Which church you're in? Most likely the second one!

 

I don't think there exist a Bible church that will teach you're welcome and live immorally. If there is such a church, it isn't a BIBLE church. It may have a Bible on its name, but it isn't a Bible-believing and Bible-teaching church. 

Most Bible churches will fall between legalistic churches and grace churches. Legalistic churches make it a point to remind people- you're not welcome until you clean up your life. They make it a point to remind everyone that only righteous people belongs to the church, and by righteous they don't mean imputed righteous.

They will only accept people who pray, "God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get." Luke 18:11-12

That is why they are quick to judge people who are "different," meaning, "holy" whatever that means. If you don't go to church, you're the other side. If you don't attend prayer meetings, you're the other side. If you don't give, you're worldly. 

Worldliness for them starts at the door. Outside the church building is the world. The church building is the only holy place. 

But grace churches welcome everyone, clean and unclean. Grace paid the price for the clean and the unclean. The "change in life" starts not from adherence to outside rules and expectations but learning and applying the Word of God. As you study and learn the Bible, you start being transformed on the inside. No, it isn't automatic, and many times we regress. But the truth cleanses the soul, one room at a time. 

Character develops. If you're formerly angry, you learned gentleness. If you're formerly unforgiving, you learn grace. Before you judge based on the outside; now you just want to reach out to others so they can experience the freedom you have. 

We catch the fish first, then clean them later. Legalists have it backwards. They wanted to catch only clean fish. (Did it occur to anyone that the only "clean fish" are dead fish?)

Rather than making the spiritual life a series of do's and dont's, why don't we focus on developing intimacy with the Lord? The works will follow the internal growth. 

Manatiling nakapokus sa biyaya. Huwag ninyong hayaang nakawin ng mga huwad na guro ang inyong karapatang mag-isip ng doktrina. 

(Kung gusto ninyo ng karagdagang impormasyon, bisitahin ninyo kami. May pagtitipon kami sa Dahat, kada Linggo, kada 1:00-3:00 pm. Sana manampalataya kayo at kita-kita tayo.

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