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We ask that you honestly consider what you find at this site, to rightly divide scripture, by prayer and supplication find conviction according to the Holy Spirit, and to walk according to your God-given conscience.
If you are a Christian, you already belong to the same church to which all Christians belong, and there is nothing to join. We acknowledge that most Christians are in the denominations but we believe that division, disunity, and the sectarian spirit are not honoring to the Lord.
The Church (the ekklesia, the called-out ones), the spiritual Body of Christ, has solely been incorporated by the Lord, with His prescription for our conduct, and has been the same church beginning in Acts Chapter 2, and cannot be reformed nor restored because it has always been an absolute in spite of what men have tried to do to it. The Church is the sum total of all Christians; not a building, nor an organization registered on paper with Caesar. If you have the correct definition of the Church, then you can begin to understand this site.
Our prayer is that you will do what you have to do, wherever you are, to meet simply as Christians in the name of The Lord Jesus Christ, and to not compromise your spirit nor your flesh with the sectarian spirit.
We will share what we've learned and give some practical suggestions for you to properly gather as an assembly of non-compromised Christians, or perhaps help you to find fellowship with those who are like-minded, if you wish to keep in contact with us.
Since Satan has had about 2000 years to corrupt organized religion during the dispensation of Grace, there have been many man-made traditions and carry-overs from other religious practices that have been ignorantly accepted as "doctrine" by Christians today. Many sincere Christians have traditionally formulated doctrine according to who got to them first or from who got to them most recently. We will point out popular doctrinal errors that have compromised the efficacy of the Church. You should be able to rightly divide the Word of God, see for yourself, and make the clear truths of Scripture your own regarding doctrine.
Under Grace, the Lord trusts you with the liberty that God's people did not have under the Law of Moses; the Law having served it's purpose. Just like -- and forgive the worldly comparison; the genius of the American experiment is that, for the first time in human government, the people were trusted to govern themselves. God's Grace is truly liberating. In this Church Age Christ is our High Priest, God's love and Grace have drawn us to submit to Him, the Holy Spirit gives us the power and the conviction to instinctively do good works, and we each have our place in the Church today with instructions from the Lord and the Apostles.
"For by Grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2:8-9
We are not a part of a Reformation or Restoration Movement, nor Jehovah's Witnesses, nor Two by Twos, Open Church, Cell Church, nor Home Church Movement; as some people ask. We are in the Portland and Vancouver area and we are looking for fellowship with anyone in this area, or actually anywhere in the World, who can appreciate the material presented at this site.
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