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Old 05-22-07, 12:08 PM
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Re: one "true" Church?

Thank you both for your kind replies. Sorry for my delay in answering, I was unexpectedly out of town for a while.
I am a still a little baffled about the Church of Christ. I visited one recently. They share the traditional teachings of the Churches of Christ: no eternal security, no "easy salvation" or "quick prayerism" but rather repentence, the necessity of baptism, no musical instruments. They had lovely brochures on some of these subjects. However, the Minister (this was a full-time, payed position), had no understanding of any other matter in the Bible whatsoever. He read a passage and then proceeded to twist every sentence out of context to suit his own agenda for his sermon. It was all nice-sounding rubbish. Also, everything he said was more along the lines of psychology than about spiritual matters. It was almost like a secular psychologist had opened the Bible, read a chaptre, and then, without having any understanding of what he read, tried to use it in some brainwashing agenda he had.
In the Church bulletin, there were little messages from various other Churches of Christ, mostly in Texas, Louisianna, Arkansas and Tennessee. Some of these were also a little scary, along the same lines as the minister's services.
I fear that many Churches of Christ know the few things that distinguish them from other "Christians," but are really completely spiritually dead. I don't want to waste my time travelling to a far-away Church that is going to be the same as the one I visited. I live in Ontario, in Canada. The Church I visited is the only one in my town. Is anyone PERSONALLY aware of a good Church anywhere in the province of Ontario? Or even in Quebec or in upstate New York?
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