CUMULUS
LAPIDUM "CUMULUS
LAPIDUM" is Latin for Stone Pile "Do
we still believe the local church is the hope of the world?"
Bill Hybels
You
see, many Christians might look at that question and not realize theyve been
subjected to a dialectic question designed to alter their spiritual priorities
and get them onboard an alternative agenda. This is what trained facilitators
do under the radar in many churches today. But
I would ask: Is that where your hope lies in the local church? Do you believe
your church can save the world? Did
it save you? There
are a lot of misguided Christians today who have a misplaced faith and hope in
their church. This makes them easy targets for church growth consultants who know
all too well how to play on the egos, ambitions and insecurities of both laymen
and staff wanting their church to be bigger and better than the one across town. But
the Church cannot save. The Church is the saved.
Paul
Proctor _____________________ This
section of the journal consists of examples
to man's clever and perverse
way of raising monuments to himself in the form of piles of stone. These
piles he then calls "church." |
Pagan
religions have always been associated with their temples and buildings. Got allowed
Israel to have a tabernacle, and later, a temple. But the Church Age has been
distinguished from the Age of Law, among other distinctions, as the age when God
dwells in the believer, not a building. As we progress through the Laodicean Age
of Church history, as many as 95% of all Christians identify themselves with buildings.
It is ironic that some Baptists call their buildings "Temple Baptist Church".
The emphasis
of the building, the stone house, the cathedral is paramount to modern Christians
of all denominations. The Body of Christ is officially the people, but in fact,
the edifice, the gathering place, is ornamented far more than the Gospel preached
(IF it is preached). Here
is a religion centered on a building. How
is your pride for your glorious building any different than Islam's pride over
the Kaaba? Are YOU obsessed with your building, your "church"? If so,
you are blaspheming God who taught us: Mark
14:58 (KJV) We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands,
and within three days I will build another made without hands. 2
Corinthians 4:6 (KJV) For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness,
hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of
God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels,
that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. Acts
20:18 (KJV) And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the
first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all
seasons,
19 Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears,
and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
20 And
how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and
have taught you publickly, and from house to house,
21 Testifying both to
the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our
Lord Jesus Christ.
The
early Church met in homes. The end times Church will return to homes, as is happening
right now all over the world. The virgins without oil in their lamps, the ones
left behind at the Rapture of the Church, will be meeting in big beautiful pagan
temples. Are YOU one of them? |
The
Anabaptists of the days of Menno Simons, who were attacked on two fronts--
by the Roman Whore and by the Reformers, took an oath of dedication.
In this
oath, they vowed, "in
kam steinhaufen mer ze geen."--
Never
to enter a house of stone. It
is a landmark of Ladicean peril that about 95% of all Baptist pastors CRAVE a
house of stone. It
is the end of the age for sure, for the Lord's Church is right back where it started--
In the homes of the people. Meanwhile;
"Step right up to the altar and give the deacon your faith promise brother.
We want to build a stone pile next year with a 200 foot platform and a
$3,000,000 chandelier. Praise God, are we not the greatest?"
TAKE THE GRAND TOUR OF
STONE PILES
OF THE WORLD:
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of these links is to show the pile of stone. Try not to
get lost in each
site-- Keep moving to get the point.
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SPECIAL
FEATURE
PENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
Piled Higher and Deeper
PCC
is a stone and steel pile as pagan as St. Peter's Basilica
http://www.pcci.edu/CampusChurch/Default.html
"....a world class building" RIGHT-- Very worldly!
Queen Elizabeth,
eat your heart out.
http://www.pcci.edu/CampusVirtualTour/360Pictures/dhainside.html
I have
been told the chandelier in the atrium cost $3 million
http://www.pcci.edu/CampusVirtualTour/360Pictures/crownectratrium.html Much
of this landmark facility is a monument to the living. It is a wicked thing that
so many Baptists allow men around them to memorialize them before they die. What
is even more grievous is to see a woman enshrined before she passes on into the
Glory (IF that is her destiny). This raises said woman above the men who exalt
her, which violates the Apostle Paul's teaching. We are reminded of Mother Teresa
and the Hindu Yoginis. The
30 foot chandelier cost them 3 million dollars.
