When one of the members of the strivers\u2019 Church ever insults the Spirit of grace (Hebrews 10:29), this causes damages to her life and her testimony. I am speaking of all the committed people, laymen, monks, deacons, priests, and bishops! Yesterday, I read news on an electronic media outlet about two monks, from an independent Orthodox church, whose life itself is a bane, including homosexuality and embezzlement\u2026! Why do you cause your sins to be attributed to a church of which you had received that she was redeemed with the precious blood (of Christ) (1 Peter 1:18-19)? You know Jesus' words about offenses. No image of the punishment of the person by whom the offense comes is as terrifying as the millstone (Matthew 18:6)! Throughout history, there have been great Christians who were led to abandon their church due to its members\u2019 sins. This abandonment is lamentable, along with its causes. Paul once said: \u201cPut away from yourselves the evil person\u201d (1 Corinthians 5:13). There are members in the Church who have not yet received the Gospel of Christ. This Good News, accepted, is the path to the testimony of freedom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When one of the members of the strivers\u2019 Church ever insults the Spirit of grace (Hebrews 10:29), this causes damages to her life and her testimony. I am speaking of all the committed people, laymen, monks, deacons, priests, and bishops! Yesterday, I read news on an electronic media outlet about two monks, from an independent ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[1351,1353,447,413,1352],"class_list":["post-9300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-christian-testimony","tag-church-scandals","tag-orthodox-church","tag-repentance","tag-spiritual-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}