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VIEW TESTIMONY
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POSTED BY:
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AnthonyB
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DATE:
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16.05.2008 |
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SUBJECT:
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My Testimony - Christian |
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LOCATION:
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Melbourne, Australia
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Jesus Christ is the Son of God and my Lord and Saviour.
The Bible is the God given witness for all people to come to faith, the written word about the Living Word. It calls all people to believe in Jesus as Lord, repent of their sins, be baptized (immersed in water after having believed and repented) for the remission of their sins and walk in obedience to His commands as members of the one universal, apostolic church to which all that are His are part of. This church exists today as congregations under the governance of elders, each congregation responsible directly to their Lord for the care of His sheep in their care.
I believe that creeds should never be used to seperate His people from another but we are to live and worship in accordance with the practices of the New Testament church as recorded in His word with the freedom to express ourselves in the diversity that He has allowed. That all believers should seek to be unified under the teachings and practices of the New Testament and whilst being free to rejoice in the traditions handed down to them, they in no way should be used to seperate our Lord's church nor to override the original design given the church by God but rather as ways to enrich each other with every blessing that Christ has given.
Jesus died and was physically ressurected and his continued physicality continues to hold open the promise of our physical ressurection. Families will be reunited eternally in one heaven and not in any way seperated from each other in differing partitions of heaven. That people will be rewarded according to their faith and their faith will be shown by the works that their faith caused in them. Gender will no longer differentiate his people but they shall be glorified according to their works for their Lord.
That charismatic gifts exist today and that the New Testament explicitly lays out the conditions for their use in the church today.
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