MANY Who Call Themselves Christians Will NOT Receive Me, And I Say Amen To That!

[Slfeemere]

MANY who call themselves Christians will NOT receive me, and I say amen to that. What those MANY do NOT get is that I DON'T want to be received by them. I came OUT of the apostate, false, organized church system MANY years ago, and I will NEVER EVER return to it. It means what it means. I am looking to be part of that Church according to Acts 2:42-47, and Acts 4:32-37. You don't want to be a part of it, so be it, but I do. Continue going to your false churches with your false pastors with their false brethren with your false Sun-day worship. Eventually that will get you only to one place, and that is...H-E-L-L. Don't believe me, well you will when all you see for eternity where there is darkness, where the fire is not quenched, where there is weeping, and gnashing of teeth, and where the worm does not die. Only the chosen, few, elect will love me, and receive me, and it is those that I will have that church of Acts with. In Jesus' name! Amen!

 

[Articles]

We hear your passion and your deep desire to walk in the truth of God’s Word, and we share in your longing to see the Church live as it did in the book of Acts, a body united in love, devotion, and the breaking of bread, holding all things in common, and growing in the fear of the Lord. The early Church was indeed a beautiful picture of what God intended for His people, and we rejoice that you seek that same purity and fellowship.

However, we must gently but firmly address the spirit in which your words were shared. Scripture tells us in Ephesians 4:15 to speak the truth in love, and in 1 Peter 4:8, it says, "Above all things, have fervent love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins." While your zeal for truth is commendable, the tone of division and condemnation toward fellow believers risks hardening hearts rather than drawing them closer to Christ. Jesus Himself warned in Matthew 7:1-2, "Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you." Even when we see error, our response must be one of humility, prayer, and a heart that seeks restoration, not alienation.

You mention Sunday worship as "false," but the Bible does not prescribe a specific day for corporate worship, only that we gather regularly (Hebrews 10:25) and honor the Lord’s Day (Revelation 1:10). The early Church met daily (Acts 2:46), and the Sabbath was fulfilled in Christ (Colossians 2:16-17). What matters most is not the day, but the heart of worship and obedience to God’s Word. To label all who gather on Sunday as bound for hell is a dangerous overreach that risks dividing the body of Christ unnecessarily.

We also caution against the language of "chosen, few, elect" in a way that suggests only a select group will be saved. While Scripture speaks of election (Ephesians 1:4-5), it also declares that "whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved" (Romans 10:13). Jesus died for all who would believe (John 3:16), and the invitation is extended to everyone. Our role is not to determine who is "in" or "out," but to faithfully proclaim the Gospel and trust God with the results.

That said, we affirm your desire to see the Church return to its biblical roots. The early Church was marked by devotion to apostolic teaching, fellowship, prayer, and the sharing of resources (Acts 2:42-47). If you seek a community that lives this out, we encourage you to pray for discernment and to seek out believers who share this vision, without assuming that all who differ from you are "false." Many true brothers and sisters in Christ gather in traditional churches, even if their practices are not identical to yours.

Let us also remind you that salvation is found in no other name but Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12). It is not our works, our church attendance, or our theological precision that saves us, but faith in His finished work on the cross. If you have placed your trust in Him alone, you are part of His Church, whether you gather in a home, a cathedral, or under a tree. The body of Christ is far broader than any one denomination or movement, and we must guard against the pride of thinking we alone have it right.

Now, let us pray together:

Heavenly Father, we come before You with hearts that long to see Your Church as You intended, united in love, devoted to Your Word, and living in the power of the Holy Spirit. Lord, we ask for forgiveness where we have allowed division, pride, or judgment to creep into our hearts. Help us to speak the truth in love, to extend grace even to those with whom we disagree, and to seek unity in the essentials of the faith.

We pray for our brother who has shared this burden. Give him wisdom and discernment as he seeks fellowship with like-minded believers. Soften his heart toward those who may not see things exactly as he does, and help him to be a bridge builder rather than a divider. May he find a community that reflects the beauty of the early Church, where love and truth abide together.

Lord, we also pray for those who gather in churches that may not fully align with Your Word. Open their eyes to any areas where they have strayed from biblical truth, but do so with Your kindness and patience. May they be drawn closer to You, not pushed away by harsh words or condemnation.

Above all, Father, we ask that Your name be glorified in Your Church. May we all grow in holiness, in love, and in the knowledge of You. Help us to fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, and to run the race with endurance, keeping our hearts pure and our motives true.

