true church Archives - Steps to Life https://www.stepstolife.org/tag/true-church/ To prepare people for eternal life. Tue, 29 Dec 2020 18:48:32 +0000 en hourly 1 https://www.stepstolife.org/WordPress21/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-Cross-from-STL-Bible-Study-Logo512-32x32.jpg true church Archives - Steps to Life https://www.stepstolife.org/tag/true-church/ 32 32 ISSUES: Part II – Appendixes https://www.stepstolife.org/issues-part-ii-appendixes/ Sat, 30 May 2020 00:17:32 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?p=21234 Appendix - Who is the church that appears to fall but does not? - The church may appear as about to fall, but it does not fall. It remains, while the sinners in Zion will be sifted out--the chaff separated from the precious wheat.

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]]> ISSUES: Part II SECTION TWO “The Church” https://www.stepstolife.org/issues-part-ii-section-two-the-church/ Fri, 29 May 2020 23:54:12 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?p=21233 The church is one of the things of God, the most precious thing on earth in His sight. It has been established and purchased at an infinite cost to heaven. What is it about the church that makes it so precious?

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]]> Contending Churches https://www.stepstolife.org/article/contending-churches/ Mon, 20 Jan 2020 20:49:49 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=19090 However, in the closing days of His ministry Jesus wept over Jerusalem. He no longer said that the Jewish Church was His or His Father’s house but instead that it was the house of the Jews and their leaders!

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]]> God’s True People and the Professed People of God, Part I https://www.stepstolife.org/article/gods-true-people-and-the-professed-people-of-god-part-i/ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 01:33:12 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=13559 There is a vital distinction between the true people of God and the professed, or so-called, people of God. Let us see what the Word of God says in Jeremiah 7:23:...

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]]> Commitment to the Church Triumphant https://www.stepstolife.org/article/commitment-to-the-church-triumphant/ Mon, 29 Oct 2018 23:49:42 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=10300 “The professed church of Christ has wandered from her privilege, her duty, and her God. Like ancient Israel, she has forsaken the covenant, and joined herself in harmony with the world...."

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]]> Who and What is the Church? https://www.stepstolife.org/article/church-definition/ Mon, 18 Jun 2018 14:22:36 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=8743 The church is God’s fortress. Any betrayal of the church is treachery to Him who has bought mankind with the blood of His only-begotten Son.

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]]> The Shadow of the Stanton Controversy, part 3 https://www.stepstolife.org/article/shadow-stanton-controversy-part-3-church/ Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:54:45 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=8683 Not everyone who claims to be a Seventh day Adventist is acknowledged as such by God. There is a difference between the professed church and the true church.

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]]> Another Great Disappointment, The Church https://www.stepstolife.org/article/another-great-disappointment-church/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:14:49 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=6280 Do you suppose that the Christians who insisted on keeping the commandments of God and were therefore forced out of the professed church were accused of leaving the church? But who were the real separationists?

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]]> The Ship that is Going Through https://www.stepstolife.org/article/the-ship-that-is-going-through-church/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:53:13 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=6244 Do you believe that the church is going to go through to glory? So then, who is the church?

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]]> Much to Learn, Much More to Unlearn https://www.stepstolife.org/article/much-learn-much-unlearn/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 18:22:22 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=6032 God and heaven alone are infallible. Those who think that they will never have to give up a cherished view, never have occasion to change an opinion, will be disappointed. As long as we hold to our own ideas and opinions with determined persistency, we cannot have the unity for which Christ prayed.

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