JUST ALIKE -- ONLY DIFFERENT

     An antique collector, passing through a small village, stopped to
watch an old man chopping wood with an ancient ax.
     "That's a might old as you have there," remarked the collector.
     "Yep," said the villager, "this ax once belonged to George
Washington."
     "Not really," gasped the collector, "It certainly stood up well."
     "Well, or course," the old man admitted, "it's had three new
handles and two new heads; but other than that, it is the very same
ax."
     This conversation serves to illustrate the reasoning (?) that is
often heard when people discuss the religious bodies of our day. Many
make the claim that they are the New Testament church and then with
the next breath admit they do many things that are different. It seems
strange that one would acknowledge doing something different from what
the Apostles taught and practiced.
     Can any honest, sincere and thoughtful person afford to fall into
false logic as this? If what is being practiced in religion does not
have authority for it, then it falls under Heaven's curse. See
Revelation 22:18-19.
     Are you sure that you can find what you are practicing in
religion upon the pages of Divine Truth?  If not, why take the chance?
If I am practicing something different from what I read in God's Book,
then I am standing on sandy soil and Jesus warns about sandy soil in
Matthew 7:26, 27.
   ----Jack Thompson, Preacher for the White Park church of Christ.

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