When we left Kenya in 1976,
a bush church could be built for $2500
So, with inflation, we must figure
the same bush church would cost $5000. So, if they had deferred cost of the chandelier
they would have been able to build 600 churches in the poor nations of the world.
You folks
at PCC, look up at that deco rubbish next time you enter the
temple of Mulloch,
and meditate........ 600 local church houses!
This
building will be a great headquarters for Antichrist's man in the USA.
Or,
it will be a rock concert stadium. You saints at PCC have built your buildings
for Satan to use very shortly. May God send you a 300 mile per hour hurricane,
or an 8 point earthquake. May
I say this-- PCC's Crown Center looks like an outhouse compared
to the mansion
in heaven which Jesus is preparing for me.
Thus, I will just be content with
our little church fellowship in the low income end of Knoxville, TN. It
is urgent to understand what these monolithic stone piles do.....
As the Vatican
presents a massive and pontifical front behind which
pedophiles and homos
hide and play.... Even so, this Crown Center is a glittering and mind numbing
front behind which the leaders may indulge
in virtually any vice and appetite
without being examined. Asking
questions of Protestant Poplettes is tantamount
to blasphemy. It will
soon be a landmark year in Pensacola, for wicked Baptists,
as the rats
run and the truth comes forth. From
a carpenter I know very well, the following... Luke
12:15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's
life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Update:
Summer of 2003: Bible believers run for cover.
We are told that "Dell
Johnson, Dean of the Seminary at PCC, left at the end of the semester, and three
others went with him. The seminary has lost half the staff it had at the beginning
of the semester. There is the possibility that one or two more might still leave.
As it is, they only have ONE earned doctor of theology still on staff. At least
three of the pastors of the Campus Church are going. Jim Schettler, the main pastor,
and the face of the Rejoice Broadcast Network, is also strongly rumored
to be leaving." A war over doctrine is rumored to be brewing, and the Popess
is prevailing. Why
are we featuring PCC?
Answer: Virtually no Fundamental Baptist organization
has ever surpassed the grandiose and gaudy abuse of the giving of God's people
like this group. The whole thing smells of Post-Millennial notions that the Lord's
Church is to build a physical kingdom on earth. The vision of these piles of stone
obliterate the simple Christlike and Pauline model of the local church presented
in the book of Acts and over the past 1700 years, and in a thousand little places
back up country roads in Kansas, Kenya, and Katmandu. This grand display in Pensacola
is wicked in the extreme, for it sidelines the giving resources of God's people
into monuments and away from soul winning and church planting.
Revelation
18:9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously
with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke
of her burning,
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying,
Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy
judgment come.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over
her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: James
4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning,
and your joy to heaviness.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord,
and he shall lift you up.
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And,
a good sport
http://www.pcci.edu/CampusLife/Athletics/SportsCenter.html Who
would not be spiritual in such a glamorous
palace of grandeur?
Entrance
into the Bascilica
Platform
of the temple The
power and the glory, yes, but whose?
We have a report that a memorial to "great
preachers"
is planned, and Jack Hyles, Hindu
vegetarian, Lester Roloff, Bible mutilators Curtis Hutson
and John R. Rice, and other men who crave glory, will be included. Why
do Fundamental Baptists lust for, and pass around, the glory instead of giving
it to Jesus? Let us hear no more lies about Crown being KJV Only! http://www.templebaptistchurch.com/
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| Nature
of the Church
Cumulus
Lapidum (Stone Pile) Comments | |
New
Testament
Apostle's Doctrine |
"Mother
Church" The Whore
Constantine, Augustine, Popes |
Protestant
Reformation
Luther, Calvin, Zwingli |
Anabaptists
Menno Simons, Roger Williams |
| Question:
Who is the church? |
Question:
What
is the true church? |
Question:
Where
is the true church? |
Question:
Again,
Who is the true church? |
| Pilgrimage
images:
The Way
Sojourners
The poor New
Order images:
Reign of God
New creation
New humanity Peoplehood
images:
People of God
Family and home
based physical facility
ONLY
Holy nation
Flock
Royal priesthood of all followers of Christ Transformation
images:
Salt, light, city
Spiritual house
Gospel preaching by all followers Song
of the Church |
One
Holy
Catholic
Apostolic
Church The
cathedral, or stone pile, is
the heart of the church.
