Isn't it amazing to see the depths to which we believers in Christ have sunk. What am I talking about? Well the Mormons had an add campaign a couple of years ago declaring themselves Mormon. Remember those "I am Mormon" commercials. Now we Catholics are attempting a new evangelization to bring home our lost fellow Catholics. The main line Protestant churches are on a decline because they tend to follow secular desires and approve of homosexual marriage and allow homosexuals to preach to themselves. Will acceptance of abortion be next? These non- denominational churches or so called evangelical, mega churches are siphoning off the disenfranchised, but they will meet with their demise. Most of these preacher are in the game for the wrong reasons. They first desire to build themselves a nice retirement nest egg and then they retire on the congregation money traveling around the world pretending to establish churches around the world. Have you ever read the letters of Saint Ignatius of Antioch to the various churches in Asia as he was being carted to Rome in chains for martyrdom around the year 110 A.D.?
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians
" Keep yourselves from those evil plants which Jesus Christ does not tend, because they are not
the planting of the Father. Not that I have found any division among you, but exceeding purity. For as many as are of God and of Jesus Christ are also with the bishop. And as many as shall, in the exercise of repentance, (those that sacrifice to idols) return into the unity of the Church, these, too, shall belong to God, that they may live according to Jesus Christ. Do not err, my brethren. If any man follows him that makes a schism . Take heed, then, to have but one Eucharist. For there is one flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ, and one cup to [show forth] the unity of His blood; one altar; as there is one bishop, along with the presbytery and deacons, my fellow-servants: that so, whatsoever you do, you may do it according to [the will of] God. in the Church, he shall not inherit the kingdom of God. If any one walks according to a strange opinion, he agrees not with the passion [of Christ.]... For though some would have deceived me according to the flesh, yet the Spirit, as being from God, is not deceived. For it knows both whence it comes and whither it goes, John 3:8 and detects the secrets [of the heart]. For, when I was among you, I cried, I spoke with a loud voice: Give heed to the bishop, and to the presbytery and deacons. Now, some suspected me of having spoken thus, as knowing beforehand the division caused by some among you. But He is my witness, for whose sake I am in bonds, that I got no intelligence from any man. But the Spirit proclaimed these words: Do nothing without the bishop; keep your bodies as the temples of God; love unity; avoid divisions; be the followers of Jesus Christ, even as He is of His Father."
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians
" Keep yourselves from those evil plants which Jesus Christ does not tend, because they are not
the planting of the Father. Not that I have found any division among you, but exceeding purity. For as many as are of God and of Jesus Christ are also with the bishop. And as many as shall, in the exercise of repentance, (those that sacrifice to idols) return into the unity of the Church, these, too, shall belong to God, that they may live according to Jesus Christ. Do not err, my brethren. If any man follows him that makes a schism . Take heed, then, to have but one Eucharist. For there is one flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ, and one cup to [show forth] the unity of His blood; one altar; as there is one bishop, along with the presbytery and deacons, my fellow-servants: that so, whatsoever you do, you may do it according to [the will of] God. in the Church, he shall not inherit the kingdom of God. If any one walks according to a strange opinion, he agrees not with the passion [of Christ.]... For though some would have deceived me according to the flesh, yet the Spirit, as being from God, is not deceived. For it knows both whence it comes and whither it goes, John 3:8 and detects the secrets [of the heart]. For, when I was among you, I cried, I spoke with a loud voice: Give heed to the bishop, and to the presbytery and deacons. Now, some suspected me of having spoken thus, as knowing beforehand the division caused by some among you. But He is my witness, for whose sake I am in bonds, that I got no intelligence from any man. But the Spirit proclaimed these words: Do nothing without the bishop; keep your bodies as the temples of God; love unity; avoid divisions; be the followers of Jesus Christ, even as He is of His Father."
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