Answer The Church preaches one set of things and practices a number of others. There are a number of charlatans today hiding behind the mask of religion, while they deceitfully engage in exploiting and extorting financial bounties from gullible fanatics.
Everything in the Bible is still RELEVANT FOR today.
The book of revelation is doctrinally written to seven churches that will be on the earth during the time of the great tribulation. The Church of today will not be on the earth during the time that revelation unfolds on the earth. These tribulation churches will be required to believe and express faith in different ways much of the time than the Church of today. That is why much of what Christ says when speaking to these seven churches in revelation is somewhat different than what Paul wrote to the church of today in Romans, Galatians, Ephesians, ect.
As physical churches, no. But symbolically, yes. Each one of the churches had virtues present, but also sin rampant. All churches today deal with the problems of all seven churches mentioned, some do better than others in certain areas. As saints of God, it is our duty to try to be like Christ in every way, and to support each other along that path. If done properly by all members within a church, the church will have eliminated most, if not all, of the sin within.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) takes a sympathetic approach to mental illness and suicide, and has recently begun a campaign to support individuals and families affected by such things. The Church teaches that taking your own life is generally wrong, but that a person who commits suicide may not be responsible for their actions. The Church teaches that only God can judge the individual because He knows their genetic and chemical makeup as well as their individual circumstances.If you'd like to learn more about the Church's view and teachings on suicide, please see https://www.lds.org/topics/suicide?lang=eng.
The Bible doesn't mention this form of dispersal of communion at all. However a woman standing today shows leadership and women are not to lead in the church.
Westboro Baptist Church is wrong for protesting soldiers funerals.
of course
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It has given the church a bad name.
depending on which church you go to
hades today is all the wrong doing in this world today.
The leader of the Catholic Church is the pope. Today (2011) that is Pope Benedict XVI.
"We missed you in church today" in English is Ci siete mancati in chiesa oggi in Italian.
Jesus's teachings were written down in the bible through a secondary source, and the church tries to interpret that. SOmetimes teh church doesn't work as well as Jesus, or gets wrong information, becuase they or the writers of the bible are human.
They thought the teachings were wrong and was to much like the roman church.
Because he did not like the rules of the church he was with and this was because the rules said what he had done was wrong.
It is still an active church today.