I been a Christian for 12 years, I'm not a very good Christian but every church I go to thinks I'm a new believer
I would offer to beware of the wiles of the devil Most churches focus on numbers ($$$$) and would be quick to make their sect the authority .($$$$) At the same time $$$$ mammon is needed for the ministry So then the wisdom of God comes into play . In that way no man can serve two teaching masters. mammon (necromancy) and all things written in the law and the prophets. Or Moses used to represent the law and the prophets The prophets signified by Elias the power of the Spirit .
Mathew 23: 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make
one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him
twofold more the child of
hell than yourselves.
Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve
God and
mammon.
(1) Its either necromancy, seeking after patron saints as disembodied workers with a familiar spirits following the law of the fathers (scribes and Pharisee's with Sadaucess two sects. . .of a hierarchy of men that Lord it over the faith or understanding of the non venerable pew sitters or (2) the true master sola scriptura:. "all things written in the law and prophets ".
So then welcome the greeting and explain you have been born again . Maybe one should ask a new member rather than assuming ?
Luke 16: 29-31 Abraham saith unto him,
They have
Moses and the
prophets; let
them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them
from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto
him, If they
hear not
Moses and the
prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though
one rose from the
dead.