I watch Trinity, I read the scripture, and I love everyone I hang with at work, etc. and slip things in about God as I go. It feels great, and I don't think I have to be a religious clone to be an effective Christian.
2007-05-28 15:59:34 · 32 answers · asked by KJ 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Mel S- isn't an assembly a group of people? I don't recall it being defined as a "church?"
2007-05-28 16:31:18 · update #1
we're not monkeys- jeez, you think you know me? Good one.
2007-05-28 16:34:41 · update #2
no do whatever you feel is right
2007-05-28 16:01:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree completely. I can't stand when Christians are always talking about church, church, church. You need church to go to heaven?! No, you need a personal and very special relationship with God to receive salvation. I have not found a church in which they weren't completely fake and phony. I went to a church once and two members almost fought!!! I was like "thats it". I don't need to prove to anyone on earth that I'm a Christian. I need to seek acceptance from the Lord and no one else. I reunite with other Christians for prayer night and bible study and learn from others as we all share our wisdom. There are people I know that go to the club and have one night stands on Friday and Saturday, do drugs, curse and then go to church faithfully every Sunday. Going to church doesn't mean you are good!
2007-05-28 16:08:10 · answer #2 · answered by amasmomma05 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why did you ask this question?
What do you think God would have to say about it?
Hebrews 10:25 "Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another - and all the more as you see the Day approaching."
My pastor's newsletter for June just arrived, and it contained the following excerpt:
Mark [Dever] told me recently that when he speaks on college campuses about the local church, he begins his talk with this provocative sentence: "If you are not a member of the church you regularly attend, you may well be going to hell." That usually quiets the room. "I don't mean for a second," Mark goes on to explain, "that you literally have to have your name on a membership card in a church somewhere to go to heaven. I believe in justification by faith alone in Christ alone by God's grace alone. At the same time, in the New Testament it seems that the local church is there to verify or falsify our claims to be Christian... I don't care how much you cry during the singing or preaching...If you do not live a life marked by love toward others, the Bible has no encouragement for you to think that you're a Christian. None. ... Do you want to know that your new life is real? ... Commit yourself to a local group of saved sinners. Try to love them. Don't just do it for three weeks. Don't just do it for six months. Do it for years. And I think you'll find out, and others will too, whether or not you love God. The truth will show itself."
--STOP DATING THE CHURCH
by Joshua Harris, p. 55-57
After reading that your question came to mind so here we are.
God bless you.
2007-05-28 16:06:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The ones that have been documented have also been disproved, from what I have read. Evangelists have been caught using wireless earpieces, and being fed information from greeters. Say I walk in to the revival, hoping to get healed of my kidney disease. A smiling handsome man greets me and welcomes me. As he leads me to my seat, he asks in a chit-chatty way, what brings me to the revival and I say I have lupus, an auto-immune arthritic disease. I don't see the microphone clipped to his lapel, but Brother Joe-Bob hears everything I say. Then, during the healing service, Bro. J-B claims that "gawd" is telling him that there is a man in the audience with lupus and God wants him healed. Etc. An Easter Orthodox church here in Texas was caught recently too, when the authorities started investigating the "miracle" of a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who was crying real tears. They took samples of the tears, tested them, and found that they were cooking oil. They set up cameras and caught a monk applying the cooking oil with a medicine dropper. These are just 2 I've heard about and I don't go out of my way to look this stuff up. I'm sure there are lots more that never make it to the newspapers or internet.
2016-03-13 01:09:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most probably, you could see some discrimination or frauds that is happening in your church. The main culprits are the so-called pastors or priests themselves who don't do what they preach. Their actions really discourage honest-hearted Christians from going to their church.
Why not try another one that can really give some encouragement, learn God's Word and do what they preach?
Try Jehovah's Witnesses. Many people have spoken badly about them but have you wondered how bad can they really be if they are willing to sacrifice their own time and money to preach the Kingdom Good News (if they knew that their religion is not the truth)??
2007-05-28 16:55:38 · answer #5 · answered by ASTAN 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Can the foot say to the eye that it is not part of the body?"
When you fail to attend mass then you are like the foot telling the eye that you're too good to be a part of the body. Yes, as Christan's, we ALL have different functions as the foot serves the body differently than the eye. However, this difference does NOT mean that the foot can disown the eye. God commanded that we make the Sabbath Day Holy. A huge part of Christianity is uniting at Church to honor God. Yes, God wants much better for you than for you to whimsically decide what you can and cannot do.
2007-05-28 16:10:23 · answer #6 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that it is "bad" but I know that I love the Lord and I want to live my life for him and in the way I know he will want me to do so..so when I go to church..yes I do feel like it is where I need to be.. but also because I want to know more about what I hear and read about the bible and I want to learn as much as I can and going to church is a great way to do that because the bible teaches us so many many things that I feel that we cannot learn them all by simply reading.
2007-05-28 16:06:18 · answer #7 · answered by m g 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion, and again, it's just opinion, I think how we live our lives makes us more Christian than if, when or where we worship. Going to church is simply geography. There are wicked people who show up for church every Sunday and good Christians who never go to church.
If you keep Christ in your heart.... then where you are really doesn't matter.
2007-05-28 16:03:59 · answer #8 · answered by Ohio Girl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No its not bad. As long as you truely believe then there is no real point in chucrch unless you want to be surrounded and talk with others that feel the same. I'm not saying church is a bad place though, dont get me wrong.
[x]melanieinuyasha
2007-05-28 16:03:22 · answer #9 · answered by melanieinuyasha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CHRIST loved THE church and gave HIMSELF (shed his blood) for IT (singular)...Eph. 5:25
Christ purchased the church with HIS blood (Acts 20:28).
He must have thought that His church was to be a VERY important part of a Christian's life because HE adds the saved to THE church according to Acts 2:47.
Since THE church is Christ's body (Eph. 1:23) & Christ is the Savior of THE body (Eph. 5:23)...HOW can anyone be saved OUTSIDE of THE church?
THE church is THE body of Christ..
If one is not a member of THE church that CHRIST said that HE would build, then one is NOT part of CHRIST's body....
to reject CHRIST's church (body) is to reject the SAVIOR of THE body....Jesus Christ.
Christ said that HE would build HIS church (singular) Matt. 16:18...He did NOT say that He would build a bunch of different denominations with conflicting doctrines and traditions that are contrary to the very oracles of God.
Where the word churches (plural) is used in scripture it is NEVER used to designate different denominations, but rather, CHRIST's church in different locations/communities. Example: Corinth, Ephesus, Jerusalem, etc.
Can someone be a Christian WITHOUT attending worship with the church?
Yes...there are Christians who are housebound, however, its like a: Student who wont go to school; a bee without a hive; a parent without a family; a football player without a team; etc
Considering Christ LOVED the church enough to give His life for her..shouldn't we LOVE the church as He did?
2007-05-28 16:50:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't there a Scripture "forsake not the assembling of yourselves together"? It is required that a Christian attend church and be instructed by the five-fold ministry. Sorry, find a church.
2007-05-28 16:03:23 · answer #11 · answered by mel s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