Derrick,

I enjoy your impassioned approach in your videos.

You made some really good points!

I would agree that I have been too long concerned with differences in other churches.

Some of those differences were preferences, some customs, some cultural, some traditions, some practices, and yes, some were doctrinal.

However, I realize, now, that it is not my place to try to "correct" other churches, or even to get them to change.

All the Christians will have to stand before the judgment seat of Christ, the bema, and give an account.

So, the Christians in a particular church will have to give an account of what they did as a church, and in that church.

Then, the pastor of that church will have to give an account of what he taught that church to do and believe, and the direction that church went.

Someone in a Pentecostal church will not have to give an account for what the Baptist church, down the street, did or did not do or believe.

And neither will someone in that Baptist church need to give an account for the Pentecostal church.

The church in Corinth was not told to help fix problems in Philippi, or in Thessalonica.

The church in Corinth had plenty of their own problems to work on.

On a different note, the church in Corinth seemed to be zealous for exercising the gifts of the spirit, and was the only church written to about speaking in tongues.

There were seven letters from Jesus, that he had John write, to seven churches in Asia which were radically different from one another.

Those churches were all in the same general area, and not too far from each other.

Yet, by the way Jesus described, and spoke to, those seven churches, it sure seems that they all were very different about what they focused on.

The five that were rebuked, were to work on their own problems, not to fix, or work on, the problems in the other churches.

Six were commended by Jesus, even though they were so different from one another.

What you taught about being sealed by the Spirit, was amazing - simple, yet profound.

That really explained a lot.

Thank you, very much, for letting me hear that.