“I think what the IRS should be going after will be some kind of expressed statement from the pulpit to the entire congregation saying, ‘This is the way you need to vote, and it's for this particular person.’ And that absolutely does happen, but it's just very rarely ever dealt with at a bureaucratic level.” “Over time groups have learned that they can skirt the lines, if not crossover a little bit, and still be largely OK,” said University at Buffalo associate professor of political science Jacob Neiheisel, who studies the Christian right. The rules surrounding tax-exempt churches and politics leave plenty of gray area, and even when there are violations, the rules are rarely enforced. We can't yell fire in a crowded theater, obviously, but issues that everyday Americans in my congregation deal with, there is nothing that I cannot talk about.”Īnd under the current regulations and enforcement, Doyle may not be wrong. I think we can talk about anything that we want to. “I think we do have a right to talk, no matter what the topic is. “I'd like to test the Constitution,” he said. “To let the IRS know that this church is engaged in explicitly political activity,” said Genesee County DSA member Gregory Lebens-Higgins.Ĭornerstone Pastor Paul Doyle said he’s unconcerned about his tax status, and is confident it’s his legal right to essentially say whatever he wants from the pulpit. The Genesee County Democratic Socialists of America is calling on community members to file complaints against Cornerstone with the Internal Revenue Service. That same scrutiny is now on the nondenominational Batavia church that hosted ReAwaken America last weekend, Cornerstone Church, a registered 501c3 under the name New Hope Ministries. “And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.Pastor Greg Locke speaks at the ReAwaken America Tour event at Cornerstone Church in Batavia Aug. WE WILL PRESS ON BY PLACING SIGNIFICANT EMPHASIS ON THE NEXT GENERATION.Spectators become critics but participants become caretakers. WE WILL PRESS ON BY PARTICIPATING IN GOD’S ACTIVITY, NOT JUST SPECTATING.To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. “But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked “When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying who can listen to it?”. WE WILL PRESS ON BY PURSUING GROWTH AS A CHURCH INTENTIONALLY.We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.” “If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.” 2 Timothy 4:1-4 “I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word be ready in season and out of season reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. WE WILL PRESS ON BY PREACHING THE WORD OF GOD UNASHAMEDLY.“There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:12 (NLT) WE WILL PRESS ON BY PROCLAIMING JESUS ABOVE EVERYTHING.WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE TO PRESS ON AS A CHURCH INTO THE FUTURE?
Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better." - Martin Luther It has not yet happened, but it is on the way. "Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good not to be well, but to get well not being but becoming nor rest but training. …But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13b-14
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own… Philippians 3:12-13a “Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. “for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.” Philippians 2:13 “And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6
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