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Every Member of Region XII churches should desire the highest standard of Holiness. Any member who drinks, smokes, commits adultery or fornication, steals, tells lies, gossips about another because of something he has heard, is backslidden and should go back to the altar to be refilled with the Holy Ghost. Anyone in the church who is a busybody in peddling slander and evil talk has an unclean mind. Anyone with an unclean mind is not saved.
Division destroys a church. It is caused by a carnal mind (I Cor. 3:3,Rom. 16:17):
1 Cor. 3:3 "For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?"
Rom. 16:17 "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them."
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- Categories36-40: Spiritual Practices and Traditions