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    Calling all Christians!

    This is a call to Christians around the world to please let's join together by proudly displaying the Christian flag, either at home, on our car, etc.
    The Christian flag is a non-biased universal sign of Christianity. It isn't divided in denomination, race, nationality, or language.
    Preachers, maybe speak to your congregations, order them from somewhere, or make them by hand.
    Brothers and sisters in Christ, I ask for your help and prayers.
    For this I am determined to follow my heart, and what better place to start than right here on the Christian forum.
    Thank you all, and God bless
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    Does that mean lift high the cross?
    ♪ Each day may Christ become clearer, His Cross dearer, Our Hope nearer. ♫

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    Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. Philippians 2:16

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    The first pledge to the Christian flag was written by Methodist pastor Lynn Harold Hough in 1908.
    "I pledge allegiance to the Christian Flag and to the Savior for whose kingdom it stands. One brotherhood, uniting all mankind, in service and love."


    Fenris: "There are two ways to shoot an arrow into a bulls-eye You can shoot the arrow into the bulls-eye or you can shoot the arrow and paint the bulls-eye wherever it hits"

    Romans 12:19 Don't seek revenge ... give place to God's wrath. For it is written "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord"

    Isa. 30:32
    And every blow of the rod of punishment, which the Lord will lay on him, will be with the music of tambourines and lyres; And in battles, brandishing weapons, He will fight them

    G_d was gracious He has shown favor

    What are you willing to die for? Now live for it!




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    Quote Originally Posted by TrophyofGrace View Post
    Thanks for the picture, TrophyofGrace.
    RED stands for the blood of Jesus Christ and love
    WHITE stands for purity and peace
    BLUE stands for faith and truth
    Support is needed from Christians around the world, to come together in one unified act of Christianity. To know it in your heart, we are saved by the blood of Jesus Christ.
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    I don't find any historical or biblical imperative to pledge allegiance to or to display religious symbols.

    I'll be passing out cups of cool water.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RabbiKnife View Post
    I don't find any historical or biblical imperative to pledge allegiance to or to display religious symbols.

    I'll be passing out cups of cool water.
    If we would be obedient we would Preach the word be instant in season and out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. 2Tim 4:2 Flags are fun but our mandate is to declare Christ before a lost and dying world. Mat 28:19-20 If flying a Christian flag will provoke you to testify of Christ then by all means have at it.

    For the cause of Christ.
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    Quote Originally Posted by notuptome View Post
    If we would be obedient we would Preach the word be instant in season and out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. 2Tim 4:2 Flags are fun but our mandate is to declare Christ before a lost and dying world. Mat 28:19-20 If flying a Christian flag will provoke you to testify of Christ then by all means have at it.

    For the cause of Christ.
    Roger
    If my life was not already a testimony of Christ, I'd never even call myself a Christian, let alone fly the Christian flag. You, however, have free will to think what you want. I find you and RabbiKnife potential stumbling blocks to a good effort in the name of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. It isn't an effort to force anyone to do anything they felt was wrong, and people with your attitudes, I wouldn't encourage flying the Christian flag at all.

    To any Christians around the world who want to join in this effort of support for Christianity, please don't let negative responses deter you. Anything we do as one, in the name of Jesus Christ, is good and successful, maybe even FUN!
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    I don't have a Christian flag and wouldn't know where to get one either...
    "People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; We drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; We drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated?" - D A Carson

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    Quote Originally Posted by RabbiKnife View Post
    I don't find any historical or biblical imperative to pledge allegiance to or to display religious symbols.

    I'll be passing out cups of cool water.
    Actually the early Christian used the sign of the fish to let other believers know where they were...

    The Christian Fish Symbol

    The fish was an early symbol of Christian faith that endures today on bumper stickers and businesses as a sign of Christian faith.


    The fish is thought to have been chosen by the early Christians for several reasons:

    * the Greek word for fish (ICHTUS), works nicely as an acrostic for "Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior"
    * the fish would not be an obvious Christian symbol to persecutors
    * Jesus' ministry is associated with fish: he chose several fishermen to be his disciples and declared he would make them "fishers of men."

    It is said that during the persecution of the early church, a Christian meeting someone new would draw a single arc in the sand. If the other person was a Christian, he or she would complete the drawing of a fish with a second arc. If the second person was not a Christian, the ambiguity of the half-symbol would not reveal the first person as a Christian.

    The second fish symbol above is the ICHTHUS fish, with the Greek word for fish written out to emphasize the symbolic acrostic described above.

    Although the word looks like IXOYE, the letters are from the Greek alphabet, so the "I" is actually an iota, the "X" is actually a chi, the "O" is actually a theta, the "Y" is an upsilon, and the "E" or "C" at the end is a sigma. Taking the first sound from each of these Greek letter names, we get the transliteration into our alphabet of ICHTHUS.

    Today, when Christians (in the West) do not need to worry about persecution, the Christian fish symbol often has "Jesus" written inside or includes a cross symbol. And of course, there have been many spoofs and variations of the popular Christian symbol, such as the famous "Darwin fish" (with legs).

    The fish is also a symbol of baptism, since a fish is at home in the water.

    Related Bible Verse

    As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. "Come, follow men," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men." At once they left their nets and followed him. (Mark 1:16-18)
    References

    1. Patricia S. Klein, Worship without Words: The Signs and Symbols of Our Faith (2000).
    2. Carolle E. Whittenmore, ed., Symbols of the Church.
    3. George Wells Ferguson, Signs & Symbols in Christian Art.
    4. Frederick Rest, Our Christian Symbols.


    God Bless
    "People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; We drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; We drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated?" - D A Carson

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    I think his key word was "imperative", that is, that there is a necessity to display a particular symbol in order to spread the gospel.

    Personally, while I think it wouldn't do harm to Christianity to have its own universally recognizable flag, I don't put stock in the one being discussed. Particularly, the fact that it isn't really "universal". The creator blatantly based it off of the US flag (in design and color), which makes it more of an American icon than a universal one...

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    Quote Originally Posted by moonglow View Post
    I don't have a Christian flag and wouldn't know where to get one either...
    We have found some on ebay at a reasonable price, and some other places online sell them. We are, however, getting material together to make them ourselves too. I'd be glad to send you one when we are done making them.
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    I'm not so sure about the flag, but the pledge of allegiance to it is kinda creepy to be honest.

    I hope this doesn't sound like a stupid question: But what would having everyone fly this flag on their homes and cars accomplish?

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    "And they will know that you are my disciples by your flags."

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    Quote Originally Posted by RUN2GOD View Post
    We have found some on ebay at a reasonable price, and some other places online sell them. We are, however, getting material together to make them ourselves too. I'd be glad to send you one when we are done making them.
    That is ok...I have nothing to hang it on anyway. Good luck with this though.

    God bless
    "People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; We drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; We drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated?" - D A Carson

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