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Felix:
Hi Dave
I think that it's interesting that you are from England. I wonder what church is like there. Here in the
southern part of the U.S. church is a religion in itself. For some of us our whole culture revolves around
church. I used to wonder why the preacher would say that you had to have a personal relationship
with Jesus because the bible never said that. Or, at least not in those words. I read that we are to
"walk with Christ" and that may be the same thing as a personal relationship. But, why should we use
words that are not in the Word.

Also, our church would say that you have to "accept Christ" and I have never read this in the bible either.
My pocket dictionary defines accept as to receive willing. Doesn't the bible say that there is none willing?

Felix

Joel:
Tis true it is the Lord that is working a work in us, in as much as we are changing from glory to glory. Learning about him in the Word, with the witness of the Holy Spirit.

Ain't me that's heading anything up, I can only hope to be lead by the Holy Spirit to more truth and bear fruit that pleases him in good works, rather than evil.
 
 Colossians 1:27
 To whom God was pleased to make know how great for the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is, Christ WITHIN AND AMONG YOU the hope of [realizing] the glory.

To me at least that's getting pretty personal. :)

Joel
 

chav:
Hi
thanks for your replies.I agree God is leading us all the time whether we are aware or acknowledge it or not.Also Christ himself stated

'Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.' Joh 14:23 

So I guess that makes it pretty personal too but I'm not so sure whether I have reached that level yet
Dave

Foxx:

--- Quote from: Dave UK on February 19, 2011, 09:59:15 AM ---Hi
thanks for your replies.I agree God is leading us all the time whether we are aware or acknowledge it or not.Also Christ himself stated

'Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.' Joh 14:23 

So I guess that makes it pretty personal too but I'm not so sure whether I have reached that level yet
Dave

--- End quote ---


Well, just try not to worry about it too much (not saying you are for sure). There a lot of things I struggle with but I will keep obeying as best as I know how and it Lord willing it will continue to grow. Your recognition of these things is most certainly a good thing!

onelovedread:
As you have therefore received Christ, [even] Jesus the Lord, [so] walk (regulate your lives and conduct yourselves) in union with and conformity to Him. Have the roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted [in Him, fixed and founded in Him], being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving. See to it that no one carries you off as spoil or makes you yourselves captive by his so-called philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit (idle fancies and plain nonsense), following human tradition (men's ideas of the material rather than the spiritual world), just crude notions following the rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding [the teachings of] Christ (the Messiah).

My counsel for you is simple and straightforward: Just go ahead with what you've been given. You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now live him. You're deeply rooted in him. You're well constructed upon him. You know your way around the faith. Now do what you've been taught. School's out; quit studying the subject and start living it! And let your living spill over into thanksgiving.
Watch out for people who try to dazzle you with big words and intellectual double-talk. They want to drag you off into endless arguments that never amount to anything. They spread their ideas through the empty traditions of human beings and the empty superstitions of spirit beings. But that's not the way of Christ. Everything of God gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear him clearly. You don't need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ, and the emptiness of the universe without him. When you come to him, that fullness comes together for you, too. His power extends over everything.

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