[BrotherLarry]

One of the complaints I have encountered while encouraging others to become Baptist is that we exclude so many from fellowship. They used these as examples:

Poor people: One look at the Landover floor plan discredits this argument. I counted 5 rows of bleacher seats and that doesn’t include the bench outside across the highway.

Sinners: Nonsense. We simply require them to walk in the ways of the Lord, thirty steps behind us until vetted.

What arguments have you heard and how can you prove them wrong (which they always are)?

[Basilissa]

Whew, I was afraid to click on this thread, I thought you were scamming selling something again, my sweet, beloved Brother in Christ.

I agree, we're not exclusive at all. Even tin tithers have their place in Church. Of course, we do not serve liberals nor homosexuals, but that's our God given (and Trump approved) right.

[upchucker67]

Once my theonomic book sales go up, I would be interested to contribute to the financial health of this wonderful church. I'm pleased you accept Christians of all appearances, even bald men. We actually keep a directory of men with male pattern baldness, some I think would be interested to learn more at Landover.


2 Kings 2:23


23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.


^People like to make fun of us, but we are a blessing for Christ, when he looks down from the Heavens, He can see his reflection emitted from our scalp, and He'll wave and say: "Hello!"


Leviticus 13:40


40 And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.

[BrotherLarry]

Lol!!!

Someone told me there are closeted homosexuals here and they named three. One of which was me. ROFL

When will the devil stop this nonsense??

[upchucker67]

Thankfully I was excluded. Mind you, I am not prominent here enough quite yet, but still. I'm absolutely not gay.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Originally Posted by Basilissa

I agree, we're not exclusive at all.

So true, Sister. My husband has recently remarked that Landover Baptist Church, far from being exclusionary, is nowhere near exclusionary enough. People who have previously been expelled or shunned turn up again and again, thinking nobody will notice, and the sheer boredom caused by their inanity is quite exhausting. As he said, it's getting like the Church of England here and, although he has sunk a lot of time - not to mention money - into the church, he is thinking of applying the bygones principle.

[Basilissa]

Originally Posted by Joanna Lytton-Vasey

So true, Sister. My husband has recently remarked that Landover Baptist Church, far from being exclusionary, is nowhere near exclusionary enough. People who have previously been expelled or shunned turn up again and again, thinking nobody will notice, and the sheer boredom caused by their inanity is quite exhausting. As he said, it's getting like the Church of England here and, although he has sunk a lot of time - not to mention money - into the church, he is thinking of applying the bygones principle.

Well, I see Matthew's point, but on the other hand, Sister - we are the only church which guarantees Salvation. That explains the hordes of the unsaved trying to sneak in. They may gather at the gates but they cannot get in without passing the inspection by the DoF.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Originally Posted by Basilissa

I agree, we're not exclusive at all. Even tin tithers have their place in Church. Of course, we do not serve liberals nor homosexuals, but that's our God given (and Trump approved) right.

So true, Sister Basilissa. I have read thousands of posts here from LBC True Christians. We regularly point out the sins of those who come here. But, we always point them toward improvement, reading the Bible for example.

The number of souls we have saved is astounding. Keep up the good work everyone.

[Mary Etheldreda]

Brother Larry, your friends say "exclusionary" as if it were a bad thing! They will know one day, if not today then in the hereafter (Philippians 2:10-11) that Jesus is very exclusionary! Why, He only calls the best of the best! This is why He has deemed from the very beginning that He will not suffer the blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed. He will tolerate no man who has a broken foot or hand, or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defec. God is just as repulsed as any man of festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle (Leviticus 21:18-20). God hates cripples, and so does Pastor Zeke! And rightfully so!

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Originally Posted by Mary Etheldreda

God is just as repulsed as any man of festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle (Leviticus 21:18-20).

Or boils, Sister - sometimes tactfully referred to as the botch. Don't forget boils.

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Originally Posted by BrotherLarry

One of the complaints I have encountered ... is that we exclude so many from fellowship.

It is not that we exclude them – they exclude themselves.

Some are excluded by God, e.g. gimps cannot pastors (Lev 21:21) but never pray to God to heal them, and while they refuse to do this, we should shun them and their applications for membership of the congregation. It is well known that gimps are a public danger to the unborn child. A woman with child, may see such a creature and the poor child, when born, will this become a gimp himself (Ge 30:27 – 40).

Now it was said that this should not mean that Landover should not employ them as menials but, at Landover, our policy is that there is God in us all and even the pool-cleaners might see a deceptive pathway to being a pastor, and here it is in all our interests to prevent their ultimate and inevitable disappointment. Others choose to exclude themselves: Atheists (Heb:11:6); Catholics (Ex:20:4); democrats (Isa:26:11); Abominations (various verses), etc.

The wealth and fellowship that God gives us is shared generously among the Godly – not among the heathen who refuses to accept Jesus (Lu 9:5).