Many thanks dear Bill for your encouraging words. Just one more thing: It was all FREE WILLINGLY DONE> the Holy Spirit never dforces itself on anyone, it always seeks the loqwest place and flees as soon and as quickly as selfwill , pride, power seeking ect come in. Greetings Klaus > -----Original Message----- > From: HEVEAN@... [SMTP:HEVEAN@...] > Sent: 09 May 2000 19:01 > To: Klaus Meier > Subject: [CU] Re:Less People, more Christians > > In a message dated 5/9/00 2:55:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > klausm@... writes: > > << Then it continues in Acts : and no one > suffered need. If anyone thinks that was for then , let me say: I do not > believe that the Holy Spirit changed directions , He is the same > yesterday, > today and into all Eternity. And He also did not say : Give 10 % or 50 or > 99% , they gave all they possesed and NO one called anything their > own. > And this practical unity then continued into the spiritual unity we are > so > desperately seeking today, but the spiritual and the practical have to go > together and can not be separated. The separation between practical and > spiritual is another one of the curses that weighs us down toda >> > > Klaus, > Well said. Prior to Vatican 2, church history books referred to the > declaration of Christianity as the religion of the empire, as the Triumph > of > Christianity. We now know that this began the decline of Christianity. At > this time the clerical class developed and the Laos or people were > relegated > to lower status. Clerical offices were associated with money and celibacy > became popular, not so much for spiritual reasons as Paul practiced, but > so > that the possessions of the clerical office would not be passed on to > family > but to the monarchical church. Nevertheless God always made sure that the > message of Jesus Crucified was available for those who sought it and > fortunately down through the ages we have many great martyrs and witnesses > to > the faith. Today the effort is to put Christianity back into Christendom. > We > do not need more people so much as more Christians. We probably need less > people in the churches but more practicing Christians. > > Peace > > Bill > > -- > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to > <christianunity-unsubscribe@...>