Is it necessary to be a part of a Christian Church to be saved?
I've been doing a lot of reading lately, and one of the new things that I learned while reading is about Christian Mysticism.
Sometime in the late medieval period, a group of non church-going Christians came to be known as Christian Mystics. Christian Mystics are Christians who avoid the church and worship God by silent contemplation and private communion...
This got me thinking, maybe we don't need the church after all. Maybe all we need is a personal relationship with God and it will be enough.
What do you think?
Thank you.
1. No my evangelist of my church for example got saved at home and my assistant head pastor got saved in his car. SO salvation can be done independent of a church.
2. However, the bible makes it clear that you should be operating if possible with a group of believers with different gifts and abilities and learning more and seeking council and growing...and the best place for that tends to be a church. A church tends to have a collective of individuals with varying gifts in one place at once time. A church is also the best place to get refilling, encouraging messages straight from God, learning how to be holy, and sanctification.
Hebrews 10:25King James Version (KJV)
25
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Romans 12:
4 For as we have many
members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
5 So
we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
3. The original pastor of FGHT dallas for example was self learned through God but eventually he ended up becoming a pastor of a church. He learned on his own with his own bible but he was led to as he did this eventually
start an assembly of believers at his own house. And eventually move into a church building.
4. I know people that live in areas where there aren't true churches around but they at least
watch live streams of churches and bible studies online.
Conclusion: To answer your question if you don't have a true church around then sure alone time is best, but eventually God will make a way for you to move and become part of a church body because that's what he wants us to do. HE doesn't want you to remain isolated, iron sharpens iron after all. However, will you go to hell for just being saved and then studying at your house? No unless God commanded you again and again to attend a certain church that's available in your area, and you ignored the call and things happened as a result of the disobedience then that's different.