Are You a Genuine Christian?

How to move forward in your walk

Pastor Rich Bitterman
Koinonia

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Christianity is unique. Different from all other religions. Jesus delivers grace through justice and truth.

Here is an example. In a rather severe and stern passage, Hebrews chapter 6 warns about the dire consequences of eternal judgment to Christians who are about to fall away from the faith. These same verses also are filled with encouragement and wonderful promises.

“Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and about the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. And this we will do, if God permits. For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame. For ground that drinks the rain which often alls on it and produces vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God; but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being…

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Pastor Rich Bitterman
Koinonia

Offering Daily Christian Encouragement✨ Senior Pastor at Cedar Ridge Baptist Church in Galena, MO