[Faith-talk] Fwd: Why go to church....

[Devin Prater]

The message was good, but the spiritual blackmail to share the post or be the Devils pawn really put me off. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 9, 2016, at 11:36 PM, Poppa Bear via Faith-talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Thanks for the share Sister. 
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> From: Faith-talk [mailto:faith-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ericka
> via Faith-talk
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 7:07 PM
> To: Faith-talk Beth Taurasi via
> Cc: Ericka
> Subject: [Faith-talk] Fwd: Why go to church....
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> Thought most of you would appreciate this. It's Christian oriented but I
> think you will appreciate it too Abdullah.
> 
> Ericka Short
> "What is right is not always popular; what is popular is not always right."
> 
> from my iPhone
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> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: WILLIAM BETHKE <wlbjcb at sbcglobal.net>
>> Date: March 9, 2016 at 9:00:26 PM CST
>> To: "carlhpfeiffer at gmail.com" <carlhpfeiffer at gmail.com>, David 
>> Lindorff <drlindorff at charter.net>, Lex Liberatore 
>> <lliberatore at lakeedge.org>, "W.j. Molis" <wmolis2 at yahoo.com>, Pat 
>> McGuire <patmc1118 at aol.com>, Craig Aswegan <dr.oz at charter.net>, Ericka 
>> Short <dotwriter1 at gmail.com>, Jessie Gwynne <jessiegwynne at gmail.com>, 
>> "Patmc1118 at aol.com" <Patmc1118 at aol.com>, Ralph & Karen Holmes 
>> <riholmes at charter.net>
>> Subject: Fw: Why go to church....
>> Reply-To: WILLIAM BETHKE <wlbjcb at sbcglobal.net>
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>> ----- Forwarded Message -----
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>> Subject: Why go to church....
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>> If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this!
>> If you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it.
>> If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope!
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>> A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained
> that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday.
>> He wrote: "I've gone for 30 years now, and in that time I have heard 
>> something like 3,000 sermons, but for the life of me, I can't remember a
> single one of them.  So, I think I'm wasting my time, the preachers and
> priests are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all".
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>> This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column. 
>> Much to the delight of the editor, it went on for weeks until someone
> wrote this clincher:
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>> "I've been married for 30 years now.  In that time my wife has cooked 
>> some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire
> menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this: They all nourished
> me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work.
>> If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead 
>> today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be
> spiritually dead today!"
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>> When you are DOWN to nothing, God is UP to something!
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>> Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible & receives the
> impossible!
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>> Thank God for our physical and our spiritual nourishment!
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>> IF YOU CANNOT SEE GOD IN ALL .... YOU CANNOT SEE GOD AT ALL !
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>> B. I. B. L. E. simply means: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth!
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>> When you are about to forward this to others, the devil will discourage
> you.
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>> So go on! Forward this to people who are DEAR to you and TRUST GOD.
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