The Church of Black Forest, CO

Non-State affiliated Christian Church.  No Christianity “Incorporated” here.  This congregation is not a business.  We serve God, not money, for His glory alone.

Jesus is the head of the church and our 1st love.  From that flows our love for our Christian brothers/sisters and then our fellow neighbors.  The Bible is our ultimate, inspired, infallible authority of divine revelation from God.  Here, the neglected doctrine of the Priesthood of all Believers is emphasized and practiced by all (There is no Clergy/Laity distinction here – every Christian is an ambassador for Christ).  There is one, and only one, mediator between God and man – the God/Man Christ Jesus (1 Tim 2:5).  No person needs the permission or mediatorship of another human being (including their building/business) to become or be a Christian.  Every Christian is called and sent directly by Jesus Christ.  Members of Jesus’ church have different roles and gifts that are used to serve each other on an equal, horizontal level.  Anyone who claims a vertical position of authority between a Christian and Jesus is to be rejected as a usurper and an antichrist – the most extreme example being the Pope of Rome.

Worship & Prayer, Bible Study, Discipleship, and Fellowship to equip the saints to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to make disciples is the Great Commission.

Without love, service, sacrifice, and bearing one’s cross (persecution) – one cannot be Jesus’ disciple.  This congregation is neither a Christian social club that overemphasizes personal relationships to the point of idolatry nor a wordly, pompous entertainment center.  It is a place that is medicinally hot for the spiritually sick and refreshingly cold for the spiritually weary in order to run the race and finish the course.

* False and apostate ‘christians’ (a.k.a HYPOCRITES), as listed below, need not come:

