My church, bigger or smaller depend on how one sees it. Its in my HEART.

I have watch till episode 5. My rating?

Story line line = 7.5/10

Drawing = 8.5/10

Overall = 8.0/10

It good

So Thank you for recommending it.

LOL.

I have been to so many churches. Charismatic churches operating in shoplots or underground churches in China. Be it less than 10 members to thousands of members, all have different issues. Question one should ask is if you are being called by God to serve or you are there to judge.

Serve for God not serve for other people or, worst, serve for themselves.

At the moment i don't hv a pc to reply to the above so please make do with what i hv commented in post#509 @page 26.

Thank you.

EU had no choice. It was supposed to be the humane thing to do since Arabs nation aren't doing alot.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/justine-fran..._b_9297222.html?

This post has been edited by tinarhian: Feb 28 2016, 01:15 AM

Heck even China aren't keen on Syrian immigrants.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/26/china-...crisis-migrant/

On March 7, the EU will once again attempt to find a solution to the refugee crisis at a special summit meeting in Brussels.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe...-a-1079547.html



This post has been edited by tinarhian: Feb 28 2016, 01:18 AM

Blindspot61, try this dish. One of Oktoberfest must-have menu.

http://www.quick-german-recipes.com/pork-hocks-recipe.html

Arabs are selfish and cowards people even towards their so called bro and sis in the name of their religion. I understand about EU stressing so much about humanity but its going to be their downfall because those people (majority) is not going to repay them with kindness.

p/s. there I go 'judging' people again. . . .

This post has been edited by Blindspot61: Feb 28 2016, 02:17 AM

China don't give a damn about human rights and they know the danger of these people's mentality.

Wow, looks good. I'll hv to go through the recipe to check if there's any ingredient that I can't find here. Thanks.

I have 1 fried chicken recipe I would like to share with you but I need to check if you can get oyster source @ your place?

Thanks again.

So today I went to Kingdom City with my schoolmate.

Wow. The energy.

just tell her the truth

If you're asking what should the believer do, I wouldn't know. Like I said, the said believer maybe totally devastated to the point she's not in the position to do anything, thus it will take on another believer to pray and care for the person. If the said believer is conscious, then my take is for that person to spend time with God not like any other time, to aggressively seek God like really aggressive... refusing to give up until she can hear from God, to receive instruction on what to do.

If you're asking whether she should take on her own life in suicide?

First of all only & only she alone makes that decision, no one else can forcefully decide for her. The basis of saying the Bible forbids suicide is base on hard and fast rule, 1 is 1, 2 is 2, there are no in betweens. Some people say suicide is an unforgivable sin, some say otherwise.

Interestingly there isn't really Thou Shalt not suicide commandment. Most commentary linked suicide with the 6th commandment, do not murder which imo is not suicide.
The definition of murder is; the unlawful killing of another human being with malice or the killing of another human being without justification or valid excuse.

Suicide is often not an overnight decision and one should not dismiss it as something so simple, it is not.

However the New Covenant living is not about hard and fast rule.

Jesus made that quite clear when He healed people on the Sabbath. According to the High Priest, they take the law to the tip of the letter; there can be no form of work even healing on a Sabbath and Jesus says this interestingly.

Then he asked them, "If one of you has a child or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?" And Again Jesus exhibited this when He and his disciple pick heads of grain and eat them on the sabbath. (Matthew 12:1)

With that being said; Only God alone is the rightful judge on what is right or wrong. Whether the believer who committed suicide will end up in heaven is something only God decide.

This explanation of suicide maybe beyond the scope of your intended question...but hey..just in case.

I think it's very hard to judge based on postings in the forum, it could be the Church has always been kind, may have done many things for the congregation.

I'm of the opinion, when a person harbour bitterness, when a complaint is presented, it's the view of the said person, we don't know the entire true situation.

I mean if you choose to believe the one who complain as absolutely 100% true, without knowing the actual background, then it's a bit hard to discuss.

Then we have Christians who r young spiritually and have zeal for God but zeal that lacks spiritual maturity, giving opinions that may have brush you the wrong way.

Either way I apologize if you're offended.

This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Feb 29 2016, 02:04 PM

Well then you're free to find out if the said Church is really as what the one who complain it to be.

That is the only way you'll know for sure.

Like I said; it's very hard to judge based on postings in the forum.

We don't know the real situation, it's not an exclusive clause.

When I say a person is bitter that is not judgement that we talked about in the Bible Definition and it is important because when a person is bitter, his/her opinion of a said matter is usually one sided.

I mean when I said you choose to believe the one who complain as absolutely 100% true, without knowing the actual background, then it's a bit hard to discuss part, was referring to a case here, not yours.



This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Feb 29 2016, 03:18 PM

That conclusion can be based on the person's character & trait. You can study the consistency of his/her story..so to a certain extend you can determine if the said person is really bitter and the problem with bitterness, it usually
affect the person's judgement and emotion.

But when it comes to accusing a Church is this or that, that is more difficult to ascertain because we have nothing to gauge on a forum.

Bear in mind, we never say not to acknowledge if a church has problem but to just be careful not to conclude something that may not be true just because so and so says so. That's all.

And I do agree with what you said earlier..to serve man is to serve God, just so that you know where I stand on this issue.

I'm not saying we shall not point out issues of church. That's not the case. In fact, I had also in the past pointed face blank to a church elder.

In the book of Matthew 7:1-6 where Jesus talks about judging others. Jesus condemns the habit of criticizing others while ignoring one's own faults. Christ followers must first submit themselves to God's righteous standard before attempting to examine and influence the conduct of other Christians. Judging in an unjust manner also includes condemning a wrongdoer without desiring to see the offender return to God and his ways.

Jesus is not denying the necessity of exercising a certain degree of discernment or making value judgments with respect to sin in others. We are also commanded to identify false ministers within the church and to evaluate the character of individuals.

Always remember when we point one finger out, there is always four fingers pointing to yourself.

For the case of kron_ka, I agreed with unknown warrior that we only hear one side of the stories. But based on the stories presented, I believe the issue is not only the CG or church.

Every church has issues. BIG or small. Church is a place for SINNERS. Church is also a place full of IDOLS. Idols as in MONEY, SEX and POWER.

Also, I do not believe you need a recommendation from someone to attend a church service. A church operates on open door policy unless they suspect you have a different motive.

This post has been edited by shioks: Feb 29 2016, 08:17 PM

In many churches, there more female than male. Do expect church members to be wary of a new male visitor or member.