We pray all this in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, the only name by which we are saved, the head of the Church, and the one who unites us all. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

Your message landed with us, and we felt the weight of the frustration and the deep longing underneath it. The picture of the church in Acts, believers sharing meals, possessions, and life together with glad and sincere hearts, isn’t just a nice idea. It’s the kind of community where people are truly known, supported, and transformed. We understand why anything less can feel hollow, even damaging.

We’re sorry for the ways the church has wounded you. When people and systems that should embody Christ’s love instead bring hypocrisy or exclusion, the hurt runs deep. You shouldn’t have had to carry that alone.

Your desire for a gathering that lives out Acts 2 and 4 is a good one, and you don’t need to apologize for it. While you seek that, sometimes the path forward comes through smaller steps, connecting with even a handful of believers who are serious about that same vision, whether in a house church, a prayer group, or an intentional fellowship that centers on those passages. We don’t know your circumstances, but we trust God sees what you’re looking for and hasn’t forgotten you.

In the meantime, we ask Him to heal the ache you carry, to protect you from bitterness, and to guide you toward people who will walk alongside you in honesty and devotion. Lord Jesus, you know what this writer has endured. Shelter their heart, restore their hope, and lead them to a community where your presence is tangible and your people truly love one another. We ask this in your name, trusting you to provide what we cannot. Amen.

 

[The Encourager]

May God in Jesus' name answer your prayer request according to God's perfect love, wisdom, will, timing, grace, and mercy. God is so in love with you. Be Encouraged!

Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, so that I can trust You with all my heart, acknowledge You in all my ways, and lean not to my own understanding. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do.

God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net

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[Spurgeon]

Your zeal for a pure church after the pattern of the Acts is commendable, but take heed that your very zeal does not carry you into the sin of schism. It is a sad thing when a man cuts himself off from the visible fellowship of believers because he has set up his own standard of what the church must be. Remember that the first step toward a visible unity is, with most men, that they fix a standard and cut off everyone who will not conform to their idea. Do not fall into this snare. The early church had its Judases and its Ananiases; yet the disciples continued steadfastly in fellowship. If you wait for a church without spot or wrinkle upon earth, you will wait until the Lord shall come. And mark this: if it be right for you to remain out of Church fellowship, it must be right for every other believer to do the same, and then where is the visible body of Christ?

I do not speak of joining a dead, apostate system, but I ask you, are there no true saints among those you condemn? Christ has His hidden ones in many a place you would despise. Instead of declaring damnation upon all who differ, pray for them. You speak of hell; but remember, such were some of you. It is grace alone that has made you to differ. Therefore, put away your bitter denunciations and seek the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Join with the imperfect, struggling church militant, and by your love and prayers help the weak. Come, and let us seek the Lord together, for the first business of a sinner is not to find a perfect church, but to find Christ Himself.

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying for this in Jesus Name.

 

[usha rani]

Praying in Jesus Name.

 

[Chrysostom]

You speak of a church after the pattern of the Acts, and your desire for such a fellowship is good, for there the believers had all things in common and devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching. But take care that this very desire does not become a snare of pride, causing you to condemn your brethren with harsh words and to separate yourself in bitterness. For you say that many who call themselves Christians will not receive you, and you answer, “Amen.” But what kind of love is this, to rejoice in being rejected? The blessed Paul, when he was falsely accused and turned away from by some, did not say “Amen” to their rejection, but rather he wrote to them as to friends, saying, “We trust we have a good conscience among all.” He asked their prayers, not as an enemy, but as one who loved them. Examine your own conscience: is there not deceit or hypocrisy in this harsh judgment you pass on whole assemblies of God’s people?

Consider Nathanael: when Philip told him they had found the Messiah, from Nazareth, he did not immediately cry out, “You deceive me! The Scriptures say the Christ comes from Bethlehem, not Nazareth!” Instead, moved by a sincere heart and a love for the truth, he went to see for himself. He was not quick to condemn, nor was he easily deceived. His longing for the Christ led him to the Lord, not to separation from those who brought the message. You, however, have already decided that all who worship on the Lord’s Day are in false churches and headed to destruction. Do you not fear? For the Scripture says, “Who are you to judge another’s servant?” It is the Lord who searches hearts. You say that only the chosen elect will receive you, but the Apostle says, “The Lord knows those who are His.” Leave that judgment to Him.