– Wolves in Sheep’s clothing; Goats; Tares;
– Narcissists (proud, lying, lovers of their false self who are looking for a drug supply of people who will give them admiration of their greatness and validate their lies); Nicolaitans (Authoritarian/Tyrannical/Cultic/Control-freak Lords); and/or Jezebels (who practice idolatry and sexual immortality) along with all of their fanatically loyal Good ol’ Boys/Girls (a.k.a. Flying Monkeys) who empower and support such wicked people.
– Those who emphasize leadership and pride (rulings and reigning as kings and queens) instead of servanthood and humility.
– Apostates in belief (faith) and/or practice (repentance).
– Those who teach that divorce is allowed by God for any reason.  This is a great evil.
– Those who teach divorce is never allowed by God.  This is also a great evil.
– Those who teach divorce is allowed by God only when a ‘christian’ spouse breaks just 1 specific commandment of the Decalogue (physical adultery).  Apparently, there are those who believe and teach that God wants a true Christian to have faith-in; trust-in; and remain married to their false ‘christian’ spouse who habitually breaks any of the other 9 commandments of the Decalogue.  The church is directed by God to excommunicate any ‘christian’ from their congregation who habitually breaks any of the 10 commandments without repentance.  These are major sins against God and one’s neighbor and it reveals an unregenerate heart.  But then it’s claimed by some that a Christian can’t divorce their excommunicated ‘christian’ spouse too unless they had specifically committed physical adultery.  This is not only another great evil, but an abomination that’s taught by the hypocrites in the churches who don’t want to get divorced for their own unrepentant chronic bad behavior of lying, idolatry, coveting, stealing, pride, spiritual adultery, etc.  1 Cor 5:11 and 2 Tim 3:5 doesn’t apply to only unmarried Christians.  Divorce and excommunication are both in the same category of church discipline applied to unrepentant, unregenerated sinners who falsely claim to be christians.
– Those who teach that Christians can live a life of sinless perfection before the resurrection or who equate regeneration with resurrection.
– Those who teach that Christians have a license by God to sin or that the 10 commandments are obsolete under the New Covenant.
– Those who teach that God can’t save a sinner until He first gets permission from the sinner to do so via a ‘sinner’s prayer.’  Anyone who believes God can’t do an action to them without first given permission to do so still has a heart filled with sinful pride.  Any person whose prayers have ‘permission statements‘ to God in them – their prayers are an abomination.  One who equates God’s sovereignty with ‘spiritual rape‘ is near being cursed.
– Anyone who teaches that faith and repentance are not gifts from God graciously given by Him after regenerating the hearts of those He’s chosen.  Any other order results in salvation by works/merit and robs God of His glory.
– Anyone who teaches in freewill or that their responsibility to God and the forgiveness of their sins is based upon such.  Anyone who teaches that God Himself has a freewill and is capable of sinning if He so chooses.
– Anyone who teaches that even a single one of God’s elect can be lost.
– Anyone who teaches that it is a part of the Great Commission to try to set up the Kingdom of God politically (Church + State), christianize entire cultures, and build buildings with pulpits and baptistries before the return of Jesus Christ.  If God didn’t need Hereod’s Temple in Jerusalem, He doesn’t need your expensive church building on 1st & Main St.
– Anyone who shows partiality and won’t hear both parties in a dispute.
– Anyone who teaches that the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 wasn’t decreed by God for His own purpose of fulfilling His promises to ethnic Jews by grafting them back into His Church upon the Return of Jesus Christ.
– Anyone who doesn’t teach in the physical, bodily future return of Jesus the Jewish Messiah from heaven to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, Israel on planet earth.
– Those that teach that the physical resurrection (rapture) of Christians and the physical, bodily return of Jesus are two events separated by a period of years.
– False Conspiracy Theorists; Paranoid Preppers; Armed Seditionists, Insurrectionists, and Rioters.  Anyone who supports Alex Jones and Infowars.
– Anyone who believes we are to ‘Focus on the Family‘ more than we love Jesus.  Anyone who believes Jesus doesn’t will division and conflict between the elect and non-elect within the immediate family.
– Those in the Home-School Movement who believe that God promises to save all their children if they faithfully homeschool them.  This false belief makes the Home-School Movement nothing more than a ‘Pharisee Factory‘ and does nothing more than add more unregenerate hypocrites into Christ’s Church.  Anyone who supports Bill Gothard and the Institute of Basic Life Principles.
– Human Traffickers: especially those in the ‘Holy Home-School Movement‘ who use their own children as unpaid slave-labor for their ‘holy‘ private businesses.  It will be better for you if a millstone was hung around your neck and you were cast into the sea than if you harm and exploit your own children.
– Alcoholics & Drug Addicts.
– Those that are addicted to receiving adoration, praise, and veneration.  This is nothing more than a covert desire to be worshiped and is one of defining traits of the devil.
– Those who cannot take criticism, admit when they are wrong, and take personal responsibility for their actions.  Those who ‘point-the-finger‘ at others when they are wrong.
– Backstabbers; Self-seekers;
– Money & Pleasure Lovers; Idolaters;
– Divisive/contentious/argumentative/quarrelsome persons;
– Lying/deceiving/slandering/gossiping/manipulative/scheming/self-righteous/mask-wearing/proud/cowardly/pharisaical Hypocrites.

We shall know you (unmask you) by your fruits (No true love of the Brethren; chronic lying; no peace; false doctrine; and/or no repentance).  If you fall into any of these stealing, murdering/hateful, and destructive categories after lying to get through the door, you will be asked once or twice to repent.  If you don’t repent after that, you will be shown the door and delivered unto your father – the devil.  This is not only for the sake of Jesus’ sheep, but for your own sake until you do repent (Matt 7:20-23; 25:31-46; Luke 13:23-30).  The Bible never says anything positive about a hypocrite.  Just as Satan can appear as an Angel of light, so can his servants disguise themselves as servants of righteousness.  While Christianity ‘Incorporated‘ is filled with unrepentant hypocrites (2 Tim 3:1-4), they will never enter God’s kingdom (2 Tim 3:5; Rev 21:8).  And because of that fact – unrepentant hypocrites are not welcome here either (2 John 10, 11).  Since we don’t have a Christianity ‘Incorporated‘ business to run, we don’t need to compromise Jesus’ Gospel by needing false and apostate christians to pay the bills.  Read and obey Rev 18:4.

Meeting on Friday, Saturdays, or Sundays.  Dates, times, and locations are flexible.

God will have compassion and mercy on some yet harden others according to His will alone.  May God be praised!

May the grace and peace of the Lord Jesus be with you all, Amen.

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The Salvation of the Elect is by Grace alone; through the unmerited gifts of Faith/Belief & Repentance alone; in Jesus Christ alone; according to the Scriptures alone; for the glory of God alone.  Amen!