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Date Posted: 08:31:02 11/02/02 Sat
Author: John M.
Subject: I challenge you to try ou t these 17 Points.
In reply to: BRI 's message, "A WARNING TO CHRISTIANS!!" on 20:54:29 06/27/02 Thu

Can you from this find the True Church of Christ as it was laid out in the days of Christ? For it was created by Christ himself, NOT MEN? The Bible even says this in Eph 4:11-14. I Challenge Every one here.

17 Points of the True Church

Several young men once searched together through the scriptures and listed 17 specific criteria for finding the "true" church. They went their separate ways, and years later they met and discovered that they had each independently found and joined the one church that met their criteria – I leave that search up to you to
find that one True Church.

1. Christ organized the Church (Ephesians 4:11-14)
2. The true church must bear the name of Jesus Christ (Ephesians 5:23)
3. The true church must have a foundation of Apostles and Prophets (Ephesians 2:19-20)
4. The true church must have the same organization as Christ's Church (Ephesians 4:11-14)
5. The true church must claim divine authority (Hebrews 4:4-10)
6. The true church must have no paid ministry (Acts 20:33-34; John 10:11-13)
7. The true church must baptize by immersion (Matthew 3:13-16)
8. The true church must bestow the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands (Acts 8:14-17)
9. The true church must practice divine healing (Mark 3:14-15)
10. The true church must teach that God and Jesus are separate and distinct individuals (John 17:11; 20:17)
11. The true church must teach that God and Jesus have bodies of flesh and bone (Luke 23:36-39; Acts 1:9-11; Hebrews 1:1-3)
12. The officers must be called by God (Hebrews 4:4; Exodus 28:1; 40:13-16)
13. The true church must claim revelation from God (Amos 3:7)
14. The true church must be a missionary church (Matthew 28:19-20)
15. The true church must be a restored church (Acts 3:19-20)
16. The true church must practice baptism for the dead (1 Corinthians 15:16&29)
17. "By their fruits ye shall know them." (Matthews 7:20)

Why are these things important? HEBREWS 13:8

Hint the only one and true Church that I found to match all 17 of these points was The LDS Church. Their web page is http://www.mormons.org/ and they can answer
all of your questions there. Here is there other web page http://www.lds.org/ I hope that you got out
of this what I got out of this.

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