Tit-for-Tat on Feasting

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob" <bat@charter.net>
To: "Walter \Chick\ McGill" <crmin@ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 12:03 AM
Subject: Re. Your church

Dear Walter

You wrote to me at Adventist4Truth requesting inclusion of your church group on the Home Church listing.

Don't you think that it would have been much more honest to have simply stated that you believe and teach feast days? You simply said that there were some minor differences but overall you met the qualifications. Do I have to list every point of doctrine on the page so that you can check mark your beliefs against what this website believes and promotes??

I dealt with you once before several years ago and I should have listened to my inner sense when I read your innocent caveat....

Thanks, but No Thanks
Bob

VISIT <www.adventist4truth.com>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pastor "Chick" McGill"
< PastorChick@creation-7th-day-adventist-church.org>
To: "Bob" <bat@charter.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: Re. Your church

Bob,

I really do not understand your aversion to "the feast", as we appear to be in good company with the Apostle who kept it.

The Acts of the Apostles, page 390, paragraph 4
Chapter Title: Paul's Last Journey to Jerusalem
At Philippi Paul tarried to keep the Passover. Only Luke remained with him, the other members of the company
[ 391]
passing on to Troas to await him there. The Philippians were the most loving and truehearted of the apostle's converts, and during the eight days of the feast he enjoyed peaceful and happy communion with them.

FACT #3: (from "Commentary")
The only proof that the apostles kept the Sabbath with Gentile converts is found in Acts 16:12, 13, during Paul's Second Missionary Tour at Philippi (c. A.D. 49- 52). Interestingly enough, during Paul's Third Missionary Tour (c. A.D. 53- 58), he kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread with Gentile
converts at Philippi (Acts 20:6; AA 390-91). Surely by this time Paul would have known God's will concerning the keeping of the feasts, and he did,
because he writes, "...let us keep the holyday..." (1 Co. 5:8, margin; c.
A.D. 57).

[Philippi: "...a Roman 'colony', i.e., it contained a body of Roman citizens,...The church there was mainly Gentile, there being no Jewish synagogue." NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE; Cambridge Study Edition; Concise
Bible Dictionary, p. 95.]

Though we have never made "feast-keeping" a "test of fellowship," disowning brethren who do not "keep the feast," it is certainly rude, at least, on your part to disown your brethren who do observe it.

I exhort you to remove your head from the sand and study for yourself.

Respectfully,
Pastor "Chick" McGill
http://7th-day-adventist.org/

Walter,

I beg to differ with you, especially as to who is being rude here. That
wasn't my intent and if I was, my apologies are extended.