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Reasons NOT to attend church!
Discussion in 'General Baptist Discussions' started by Jedi Knight, Dec 27, 2014.
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Jedi Knight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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righteousdude2 Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Jedi Knight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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You cannot find it's location.
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Is going to church asking too much?
What is the church? A social club for saints? A hospital for sinners? A support group for weak people? A home for hypocrites?
Obviously the church enjoys a distorted reputation in the world. The truth is that the church never meets. In fact, the majority of its membership role is dead. There are no leaders at its meetings. If fact, it never meets. It has no building. The charter members joined on the day of Pentecost and the last new members class will begin shortly before the rapture. Its purpose statement says a whole lot of pushing and shoving should be going on. Not exactly the church you had in mind, is it? Oh, I forgot one thing, the Pastor’s name is Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. It is kind of exclusive; you have to turn everything over to the Pastor when you join. If you hold back anything, your name will not appear in the membership book.
Lets do an inventory and see if you are prepared to turn loose of whatever is blocking your membership.
Are you ready to love other members in the same way that Jesus loved you?
Are you ready to honor other members above yourself?
Are you ready to agree with other members in all non-essential matters?
Are you ready to accept other members, just as Christ accepted you?
Are you ready to bear other members burdens? (Think of the financial implications.)
Are you willing to be as devoted to other members as you are to your family?
Are you willing to be a true friend of other members, admonishing them in love?
Are you ready to encourage and build-up other members? (Think of prayer prep-time)
Are you willing to submit to other members out of reverence for Christ?
Are you willing to be completely humble and gentle with other members?
Are you ready to serve other members in love?
The grading of this test is stiff. In order to score at all, you must be an active member, if you are physically able, in a local assembly of believers. Take it again and again until you score 100%.
References:
Matthew 16:18
Matthew 28:18-20
Matthew 19:16-22
Matthew 25:31-46
John 13:34-35
Romans 12:10
Romans 15:5
Romans 15:7
Galatians 6:2
Romans 15:14
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Ephesians 5:21
Ephesians 4:2
Galatians 5:13
1 Peter 4:10
1 Timothy 3:14-5
2 Corinthians 13:5 -
I will tell you our good reasons for not going to church:
* We are ill. It is best to stay home if one is ill so as to not infect everyone else at church.
* You are away on vacation. In this case, if at all possible, find another place to worship for that Sunday.
* The weather is so frightful!! When we have states of emergency or snow emergencies due to the weather, that means that we are to stay off the roads. I certainly don't want anyone getting injured and sometimes we need to cancel church to keep everyone safe. In this case if you showed up, you'd not be allowed inside since the doors would be locked.
* Ummm - ummmm - Oh! OK - If one of your family members is sick and in need of care. When my daughter was in the hospital, there were Sundays that I didn't make it to church. Also when my kids were younger and someone was sick, I'd stay home with them or when the older girls were big enough, sometimes one of them would stay home with the littles.
* A new mama with a newborn should probably stay home for a few weeks, especially during cold and flu season.
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Earth Wind and Fire Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
It sucks:laugh:
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Earth Wind and Fire Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Do the JW 's that were at my doorstep yesterday....do they count as a church?
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1. You're dead.
2. You're in the hospital.
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Jedi Knight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Earth Wind and Fire Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
They say they are a church:laugh:
....so do the RC 's the 7 Dayers, the Unitarians, the United Methodists....blah blah blah....ha ha ha.......the "Church " ....tah. -
Jedi Knight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Earth Wind and Fire Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Iconoclast Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Earth, Wind & Fire
The bible does not agree with your profane judgement
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righteousdude2 Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
I once met a man who told me he did not attend church because it was filled with hypocrites. I told that man that this was a good thing, to which he was puzzled and asked why I'd say that? I told him that was a good thing because his statement meant he was not a hypocrite, and I needed people who knew what hypocrisy was and professed to not be one themselves.
He visited, and to make things short; he eventually became my associate pastor! Something tells me, once you sort out the pain and forgive those who caused that pain, you'd be a great part of the true church. Who knows, maybe you'd be a pastor some day, too! :thumbs: -
Earth Wind and Fire Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Seriously Dude....this is my call to many of you to be awake. I assure you that the world is no longer believe in church as it is presented today. & they aren't getting them in....why should they.....do people see love there, love that goes out to the homeless and the destitute, to the unemployed, to the millions struggling from day to day to feed and clothed their families?
Their is a longing for churches to become active in the community.....to take Christ out of the church building and show the world a that Christians do indeed touch the flesh, that they see Christ in the least of their bretheren. The world will no longer going to accept a church with their heads firmly planted in the sand....it is tired of their lazy church with dogma.......they are no longer going to believe in these ideas that don't truly transform....but they will believe love. It will believe life truly given and received. -
Crabtownboy Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
The preacher preaches his political agenda and not the message of Christ and/or how to live as a Christian.
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Earth Wind and Fire Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
They just don't go outa their way to reach out....to touch the flesh, to see Christ in the least of the brethren....and there is something terribly wrong with that. We as church shy away from Good Sam activities that display that our hearts are in Christ.....that we can & do love Christ & his creation 'together.'