I don’t remember God commanding us to go to CHURCH, but yes to fellowship together. Church made sense for that. I submit that a good Bible preaching church is harder to find now that we are awake to the schemes of the devil and how he has used and abused pastors from the pulpit. I wish we could find a good truth speaking bible based teac…
I don’t remember God commanding us to go to CHURCH, but yes to fellowship together. Church made sense for that. I submit that a good Bible preaching church is harder to find now that we are awake to the schemes of the devil and how he has used and abused pastors from the pulpit. I wish we could find a good truth speaking bible based teaching church in our area but we have come up empty. We are left to fend for ourselves online - but have found a spot in Cornerstone Chapel out of Virginia. We lack the fellowship God talks about in person, but we have friends and family that are like minded and Christian in real life walking with Jesus that we get to hang out and have quality time together when they come visit. It’s not often enough but we cherish it when we have it. Until God leads us to an in person church we do the best we can.
Hi Sunnydaze, I urge you to consider Aloha50's comment above as it's very well stated and much more clearly and compassionately laid out than what I said. God commands us to fellowship because He knows it's good for our soul.
You are absolutely right in that the command is to fellowship (not sit in a building called a church) but that means learning about, praising, and worshipping God together with other Christians. As Aloha so well put it above, it's key to our spiritual growth.
If you like Pastor Gary's at Cornerstones heart and teaching I'd suggest you check out a Calvary Chapel in your area. Cornerstone is part of the Calvary Chapel movement and most of these pastors trained under Chuck Smith who taught them to teach the Bible this way in a kind but uncompromising fashion. I can't vouch for them all of course, but the overwhelming majority are solid Bible churches led by men that love the Lord and emphasize fellowship.
Many of them don't have "Calvary Chapel" in the church's name but are still affiliated with the movement.
Hebrews 10: 23Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. 24Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. 25And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
25And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
I know what the Bible says. I don’t see God “commanding” us to go to church though. I see a commandment of thou shalt not kill. There’s a difference in that statement. It is a command. “Not neglecting meeting together” has a different tone and is not made as a command.
I don’t remember God commanding us to go to CHURCH, but yes to fellowship together. Church made sense for that. I submit that a good Bible preaching church is harder to find now that we are awake to the schemes of the devil and how he has used and abused pastors from the pulpit. I wish we could find a good truth speaking bible based teaching church in our area but we have come up empty. We are left to fend for ourselves online - but have found a spot in Cornerstone Chapel out of Virginia. We lack the fellowship God talks about in person, but we have friends and family that are like minded and Christian in real life walking with Jesus that we get to hang out and have quality time together when they come visit. It’s not often enough but we cherish it when we have it. Until God leads us to an in person church we do the best we can.
Hi Sunnydaze, I urge you to consider Aloha50's comment above as it's very well stated and much more clearly and compassionately laid out than what I said. God commands us to fellowship because He knows it's good for our soul.
You are absolutely right in that the command is to fellowship (not sit in a building called a church) but that means learning about, praising, and worshipping God together with other Christians. As Aloha so well put it above, it's key to our spiritual growth.
If you like Pastor Gary's at Cornerstones heart and teaching I'd suggest you check out a Calvary Chapel in your area. Cornerstone is part of the Calvary Chapel movement and most of these pastors trained under Chuck Smith who taught them to teach the Bible this way in a kind but uncompromising fashion. I can't vouch for them all of course, but the overwhelming majority are solid Bible churches led by men that love the Lord and emphasize fellowship.
Many of them don't have "Calvary Chapel" in the church's name but are still affiliated with the movement.
https://calvarychapel.com/church-locator/
https://calvarycca.org/churches/
Hebrews 10: 23Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. 24Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. 25And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
25And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
I know what the Bible says. I don’t see God “commanding” us to go to church though. I see a commandment of thou shalt not kill. There’s a difference in that statement. It is a command. “Not neglecting meeting together” has a different tone and is not made as a command.