Freehold!

[Tomthefool]

Where is it? It doesn't come up on Google maps, and there is not a great deal of information about it on the internet, I thought there would be more with it being the center of Christian Baptist church.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Freehold!

Where is it? It doesn't come up on Google maps, and there is not a great deal of information about it on the internet, I thought there would be more with it being the center of Christian Baptist church.

Unsaved trash are not welcome in Freehold. We keep to ourselves around here. You'd be better off studying the Bible than any maps.

[Father Thomas Martin]

Re: Freehold!

"Unsaved unwelcome?"

I have a problem with this policy. Check out Matthew 9:9-13

As Jesus passed on from there,
he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the customs post.
He said to him, “Follow me.”
And he got up and followed him.
While he was at table in his house,
many tax collectors and sinners came
and sat with Jesus and his disciples.
The Pharisees saw this and said to his disciples,
“Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
He heard this and said,
“Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do.
Go and learn the meaning of the words,
‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’
I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.”

[Ahimaaz Smith]

Re: Freehold!

Where is it? It doesn't come up on Google maps, and there is not a great deal of information about it on the internet, I thought there would be more with it being the center of Christian Baptist church.

We went to a fair amount of trouble and legal expense to get Freehold off the online maps. We did this because we're a peaceful church, and our security squad got tired of shooting so many unsaved interlopers. Besides, hollow point ammunition is more expensive than you'd think.

If have legitimate business in Freehold, I'm sure the Lord will show you the way. Until then, you ought to be thinking about the road to Heaven through the resurrection of Jesus Christ rather than the road to Freehold.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Freehold!

"Unsaved unwelcome?"

I have a problem with this policy. Check out Matthew 9:9-13

You have bigger problems than that, mary worshiper.

"Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds" -- 2 John 1:9-11

[Ahimaaz Smith]

Re: Freehold!

Check out Matthew 9:9-13

Martin, try using the King James Version 1611 if you want to quote scripture, not one of your gimmicked-up Catholic translations. What you do in your church is your business (well, yours and the altar boys involved), but we don't take kindly to heathen translations of God's Holy Word at Landover.

Are you wholly unable to grasp the concept that Jesus's mission might be different from the missions of other Christians? Someday, you really ought to read the whole Bible:

The stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. Numbers 1:51

...them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. 1 corinthians 5:12-13

[StarrKingGrad]

Re: Freehold!

I'm not the slightest bit interested in the location of Freehold, Iowa. However, Father Martin has raised an excellent point that we can't just gloss over by saying that Jesus ministered to the sinners, whereas other Christians must set themselves apart.

The Bible commands Christians:

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Numbers 1 applies only to strangers who approach the tabernacle. Are you Mormon's that you have a tabernacle in the Continental* United States? 1 Corinthians obviously applies only to persons within the Christian community who will not follow the teachings of Christ, so how can it apply to the unsaved masses? More to the point, how can you comply with the injunctions of Deuteronomy 10, Mark 16, and Colossians 4 if you isolate yourselves from the rest of humanity?

*If you were anyone else, I'd let this slide, but you should note that the Book of Corinthians is spelled with a capital "C."

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Freehold!

How Do People Get Saved if They Are Not Allowed to Attend Church?

It never ceases to amaze us the number of so-called "Christians" ask us this question. If they would only blow the dust off of their Bibles and put their noses into the 16th Chapter of Mark, they would find that Jesus commands us to evangelize the world! He didn't say, "find a comfortable pew each Sunday morning and cross your fingers in hopes that some unsaved piece of human refuse will walk through the doors of your church." No, he said, ""Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel." That word, "go" there is a verb. And for those of you illiterate, misguided Christians who allow unsaved people through the doors of your church each Sunday morning, a verb is an "action word," and "go" means "GO!" as in "leave," or "SCRAM!" It doesn't mean, sit on your hiney! The only place for evangelism is outside the confines of the Lord's four-walled holy dwelling place. God's home is a place for True Christians™ to fellowship. Allowing an unsaved person into church is like President George W. Bush inviting members of Al-Qadea into the Oval Office to sit in on a meeting to discuss ways of capturing Osama bin Laden. It's something you JUST DON'T DO! PERIOD!

[StarrKingGrad]

Re: Freehold!

I meant Smith, not Ezekiel. Ezekiel has other issues, but Smith's the guy always willing to point out typographical errors commited by others. Remove the mote in thine own eye, Ahimaaz!

[Ahimaaz Smith]

Re: Freehold!

I meant Smith, not Ezekiel. Ezekiel has other issues, but Smith's the guy always willing to point out typographical errors commited by others. Remove the mote in thine own eye, Ahimaaz!

You mean typos such as using Mormon's instead of Mormons as the plural form of Hellbound sinners?

I really can't be clearer than Pastor Ezekiel was regarding who gets into the LBC compound. Yes, we must preach to the unsaved, but that doesn't mean we have to do it here in Freehold. We have extensive missionary work around the globe that proves we follow scripture on this point, not to mention the work we do in these forums exposing outsiders to what the Bible really says.

Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature means exactly that. It does not say, bring ye all the world into your home and preach the Gospel. If that had been what Jesus intended, then that's what Jesus would have said.

[Brother Temperance]

Re: Freehold!

I meant Smith, not Ezekiel. Ezekiel has other issues, but Smith's the guy always willing to point out typographical errors commited by others. Remove the mote in thine own eye, Ahimaaz!

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