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7: The Church Trimester 3 (Part Two): Can We Find a Bible-Believing, Bible-Teaching, Bible-Living Church Today?

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The Lion Is In The Way     In Chapter 4 of THE LION IS IN THE WAY!: A Message to the Naked Church , Rev. Anyamesem shares the heart-breaking fourth and final revelation of the oracle: On my way to the house, behold, I looked and saw a lady walking toward me . . . . Her hair was braided, her face was covered with white powder, and she was dressed in a white piece of cloth that covered her from the breasts downwards.   She appeared to be my own matrimonial wife! A woman who was supposed to be a dynamic Christian turned out to be a fetish priestess.   It was the Lord’s intention to close the oracle by letting me be shocked and feel how it is for a beloved wife to turn adulterous . . . to feel how He feels for the wayward Church.   The Church is the wife of our Lord Jesus Christ (pp. 34-35). Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8).   This means that the Word of God is as active and alive today as it was when it was first spoken: “Let there be .

6: The Church Trimester 3 (Part One): Re-Birth Pangs

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The Lion Is In The Way From our last discussion : “The Church Trimester 2: The Functionality of the Church – part 3” , we focused on how the church’s vital organs work together to keep it alive describing its functionality like the end of a 2 nd Trimester marked by the assessment of how well the heart developed along with how well the lungs, kidneys and brain functioned.   We compared this trimester’s benchmarks to the Church’s vital organs, metaphorically, as its doctrine: The teaching or instruction is the heart ; its five-fold ministry is the lungs ; its ordinances of Baptism and Lord’s Supper are the kidneys ; and its Steps to Salvation and Stages of Sanctification is the brain . No institution is perfect on earth, especially the Church.   But it is in the Church where we get a second chance, new life, Re-Born to do the will of God and to be saved from sin and its wages.   In the Church, we receive the constant nourishment our souls need to overcome the influ