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Old 04-08-2019, 3:05 PM
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I left my church for one reason. Money. The first few years were great! About 4 months before I left it became a money drive. You have to donate more $, God would want you to give more money ect. I have been on the search for a smaller church setting, but just not having any luck lately.
What area of Ca are you in?
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Old 04-08-2019, 3:40 PM
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Southern, Rancho Cucamonga.
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Old 04-08-2019, 3:44 PM
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Southern, Rancho Cucamonga.
I don't have anything to suggest there! i'll be praying for you!

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I've been doing a little looking around for a new church to go to since I've given up mine. Since I've been raised with the "7th Day Sabbath" background, I've been considering groups that meet on Saturday.
So far, two have been recommended. A Messionic Synagogue and the United Church of God. Both have other issues that scare me off. I have a friend who goes to a Messionic Synagogue, and her constant referencing keeping the Laws and Feast Days tends to scare me away. As does the United Church of God wanting to keep the Feast Days.
So, I'm still looking.
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I've been doing a little looking around for a new church to go to since I've given up mine. Since I've been raised with the "7th Day Sabbath" background, I've been considering groups that meet on Saturday.
So far, two have been recommended. A Messionic Synagogue and the United Church of God. Both have other issues that scare me off. I have a friend who goes to a Messionic Synagogue, and her constant referencing keeping the Laws and Feast Days tends to scare me away. As does the United Church of God wanting to keep the Feast Days.
So, I'm still looking.
You should be concerned. As Paul wrote to the Colossians:

Col2:16 Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day— 17 things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ. 18 Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind, 19 and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God. 20 If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, 21 “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!” 22 (which all refer to things destined to perish with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men? 23 These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.

Legalism, mysticism, and asceticism!

Praying for you too. We all need to be in a good church.

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Southern, Rancho Cucamonga.


I know of a nice smaller congregation near you if you would like


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That would be great wasr10! Been looking for a nice smaller church.

Thank you for the prayers billvau!
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That would be great wasr10! Been looking for a nice smaller church.

Thank you for the prayers billvau!


Check out

Inland Valley church of Christ
1550 N Palmetto Ave
Ontario, CA 91762
(909) 391- 3426

I would call first for meeting times, I haven’t had contact with them in a couple years. They were a great group of Christians last I spoke with them.





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Old 04-08-2019, 6:31 PM
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Thank you wasr10, will give them a call.
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Yes it is. We're suppose to rebuke false teachings.
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My wife was born into our church, and subsequently I was brought in when I started dating her. It's a large-ish asian church with branches throughout Asia and the US. My biggest issue is that they claim only they have the truth- and anyone who disagrees with them, including other Christian denominations, is wrong.

I've contemplated finding a church that better suits us, but there has been a lot of internal division (pretty much regarding this exact matter) and I'd like to see how it plays out.
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I love it when a blind person says there is no true sun or moon in the sky because they can’t find them. There are people who say they have seen the sun and moon.
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When someone says Christ didn’t create his own church but they are only man made. Have they not read the New Testiment where Christ called and set apart his Apostles and formed the true Church Of Christ.

I’m sorry you have not found the True Church Of Christ but it exists on the earth today. I have found it.
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I think it would take a lot or a very specific thing to leave. I think people
Leave too fast these days and part of it is staying through the difficulty and using that as a testimony.
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I think it would take a lot or a very specific thing to leave. I think people
Leave too fast these days and part of it is staying through the difficulty and using that as a testimony.
Yet, you haven't answered the OP.
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