Posted by
The Chiefest of Sinners on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 1:10:56 AM
Seems like everyone is a "devout Christian" these days, even the conservative feminists. It's really very simple though, a personal relationship with Jesus Christ is all it takes.
One can refer to the things that divide professing Christians as "religious tenets" and "dimensions of faith", but the Apostle Paul said it this way in 1Corinthians 3:
3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
4For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
1 Corinthians 11:
18For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
19For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
There are many denominations among us but none are truly doing the will of God. The will of God, as outlined in John 17:
20Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
God's will is that we all be ONE. When someone separates himself, he is sensual, not spiritual, and NOT DOING God's will.
Jude 1:19
These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
We must as Christians, abide in the Truth. Who, or what, is the truth? Jesus Christ, the Word that was made flesh. The Way, the Truth, and the Life. THAT’S the truth. Read John 8:
31Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed
Romans 8:
14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
TRUE DEVOUT CHRISTIANS are led by the Spirit of God and follow the Truth, the Word of God.
John 4:
24God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.