Comments on: Dude, Where’s My Church? http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/06/dude-wheres-my-church.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Tue, 22 May 2012 03:53:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Robhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/06/dude-wheres-my-church.html#comment-4192 Rob Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:31:27 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/06/dude-wheres-my-church.html#comment-4192 Dan, Doesn't this: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/06/20060623-10.html "It is the policy of the United States to protect the rights of Americans to their private property, including by limiting the taking of private property by the Federal Government to situations in which the taking is for public use, with just compensation, and for the purpose of benefiting the general public and not merely for the purpose of advancing the economic interest of private parties to be given ownership or use of the property taken." Take some kind of precedence / overturning of Kelo. (I'm not American and don't know the legal system all that well over there - but my understanding is that it does) Dan,

Doesn’t this:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news.....23-10.html
“It is the policy of the United States to protect the rights of Americans to their private property, including by limiting the taking of private property by the Federal Government to situations in which the taking is for public use, with just compensation, and for the purpose of benefiting the general public and not merely for the purpose of advancing the economic interest of private parties to be given ownership or use of the property taken.”

Take some kind of precedence / overturning of Kelo. (I’m not American and don’t know the legal system all that well over there – but my understanding is that it does)

]]> By: john umlandhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/06/dude-wheres-my-church.html#comment-4191 john umland Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:30:12 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/06/dude-wheres-my-church.html#comment-4191 i think a church with a commitment to small groups is prepared to care for itself if the central meeting place was closed. but, if one church closed and all the others stayed open, i'm sure the people would gladly receive the opportunity to church shop and see the other ways God's people fellowship together. home groups prepare people for "one another" ministry. if God allowed the state to close all the churches, it wouldn't be the first time. it worked pretty good when the heat turned up in Jerusalem in Acts. it has worked very well in China. God is still on his throne and takes care of his bride. God is good jpu i think a church with a commitment to small groups is prepared to care for itself if the central meeting place was closed. but, if one church closed and all the others stayed open, i’m sure the people would gladly receive the opportunity to church shop and see the other ways God’s people fellowship together.
home groups prepare people for “one another” ministry. if God allowed the state to close all the churches, it wouldn’t be the first time. it worked pretty good when the heat turned up in Jerusalem in Acts. it has worked very well in China. God is still on his throne and takes care of his bride.
God is good
jpu

]]> By: john umlandhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/06/dude-wheres-my-church.html#comment-4190 john umland Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:24:54 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/06/dude-wheres-my-church.html#comment-4190 alot of those big beautiful buildings are just that and not where God is in the midst. a most extreme example is the Hagia Sophia in Turkey which went from a beautiful basilica to the glory or God to a beautiful mosque to the glory of allah. on a small scale a pretty white church with a tall steeple in my home town is now a mosque also. church is people not buildings. alot of those big beautiful buildings are just that and not where God is in the midst. a most extreme example is the Hagia Sophia in Turkey which went from a beautiful basilica to the glory or God to a beautiful mosque to the glory of allah.
on a small scale a pretty white church with a tall steeple in my home town is now a mosque also.
church is people not buildings.

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