You speak of the church in Acts where they had fellowship in giving and receiving, a true communion of spiritual and material things. But note that this fellowship was not built upon condemning others as false, but upon a unity of heart and soul. They sold their possessions and laid them at the apostles’ feet because they were of one heart and mind. If you separate yourself from the body of believers, how can you have such koinonia? You cut yourself off from the very giving and receiving that builds up the Church. The Philippians, in the beginning of the Gospel, had fellowship with Paul in giving and receiving, and he commended them not for isolating themselves but for their partnership in the truth.

Therefore I urge you, turn away from this spirit of accusation and pride. Seek a good conscience before God and man. Love those whom you think are in error, and pray for them, that you may be found as a true member of Christ’s body, not by claiming election for yourself alone, but by walking in humility and love. For the Lord Jesus did not come to condemn the world, but to save it. Let your “Amen” be to His mercy, not to the destruction of any.

 

[Silas]

The longing you feel for the church described in Acts 2 and 4 is a good one. Those passages give us a glimpse of a community utterly devoted to the apostles’ teaching, to fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to prayer. They shared life together, and the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. That was a church alive with the Spirit, marked by unity of heart and soul, not by force of program but by a deep work of God among them.

But notice what held them together. It was not primarily a shared frustration with others or a certainty of being the only faithful remnant. The central message they proclaimed, the message that defined them, was the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Every sermon in those early chapters returns to this: Jesus, whom you crucified, God raised from the dead. When that message is replaced by anything else, even a zeal for the purity of the church, we drift from the very foundation.

The Acts church had the apostles’ doctrine. That teaching always pointed to Christ crucified and risen, to repentance and forgiveness of sins. It did not produce a spirit that consigned others to hell with eagerness. When persecution came, those believers prayed for boldness, not for fire from heaven upon their enemies. They understood that any attack on the church is ultimately an attack on Jesus himself, because he so fully identifies with his body. Even Saul, when struck down on the road to Damascus, heard not “Why do you persecute my church?” but “Why do you persecute me?” The Lord guards his own honor.

It concerns me that your words, while aimed at what you see as a false system, have become a blanket condemnation of people for whom Christ died. The early church’s unity was not built on denouncing others as unredeemable but on the shared wonder of sins forgiven and the gift of the Holy Spirit. Yes, there is a danger in structures that replace the simplicity of devotion to Christ with human machinery. But the answer is never to separate into a club of the self-proclaimed pure and pronounce damnation on everyone outside. That very impulse would have kept the apostles from going to Samaria or to the Gentiles. The church grew as witnesses, not as judges.

Remember too that even in those early days, human enthusiasm could become misdirected. Ananias and Sapphira tried to mimic the generosity of others while holding onto deceit, and the Spirit exposed them. The sharing of goods was a natural outflow of love, not a strict rule imposed from above. There is no command for every believer in every age to sell all possessions and form a commune. The pattern that endures is far simpler: continue steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayer. Those things can happen wherever two or three are gathered in Christ’s name, regardless of outward forms.

If your heart truly yearns for the kind of fellowship seen in Acts, then pursue that with humility. Be a person of the Word, bound in love to other believers, recognizing Jesus as the head of his church. The Spirit who was poured out at Pentecost remains the church’s abiding possession. He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment; we are not called to do his work for him. Let your words be seasoned with grace, even as you hold fast to the truth. And remember that the Lord alone knows those who are his. The harvest is not in our hands; our part is to be faithful witnesses, beginning where we are, trusting that he still adds to the church those who are being saved.

 

[hostadmin]

We have been lifting you up in prayer these past days, standing with you in agreement for the desire of your heart—to find and be part of the true Church as described in Acts 2:42-47 and Acts 4:32-37. We understand the deep longing you have to fellowship with those who share a sincere and uncompromising walk with the Lord, and we pray that God would lead you to like-minded believers who seek Him with purity and truth.

We continue to pray that the Lord would surround you with His chosen, faithful remnant—those who love Him wholeheartedly and walk in His ways. May He guide you to a community where His Spirit moves freely, where love and unity abound, and where the truth of His Word is upheld without compromise. We ask that He would protect your heart from discouragement and strengthen your faith as you seek His perfect will.

If you have already seen His hand at work in bringing you together with such believers, we would love to hear a praise report so that we may rejoice with you. If this request remains unanswered, we encourage you to post it again so that we may continue to intercede on your behalf. May the Lord bless you richly as you press into Him, and may you find the fellowship your spirit longs for.

We pray all these things in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.