Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Big Church Big Errors, Little Church Little Errors?

Survey Reveals Where Small, Large Church Attendees Diverge in Faith

By Audrey Barrick

Christian Post Reporter

Mon, Aug. 10 2009 03:33 PM EDT

People who attend larger churches are more likely than attendees of smaller ones to believe the Bible is totally accurate in all the principles it teaches, a new survey reveals.

Survey Examines America's Megachurchgoers

Three out of four attendees of churches with 1,000 or more adults hold that belief compared to three out of five attendees of churches with an average attendance of 100 or less, The Barna Group reported.

The new survey, based on interviews with more than 3,000 adults, shows statistically significant differences in the beliefs and behaviors of small church attendees versus that of larger church-goers.

Sixty-one percent of those who attend churches with at least 1,000 adults say they have a personal responsibility to tell others about their beliefs. Less than half (41 percent) of adults from small congregations agree.

Fifty-five percent of larger church attendees believe a good person cannot earn a place in Heaven while only 33 percent of small church-goers say so.

Notably, a quarter of those who attend churches with 1,000 or more adults identify themselves as evangelical Christian. Only 9 percent of attendees from churches with 100 or less say they are evangelicals, which The Barna Group defines as meeting the born again criteria plus seven other conditions (including saying their faith is very important in their life today and believing that Satan exists).

The Barna report notes that the study did not examine the point in life or the church at which a particular theological perspective was embraced by respondents. Thus, the research results do not mean that larger churches are more likely to provide congregants with conservative biblical views.

In other findings, adults who attend larger churches are more likely to be active in such activities as going to church and reading the Bible than those of small churches.

Young adults are somewhat more likely to flock to the larger churches than the small congregations.

Churches with 1,000 or more adults only draw about nine percent of adults who frequent a Protestant church. Meanwhile, 41 percent of adults who attend a Protestant church associate with a congregation of 100 or fewer adults.

Prophecies of the Messiah in the Hebrew Bible~Jews For Jesus

Prophecies of the Messiah in the Hebrew Bible

The (Jewish) writers of the New Testament asserted that the Old Testament spoke of a coming Messiah and quoted from it extensively to prove their point. Even Jesus himself - whom many Jewish people will declare to be a good rabbi and teacher - said to those who sat under his teaching, "How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?" And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself. " (Luke 24:25-27)

Since the first century, the issue of "messianic prophecy" has been a hot-button topic. Does Isaiah 53 speak of Israel, or of a Messiah? Did Isaiah really talk about a virgin giving birth? Did King David describe someone who would be "pierced" in Psalm 22? Or did the Christians misunderstand what the Hebrew Bible said, or even worse - did they deliberately distort things, or arrange events so that Jesus appeared to fulfill the prophecies?

(False Prophecy)Oil Supplies Are Running Out Fast

DUCK
DUCK

Soup?

Since every few months we are running out of OIL before they say "We Found More Oil" or "INVEST IN ISRAELI OIL", if you are quakers enough to believe this then call me a Chicken and serve me at Kentucky Fried....,

Michael James Stone

(you gotta be kidding me.........)

Oil Supplies Are Running Out Fast

By Jimmy DeYoung

According to a leading energy economist, the world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because most of the major oil fields in the world have passed their peak production.

Dr. Fatih Birol, the chief economist at the International Energy Agency in Paris, says most governments are oblivious to the fact that the oil on which modern civilization depends is running out faster than previously predicted and that global production is likely to peak in ten years, at least a decade before most governments had predicted.

Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News

With the oil supplies of this world running out faster than what was previously thought, the stage is being set for the Middle East to move ahead quicker with its last days plan for this world which is found in Bible prophecy.

The discover of oil in the early 1900's in the Middle East has played a key role in the policies and politics of both the Arab and Moslem world. The major suppliers of oil to the world, both the West and the far East, are the Middle Eastern states that have become rich and powerful because of this ever increasing need for oil products. With the report that these oil supplies are now running out, there is a very interesting development taking place in the Middle East.

Iraq which has a vast amount of oil under their surface has only extracted two percent of their total oil resource. As the other oil producing nations run out of oil, Iraq will become the greatest source for oil and thus they could well become the richest nation in the world, which fits a prophetic scenario for the end times. Iraq, Biblical Babylon, will be the headquarters for a one-world economic power that will be led by the Antichrist, Revelation 18.

This passage in Revelation reveals the economic power base will come into existence three and a half years before the return of Jesus Christ. The Messiah will return to destroy Babylon, modern day Iraq, as foretold in Bible prophecy, Isaiah 13-14, Jeremiah 50-51 and Revelation 16.

This report of oil running out faster than previously thought does indeed set the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.

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