Every image, brick,
and icon
is sacred, while the average
follower is incidental and only
invited to mumble a handful of
words on cue. Bells and
chanting
are the guide to
response, not the heart of
the follower under the leading
of the Holy Spirit. The
Church is a Mother,
NOT a body of believers. Thus,
Mother Church is holy,
so the follower can live like the
devil. Sin is
NEVER mastered.
There is no need for anything
like zeal to be found in
the heart
of the follower.
Just hit the kneelers on cue.
The
hierarchy rules
every aspect of the
follower's life. Nothing
is certain, and the
follower is a full participant
in saving his own
soul
since Jesus could not finish
the work on the Cross. This
also
results in full treasuries,
for the follower must buy off
God by filling
the hands of the
Pope and his priests with cash. The
higher up the
hierarchy, the more
powerful and immune
the minister
is from
examination. Thus, Mother is
very hard on little boys
and
virgin
girls.
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The
Word is preached while tradition was still very much
present, though not
as final. The
sacraments are administered with
less superstition.
Houses
of stone are not the church
per se, but the body of Christ dare
not
meet in smaller places for fear
of falling into private religion,
which
is cursed and denies holy
cow universality. True worship can
only be
achieved by an "Order of
Worship" in the rear of the hymn
book. Only the bells are missing. The
hierarchy is more based in
zeal than in "Mother." Separation
from sin has never
been very important. God is stuck
with us, according
to Calvin and
Luther. Church
discipline is enforced by
the sword of the burgermeister
(1500) and
the church fathers and
consistory (now). Zero
tolerance for those who
descent or refuse to live by the
creed. Scholarship
is the measure
of all things. Salvation
is not a choice --
It is inherited and administered as
a rite of passage. Thus,
holy living is optional. Cigars
and whiskey are often on the
church
budget. "Given to
hospitality" means a good variety
of booze
on a shelf out of reach of
the children. This
was vastly a great
improvement over the Whore of
Rome, but the Reformers
never
finished the job in 500 years and
never will. True reformation
does
NOT include revival of the
followers.
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Peter Riedeman: The
church is a lantern of righteousness in which the
light of grace is held
before
the world, that people may
also learn to see and know
the
way of life. The
Church meets in homes. weaver's caves, and barns,
and vows never to enter
a
"stone house." Worship is a
product of the heart, and not
reaching the goal of true
worship will result in a week
of "revival
meetings." Those
who are truly regenerate
will leave their sin, and when
they backslide,
they are
disciplined briskly in love. Menno
Simons,
True Signs of the Church: 1.
Pure doctrine from God's Word alone. 2.
Scriptural and symbolic use of only two ordinances of baptism and the Lord's Supper. 3.
Obedience to the Word by acts of change in daily life. 4.
Unfeigned brotherly love while allowing the unconverted to reject the Gospel without
retaliation by the saints. 5.
Bold confession of God in Christ in public. 6.
Oppression and tribulation are accepted for the sake of the Word and the Gospel. 7.
Separation of the true Body of Christ from Caesar's authority and participation.
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Now,
here in closing....
is a real church--
Are they in a Cumulus Lapidum (pile of stone)?
You
better believe it.
Are they the real Church?
Yes, at least a small part
of it.
http://www.kjv1611.org/01-oct-pdf.pdf
Do we like the pastor?
