Is the Church Irrelevant?

[Ben1445]

You are really off your rocker if you concluded that setting someone else's picture as an avatar makes them an idol.

I have my own doubts about you. I have yet to find anyone who idolizes a roof over their head in the rain.
Have a seat in the red chair and tell me… are they with you now??

Seriously though, I don’t know anyone who thinks the church is a building that Jesus died to save.

 

[th1bill]

Sir, I don't have any beef with you, nor do I wish to have any.

I have none with you but you are like a bull in a china closet and if you stop, read and think objectively about your post before you hit the button I believe all here will respond better to what you offer.

 

[th1bill]

You are really off your rocker if you concluded that setting someone else's picture as an avatar makes them an idol.

My dad taught me, quite correctly, that in the eyes of the observer we become who we are observed to be with. Hint: I will never be seen flying an avatar of Hitler even though I love and endear my German grandfather.

 

[Aaron]

Jesus went into the synagogues. Even preached from their pulpits. So the point is moot. The churches can have their buildings. And where the Lord's Table was being abused, Paul said, Don't you have your own houses to eat and drink in? Meaning, they were meeting somewhere as a church other than their own houses.

Here endeth the lesson.

 

[Stopgap]

I have my own doubts about you.

Get in line, buddy boy.

I have yet to find anyone who idolizes a roof over their head in the rain.

A roof can be as simple as a metal sheet placed over some wooden posts.

The problem lies with raising hundreds of thousands of dollars and putting it into the cost of a roof, as well as the tens of thousands of dollars of annual maintenance that could otherwise be given to a Haitian refugee camp, for instance.

 

[Stopgap]

I have none with you but you are like a bull in a china closet and if you stop, read and think objectively about your post before you hit the button I believe all here will respond better to what you offer.

I've studied this issue for a long time. Nobody has yet presented a meaningful argument, other than throwing out verses that are ambiguous in meaning. They are vain attempts meant to justify holding onto a tradition.

 

[Stopgap]

Jesus went into the synagogues. Even preached from their pulpits. So the point is moot.

The Levitical laws of the Old Covenant were still in effect before His death, which meant the physical structures called synagogues still had relevance. We are under the New Covenant now, so the point is moot.

Meaning, they were meeting somewhere as a church other than their own houses.

For all we know, it could very well have been at the public park over by 8th Street.