BrotherTony

Maybe you should try a different approach in your posts, Morales. It's hard NOT to take some of your posts personally especially in the light of how they're worded. It doesn't seem like you're trying to "take the trash out that nobody wants to do, or smell." It seems like you, if you truly are an evangelist, are being negative against your own denomination. Most all of these threads you've started have been this way. You say, "I being an evangelist can speak freely without worrying that I might get fired. I'm non profit." The way you approach things can definitely get you "fired" in the respect that the people you're preaching to can decide NOT to have you back. I know many evangelists who thought they were free to say what they wanted, but, they found that a LOT of what they said, and even how they approached the subjects they preached on WERE NOT Scripturally sound. The Bible tells us to "speak the truth in love," yet, many of us, including me, don't often follow through on this. I would implore and encourage you to try another tact. This one is truly not working here. That could definitely be why you "haven't been able to fellowship much here." I don't think it's that nobody here wants to fellowship with you, it's just that you make it rough on yourself. BT

Never seen it in a Baptist church. Examples? Seems like you're hitting on the negative again.....

If the churches got "hidden things" as you stated, ie, salaries and complete financial reports, then the congregants and the deacons have the responsibility to make sure that this changes. There should NEVER be hidden finances in a 501c3 (Church). If there is, they can lose their tax exempt status from the government, and shouldn't be operating as a church...since the church is the people in it, not the building. I've NEVER known a church to have "hidden" anything when it comes to finances. Not in the Methodist church, the IFB churches I grew up in and attended until 22 years ago, nor the SBC churches my wife and I have been a part of. Salaries are ALWAYS to be open, and those in leadership held accountable for making these things known.

Tonight we're having baked chicken thighs, macaroni and cheese, green beans, slaw, and a bicuit each from ones left over from biscuits and gravy this morning! ? My wife makes the best biscuits I've ever eaten. We'll probably put bbq sauce on the chicken. We'll be having blueberry muffins and coffee later for dessert.

I've listened to him several times over the last year or so, and I've never found anything questionable.

We're not sure she'll be a Supreme Court Justice yet. There are still some variables to take into account, and some players might be changing their minds on their votes. If Susan Collins of Maine votes FOR her, as she did when they put her up for a Circuit Court or appellate positions a short while back, then we'll be in deep trouble. If this woman can't give the truth on what a woman is, and is giving out very lenient sentences to child sex offenders, she SHOULD NOT be on the SCOTUS.

Thankfully we only get part of our meat supply from the grocery. We've got a friend who raises Dexter steer, and he slaughters at least three a month along with a hog. We get a majority of our meet through him because we know the poor meat cuts at the market. I was with Winn-Dixie back in the 1980s, and left them because they were using spoiled meat, bleached, and mixing it with good. Then they were also doing as you said, pushing off certain cuts of meat as something they weren't. Another man from our church was my boss, and we both walked off the job because of unethical business practices. It was pretty good money for a 24 year old. I'm thankful that I had to opportunity to learn most of that business, though I didn't stay with it. I've had to work so many jobs off and on alongside the ministry...that is...until I went disabled. Still, the Lord has blessed. ? What was your favorite cut of meat?

It's actually called a "center-cut pork loin". I was a butcher for a couple of years at Winn-Dixie in Augusta, GA...LOL Funny how people from my old profession keep popping up. ? We take it, take off as much of the fat as is possible so it's got to be trimmed once we get it home. Then we cut it into slices, usually 1" to 1 1/2"s thick. Then we slice down through the center LONGWISE (side to side) about 5/8 of the way, turning the two sides out. Then we place the piece of meat in a long piece of plastic wrap, and with a meat/tenderizing mallet, beat the slice of meat until it's quite thin. The coating for the meat can be your own concoction, or you can use Indiana recipe for coating. I usually use it, as that's what I grew up on and it's less expensive to make than some of the others. When it's been butterflied and beat out thinly, it will be quite large. It's a beautiful sammich! Hope you get to try it sometime....most like it...hope you will, too.

I was born and raised until I was 6 1/2 in Bloomington, IN. I grew up with these wonderful sandwiches! We had them when we moved to Pekin, IL...readily available all of the time. When I moved to GA, I was surprised that people didn't know what they were, especially with the amount of pork they all ate. I showed many people how to hand-bread these wonderful loins, and they are still eating them to this day. My wife and I had considered starting a food truck or a small restaurant that served these sandwiches, but the Lord led us in a different direction. I hand-breaded these after butterflying them from a nice cut of pork loin. Believe me, they're well worth making! Nearly everyone we've served them to has wanted to get the instructions on how to butterfly and hand=bread, and fry these wonderful sammiches! ?

Ah....tonight we'll be having hand-breaded pork tenderloin sandwiches...the tenderloin is as big as a plate with a hamburger bun, pickle, mustard, ketchup, mayo, and pickle. One of these will feed both my bride and me! Can't get these at ANY restaurant here in Tennessee that I know of...the last one I had was nearly 28 years ago in Illinois when we lived there. I grew up on these sandwiches and potato logs....that's the fare for tonight. ? I might make some baked beans to go with it...The restaurant that made this sammich famous in our area was Maid-Rite.

