and expel” those who persist in causing divisions, spreading false doctrine, or who persist in unrepentant, flagrant sin. Generally, it is the “lone ranger” [...]
While some disdain the need for organized Christianity, the New Testament says that Christians should worship together “decently and in an organized way”. Some Christians are against anything that is organized, but if we look at the nature of God Himself, we will see that He is a God of perfect order [...]
The Holy Spirit inspired the writers of the New Testament to write letters to local churches where believers gathered. (The letters to the Philippians, Galatians, Ephesians, and so on.) Apparently, the Holy Spirit knew that letters to local churches would provide the best avenue to share the information He wanted individual believers to have. The [...]
By definition, an army is “men/women organized and disciplined for battle.” Can you imagine an army of soldiers without some type of formal membership? What would an army or an individual soldier be like without any formal commitment to the military? In the same way, there must be some type of formal organization and commitment [...]
Jesus said, “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.” Notice, Jesus did not say, “What the Spirit saith to the isolated Christian.” Notice the word “churches” is plural, denoting local churches! God’s plan for the Body of Christ was revealed then, and continues to be revealed now, [...]
We see many references in the Early Church, which describe a tangible, committed membership which people could join, and where people were counted. The New Testament teaches that, as Christians, we are not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together on a regular basis. We see the early church in the book of Acts meeting [...]
We can draw a parallel between God’s emphasis on “ye are the (universal) Body of Christ, and members in particular,” and “ye are the (local) Body of Christ and members in particular”. If God felt that membership in the universal church was important, would it be any less important on a local level? (See 1 [...]
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