Not too much at times.
Do we like the
setting?
No!
Do we want to pastor this church?
Not if the Lord doesn't
tell us to.
Do we rejoice in the Lord's Church here?
Absolutely, my friend,
and in every small gathering of the saints in any home,
prison, break room,
and cafe where two or three gather together in the
Name of the Lord Jesus
Christ. THE
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST IS PEOPLE, NOT JUNK PILES OF ROCKS. Here
is proof you can have a site built church without a pile of stone No
pile of stone here Baptist
House Church Down Under A
bit Arminian, But no Stone Pile!
Small
House Church Music Maudy
is over in the corner telling little Bobby how they used to sing to the old pump
organ when they had Sunday meetings at the Van County School House in Oklahoma.
Brother Fred is checking his notes for the Bible lesson later. Mary and Monica
are in the kitchen getting the coffee maker ready to turn on as soon as the message
is over. Last Sunday they turned it on too soon and drove everyone crazy with
the aroma. Jack says he actually made something for the church dinner later, and
everyone is amazed the old bachelor even tried. We better eat a little so as not
to hurt his feelings. Brother Miller made one of his famous Chocolate cakes with
mayonnaise in it. Later, we will be going home with the Hendrys to watch a video
of the Marshall family singing. Brother Bill just put another log on the fire.
It has been three months now since we escaped from the stone pile church we were
going to, and we feel so much at home-- Just like the Apostle Paul said we would.
Acts 20:18 And when they were come to him, he said
unto them, Ye know,
from the first day that I came into Asia, after what
manner I have been with you at all seasons,
19 Serving the Lord with all
humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations,
which befell me by
the lying in wait of the Jews:
20 And how I kept back nothing that was profitable
unto you, but have shewed you,
and have taught you publickly, and from house
to house,
Conclusion:
Are you
trapped in a Cumulus Lapidum-- A Stone Pile? Why
not find an exit, and head for a local house church in your area? Better
yet, START a House Church Youself as the Lord may so lead.
Acts
2:46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread
from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added
to the church daily such as should be saved.
Acts 5:42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach
and preach Jesus Christ.
Acts 16:32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were
in his house.
Philemon 1:2 And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to
the church in thy house:
Romans 16:5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved
Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.
1 Corinthians 16:19 Ά The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute
you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.
Colossians 4:15 Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the
church which is in his house. For
almost 1700 years the true local church met in homes. Even the Reformers failed
to leave the Stone Piles. Let us return to the homes of the believers where the
Holy Ghost started the Lord's Church long ago. Last
song--
Appalachian Regular Baptist old time Gospel song-- "Jesus
Came to Me"
Deacons in the corner thumping time with their boots,
song leader totally distracted and singing his head off,
piano hasn't
been tuned in ten years,
there is no distracting tongues speaking going on,
coal oil fumes in the air from the Aladdin lamps,
sister Jenkins is mostly
deaf, but little Billy sings real loud
right there next to her, and she loves
it,
the old school house is warm and ringing with the songs of Zion,
kids singing like they won't ever get to sing again in their life,
and the
Holy Ghost is very much at home here....
I was there-- 1949-- Briartown, Oklahoma.
Also, Quartz Hill Community church-- 1953.
Brother Miller jumped the altar
rail and hit half way down the aisle
shouting GLORY as Tony Pellerin went
forward to get saved.
Kipkaren, Kenya-- mud walled church with a grass roof.
Sang for a solid hour before the sermon.
Yermo, California-- Clap board hotel
which was a railroad red light house
that was moved across the tracks to
become a church-- 1929--
I was there in 1979-- The founding pastor was there
to do his chalk art sermons again.
I was also in Westminster Abby once on
a Sunday morning--
It smelled like a morgue and felt like it too.
CREEPY--
The singing disappeared into the ceiling.
It was cold!
Dark!
Give
me Briartown, Oklahoma any day over that Pile of Stone.
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