Chapter 15 New Book: Attending church. Joan Boney: Trying to find a church to attend

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In 1985, I moved to Clovis, NM (USA), where my mother lived.  My dad died and I knew she would need help so I moved there and built two apartments and later a house and moved my mother into the house with me until she died in 2002.

 

While in Clovis, I tried to find a church to attend:

 

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* Church on the Texico highway:

 

I spoke at this church several times when I was on radio between the years of 1980-1984.  

 

Then I moved to Clovis to help my mother after my father died.  

 

As I recall this, the man who was leader of this group contacted me when he learned I had moved to Clovis.  He was not really a pastor.  He was just the person in charge.  He asked me not to try to come to their church group.  He made the statement that he would not stand in the doorway to keep me out of their building but he wanted me to know I would not be welcome there.  They were followers of Kenneth Copeland at that time.

 

He didn't need to be concerned.  I've never tried to force my way into any church group and would not do such a thing.  

 

Several years later, 2017, God's message to me concerned the apostasy of the end times in the churches, and there was no way I would want to go near one of these apostate churches for I know Jesus will deal with them when HE returns and I just want to stay out of the way.

 

2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of HIS mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of HIS coming:

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* Potter's House:

 

This was a really strange situation.  

 

I spoke to the pastor about visiting his church group, not as a speaker, just as a visitor.  I was looking for a church to attend.

 

First the pastor agreed.

 

I bought an appropriate dress and was excited over getting to go to a church group.

 

On Friday before I was to visit on Sunday morning, this pastor called me and said:  "Concerning that thing about your visiting our church.  I've decided I don't want you to visit our church group."

 

I said, "Ok ..."   and hung up.

 

I was disappointed not to get to go to church.

 

A few days after this, some teenaged girls showed up at my front door.  They were carrying printed hand outs.  They said they were from "Potter's House" church.  They invited me to attend their church.

 

I told them their pastor called me asking me not to visit their church.

 

They didn't say a word.  They just turned and walked away.

 

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* Non-denominational church # 1:

 

I went to visit this church on a Wednesday night.  I was hoping to find a church to attend. 

 

The pastor was teaching about the woman taken in adultery.  John 8

 

Pastor said:  "And when she was brought to Jesus, she was naked from the waist up."

 

I was very shocked!  I knew this was not true.  I looked about the room and I didn't see anyone reach for a Bible to check this story.  

 

Several of the men had big lust-filled looking smiles on their faces.  

 

There were about 100 people in the congregation that night.

 

I called the pastor the next day.  I told him I had been in that meeting the previous night.  I asked him where it was in the Bible saying that woman taken in adultery was naked from the waist up as he had told the congregation.

 

He said, after a long pause:  "I can't remember where it is in the Bible."

 

I explained this was very important for me to know.  I asked him if he would please look this up and tell his secretary where this is in the Bible and have her call me and let me know.

 

Another long pause.

 

Then he shouted into the phone with great anger: "All right.  It's not in the Bible.  Where do you go to church."

 

I told him I was trying to find a church to attend but I wasn't going to attend a church where the pastor told stories that were not in the Bible and then tried to lie to Christians about that which he had done.

 

That ended the phone call.

 

I saw a man in the congregation who had done some construction work for me.  It turned out that he was one of the elders in that church group.  I called him and told him what had happened.  He seemed surprised.  But he apparently had not tried to check this story in the Bible.

 

John 8:1-11  Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.  And early in the morning HE came again into the temple, and all the people came unto HIM; and the the scribes and Pharisees brought unto HIM a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,

 

4 They say unto HIM, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest THOU?

 

6 This they said, tempting HIM, that they might have to accuse HIM. 

 

But Jesus stooped down, and with HIS finger wrote on the ground, as though HE heard them not.

 

7 So when they continued asking HIM, HE lifted up HIMSELF, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

 

8 And again HE stooped down, and wrote on the ground.

 

9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

 

10 When Jesus had lifted up HIMSELF, and saw none but the woman, HE said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?

 

11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

 

 

A few weeks later, I was visiting an Assembly of God church.  This elder was there that night.  We talked after the meeting.  He said he had left that other church group and was no longer an elder there.  He said he asked that pastor about what I said and the pastor said he just didn't know why he told that story to the people that night.

 

Later that pastor wanted to hire a homosexual to be their choir director.  And the former elder said he left that church for that reason.  

 

But that "elder" didn't leave when that pastor told the lie about the scriptures:  about the woman who was taken in adultery in John 8.

 

I was especially shocked that this pastor showed no shame over what he had done in lying to his congregation concerning John 8.

 

Later, in 2017,  God taught me about antichrist and the apostasy in the churches toward the end times.  Then I understood this was one of the antichrist, apostasy, churches and in the book of Revelation the people blasphemed God over the plagues but they did not repent.  

 

I've never seen any of these corrupt men who speak lies to their church groups repent.

 

Antichrist does not repent.

 

Revelation 9:20   And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

 

v. 21  Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

 

Revelation 16:8-9   And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.  And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give HIM glory.

 

vv. 10-11  And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,  And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

 

I don't believe these antichrist, apostasy church people can repent.  They made their choice against the scriptures.

 

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12   And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

I leave these apostate churches and their leaders alone.  Jesus will judge them when HE comes to gather the elect of God.

 

To continue reading Chapter 15, please click on following link telling about continuing to try to find a church to attend:   Chapter 15

 

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