Originally Posted by
1hole
I believe the tuff question is, who can rightfully claim to be "the Church".
The true church, the Bride of Christ, is composed ONLY of those who have not just "believed" in some vague form of a god but have truly made Jesus Lord of their lives; i.e., those who are spiritually "born again" believers; that can't be faked. Many who claim to be Christian are lying, even to themselves. (See Mat 7:21)
The world accepts that all who claim to "believe" and perhaps attend meetings in local groups that call themselves "the Church" must be believers but not all of those who say, "Lord, Lord, didn't we ..." are in fact a part of The Church.
The Church is very small. We have no power other than the power of God through prayer and we cannot mandate anything from goobermint.
I do believe God WILL demand an answer from his people for how earnestly we prayed over government's legally sanctioned (and partly tax funded) industrial scale murder of tens of millions of infants; THAT question will indeed be tuff!