I've heard this preached many times, and it's ALWAYS in a church pastored by Calvinist doctrine. We've only been a member of one church that taught this, and though we didn't particularly agree with it, it was a soulwinning church and the Lord had placed us there. We were there for a little over two years before the doctrine became so strongly entrenched in Calvinism that some of the people asked why we had to go soulwinning any longer if God had already chosen certain people to be saved...the visitation program was dropped, as was the bus ministry, and we felt led to leave. It's not Scriptural, and I can't back the doctrine, though I have many friends who ARE Calvinists.

It could mean that there are times when it's prudent to scale back in what we're doing for the sake of what we are trying to accomplish. It's not a sin to scale back to have enough resources for a future point in time.

The OP refers to John 11:54. There's a specificity in the question, I believe, and in the verse as well from what I read. Isn't anything from the Word of God significant, especially if there's reference to what Christ did and why he did it? The KJV just says that Christ didn't walk anymore OPENLY among them...Don't know if that specifically means he stopped his public ministry, but it would seem so.

Sorry, but I'd need more sufficient evidence. I have family in not only the military, but also in the medical and research fields, and though this is possible, it doesn't seem plausible. I'm not saying they're lying, but, I am saying there needs to be more credible sources and reports. I don't trust the MSM but I also don't trust people who have gone too far over to "the other side." Both are just as guilty of inciting panic in people.

I didn't approach anyone, but I've had several come to me by email, etc. I don't have to be "privy to every conversation" to have feedback given to me. I do know people who are friends with people here who contact me. That's not a sin...nor is it a sin to try to give them spriritual guidance and advice, contrary to YOUR opinion. It's NOT called gossip unless you feel that you've got some inner truth that others don't.

Tradition IS a ritual, Morales. Nothing wrong with church rituals if they're not unscriptural in practice,, and once again, spreading the palm leaves is not. It's up to each individual church to make that decision on whether or not to reinact or practice this ritual every year.

Please reread his statement....Yes, he DOES ask a question after he that clapping is mentioned....Go futher where he states it's in appropriate. The Bible NOWHERE says it is....the sensual WAS mentioned and it is implied...His personal preferences were clearly stated....You've clearly taken his side in this, and that's fine. But, my being strong in my response to him IS NOT an attack, and if you believe it is, I believe your judgement is clouded towards me and in favor of Jerry, as was discussed by us earlier. I have nothing against Jerry, and you know very well that's the truth. He, though, seems to be able to strongly disagree with people and never suffer a word of reprimand. JMHO I'm NOT the only one who has noticed this.

Not all clapping to music is "sensual". Are you the Holy Spirit where you can try to impose standards that aren't even in the Bible on people and tell them how to worship? As you stated, it's YOUR PERSONAL PREFERENCE! That's fine...act accordingly, but don't try to tell others how they should or shouldn't show affirmation when there's no definite scriptural basis imposed. As I stated before, it's up to every congregation to decide on how they want to give affirmation,, and nowhere does it say they shouldn't clap, nor does it say they should clap for a message, music or otherwise.

I know of several churches, IFB, SBC, GARBC, BMA, ABA, etc., that have clapping during the music, after the music, and during preaching. There's nothing wrong with it...it's just another way of affirming what the song, the preacher, or the choir has stated. Many try to make more out of it than what it is...go figure. For the record, it's not my favorite form of affirmation, either.

Thankfully, I don't have to "study about it." I'm in it. I don't agree with everything they do, but I know that churches who have signed onto the 2000 version of the agreement won't be promoting homosexuality in any way shape or fashion without being booted out of fellowship and participation in the cooperative program for missions. There's nothing to stop themselves from calling themselves SBC, but the aren't.

Personally, I believe that the things you are mentioning are the part of his ministry, yes but, though carried out in the public view, he wasn't specifically ministering to the public, except in the sense of becming God's sacrifice. If I'm not mistaken, Brother, even the demons called him the Son of God, and the Son of the most high!

Tonight we're going to be having a blade chuck roast from the slow cooker, with slowlly steamed vegetables, biscuits, and strawberry short-cake for dessert! That roast is big enough to last two meals! PTL for that, especially with the price of meat becoming so high here in Tennessee

There is nothing specifically against Scripture in clapping during music. If it's at the end of special music or preaching, it probably doesn't belong there. But, there's nothing specifically unscriptural about that either. It's up to every church to decide for themselves instead of others to make blanket statements or judgements on what another AUTONOMOUS CHURCH should be doing. Scripture mentions dancing, singing, and the raising of hands in praise, yet, we find that many denominations, INCLUDING BAPTISTS, do have a problem with some of these...still...there's nothing in particularly unscriptural about them. It's the manner and settings in which they're used that bring them into question.

No...it doesn't necessarily sound Catholic....there are many churches of all denominations that celebrate the last week of the life of Christ. There is no Biblical command to do so, but many believe it brings them into a more spiritual mindset and helps them to appreciate more tha sacrifice by Jesus Christ for our salvation.