Live your life to please God, do not be bogged down by denominational governance. Grow your faith by regularly reading scriptures for the Holy Sprit to increase your power to discern what God wants you to accomplish. Paul, before his name was changed, was overzealous to see everyone obeying the Mosaic Law (which was the curtain raiser for ushering in the grace of God through forgiveness of sins by Christ's death on the cross and His victory over death on the same cross). Be conformed to the will of God and not to the will of other people.
2 Corinthians 5
13. 'If it seems we are crazy, it is to bring glory to God. And if we are in our right minds, it is for your benefit.
14. Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life.
15. He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.
16. So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now!
17. This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
18. And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him.
19. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.
20. So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”
21. For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.'
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