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Mind you, I am not saying that we ought not to attend Sunday church services. What I am saying is that one cannot neglect the weightier matter of fellowship with other believers. This is something that one can't get from a Sunday service.
I agree. Such fellowship is vital to our continued wellbeing.
I suggest you judge your brothers and sisters a little less harshly, PJ.
I didn't judge anybody. I simply stated my experience. I'm sorry my experiences don't meet with your approval, but for somebody who says I shouldn't judge harshly (when I never did judge in the first place), you sure are judging me harshly.
What I am saying is that one cannot neglect the weightier matter of fellowship with other believers. This is something that one can't get from a Sunday service.
You can't get fellowship with other believers from a Sunday service? What in the world kind of church are you going to? Every church I've ever known had fellowship with other believers on Sunday morning.
I didn't judge anybody. I simply stated my experience. I'm sorry my experiences don't meet with your approval, but for somebody who says I shouldn't judge harshly (when I never did judge in the first place), you sure are judging me harshly.
Is that all you saw?
For someone with 'pastor' in your name, you appear rather lacking in compassion.
You can't get fellowship with other believers from a Sunday service? What in the world kind of church are you going to? Every church I've ever known had fellowship with other believers on Sunday morning.
Perhaps it would be more appropriate to say that the fellowship that is available during a Sunday service is limited. The churches that I've been a part of in the past, and my current church, are rather large. Certainly believers talk to each other before and after the service. Is this fellowship? The Bible describes fellowship in terms of stirring one another to love and good works, and encouraging one another (Hebrews 10:24-25). Especially in larger churches, this is the sort of thing that typically happens in a small group setting rather than during a worship service.
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__________________ The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?"
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For someone with 'pastor' in your name, you appear rather lacking in compassion.
Good luck with that.
No, that isn't all I saw. I saw your comments, which I assume mean that you have some sort of a disability. I sympathize with you, but if only you had asked me to clarify what I meant, rather than assume I was attacking you, you would know, as does everybody else who read my post, that I'm talking about people who are able to attend church, but refuse to, not those who do want to, but can't attend for whatever reason, such as illness.
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