UNITY IN THE FAITH
The Key here is "in the faith" not outside it or
by bringing the world the Flesh & the Devil in
That seems to be todays popular notion of Unity.
How else can we have Unity with Pagan notions? There is a Biblical
doctrine of separation, it is not popular. We are not to be yoked with
unbelievers.
I care not to have Unity with Bruce Cockburn, the
POPE, LDS & every false way
Walter Cradock was a Welsh Nonconformist preacher or Puritan who
was decried by his enemies as a "Bold, Ignorant Fellow"
God, as it were, keeps silence in the midst of the
greatest troubles, that he may, as it were, gather the wicked
into one faggot, into one bundle, that they may be destroyed
together. There is a great deal of ado to "gather the
saints" in this world; and truly there is some ado to gather the
wicked. So God withdraws himself from his people, yet he hath a
hook within their hearts, he holds them up secretly by his
Spirit, that they shall not leave him; yet the world shall not see but
that God hath quite left them, and all their ordinances and his
gospel and everything; and there the wicked come together and
insult, whereby God may come upon them at once, and destroy them,
as we find ten nations in the Psalm. And so in Genesis God stirs up the
nations against Abraham and his posterity, and there are ten nations
that God promised to cut off before Abraham at once, the Perizzites, and
the Jebusites, and the Canaanites, etc. So God heaps them together,
and burns them like stubble. Those that burn stubble have rakes,
and they gather it to heaps, and then they fire it. This is
the way of God's keeping silence among his people, and sitting
still in the midst of their miseries, thus God gathers their enemies
in heaps as stubble, that he may burn them together. Gualter (Walter)
Cradock, in "Divine Drops."
Judy Taylor
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Who is Walter Cradock? I agree that 'peace at
any price' is no peace at all so division is not always a bad thing.
However, we are supposed to grow out of it
(that's if we are part of the real Church); contrary to what some claim we are not
just sucked up into Christ because we have not refused the
incarnation. The work of the ministry
(including evangelists) is necessary to prepare God's ppl for works of
service so that the body of Christ may be
built up until we all reach UNITY IN THE FAITH and
(UNITY) IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SON OF GOD and become mature, attaining to the
whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed
back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every
wind of teaching and by the cunning and
craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking
the truth in love, we will in all
things grow up INTO HIM who is the Head, that is
Christ. From him the whole body, joined and
held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up
in love, as each part does its
work.
Do you have a problem with any of
the above Kevin? judyt
"It is better to have divisions than an evil uniformity."
Walter Cradock
Judy Taylor
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In a message dated 2/5/2005
9:56:11 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
There is no strife
or disunity in Christ and He is not divided
JD: On the
surface, this is untrue.
jt: Had you ever considered that
maybe what we see 'on the surface' is not the
reality?
But, perhaps I do not know
what you mean with the phrase "no stife or disunity in
Christ."
jt: It means just what it says - the Church he is
coming for will have no spot, wrinkle, or blemish; wouldn't you
categorize strife and
disunity as wrinkles and
blemishes?.
When can we say unity has occurred?
jt: When we are of one heart and one
mind. When we are all say the same thing and doing what He
says.
When a division occurs and assuming one
believer in definitely in Christ -- how does the
onlooker tell the difference in the two opponents?
jt: Eventually, as ppl grow into Christ
and His love is perfected in their hearts a wolf will be exposed
in spite of the sheepskin by
what is coming out of his
mouth.
In I Cor 1, when
ones describes as a part of the problem are in
Christ? John
jt: Is the above a question? I
don't get it....
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