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crystalrainfall
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are you asking in the case of an Adventist church renting a church from a Sunday church?
crystalrainfall
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I think it might be okay, because Jesus said, "For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them." (Matthew 18:20). People are not always able to meet in the perfect places to be close to God, but He is everywhere a sincere believer (or two) are. Remember Daniel and his friends in Babylon? They were in the most difficult of places to serve God, but He blessed them tremendously. And God is with the Sunday keeping congregation when they seek Him with all their heart. They do not yet know all the knowledge we do, but they may come to know in time.
I equally agree with you sir.
But the argument with some of my members are saying the altar of God is different.
Take for example, Abraham, where ever he went he built altars for his service, same as Jacob.
I feel once the altar is consecrated and ordained for service it's okay but there contrary school of thought.
The Sunday worshipper will consecrate there altar and then we will come and consecrate it again, if you get my drift?
But the argument with some of my members are saying the altar of God is different.
Take for example, Abraham, where ever he went he built altars for his service, same as Jacob.
I feel once the altar is consecrated and ordained for service it's okay but there contrary school of thought.
The Sunday worshipper will consecrate there altar and then we will come and consecrate it again, if you get my drift?
crystalrainfall
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You are working off the premise that the altar is somehow defiled because it is used in a Sunday church. The same God manifests Himself in the Sunday church, He is the same God we worship. His Holy Spirit is active in the Sunday churches too, and He blesses His children there. The only difference between them and us is that we have more knowledge. Other than that, our God is the exact same. Jesus said, "And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd." (John 10:16). "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me." (John 10:27). "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws them" (John 6:44). The Bible tells us the Spirit "will guide you into all truth" (John 16:13), and perhaps God will lead them into knowledge of the Sabbath in the future. The soul who seeks God in sincerity will not be turned away from God's Spirit, for we are told: "love covers all sins" (Proverbs 10:12). We are also told "he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins" (James 5:19). Maybe it is your calling to tell the Sunday church congregation the leader about the Sabbath. And it will take time for them to ponder the issue before they take a stand for the truth.
rob
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Greetings friends, listening to you both is very interesting.
I just come back from visiting an old church assembly, and they use a Sunday keeping church, where the altar faces due East, instead of due West.
Does it matter? Hmm? I think it does but the Lord often overlooks ignorance with sin. If I was attending a rented church, I would move or make our own altars for our own assembly and turn the congregation around to have their back to the East and face the West as the Bible teaches. Nearly every modern SDA altar faces the east, how you noticed, and they also go up on steps, not a ramp as the Bible teaches. So why the interest in such topics now? Why didn't the pioneers know? Some older churches are built correctly and face due West. Without a raised platform etc.
Shalom
I just come back from visiting an old church assembly, and they use a Sunday keeping church, where the altar faces due East, instead of due West.
Does it matter? Hmm? I think it does but the Lord often overlooks ignorance with sin. If I was attending a rented church, I would move or make our own altars for our own assembly and turn the congregation around to have their back to the East and face the West as the Bible teaches. Nearly every modern SDA altar faces the east, how you noticed, and they also go up on steps, not a ramp as the Bible teaches. So why the interest in such topics now? Why didn't the pioneers know? Some older churches are built correctly and face due West. Without a raised platform etc.
Shalom