P1LGR1M said: ↑
Do the things you list above have no real value?
I don't even know how you can ask that as though it were a genuine Christian. Not only do they have real value, they are central to what it means to be a Christian. Apart from Christ we are lost.
As though what is a genuine Christian?
We cannot remain in Christ except we receive remission (and multiple ways were stated as to how that is accomplished), remain going to church, and partake of Communion?
If we stop doing those things we are cut off from Christ?
I'm sorry, but that sounds an awful lot like box-checking to me.
I know, speaking personally, when there have been times where I've had prolonged absence I can literally feel the absence. My soul is parched, I hunger and thirst for God's word, I yearn for the Lord's Supper. I hungrily yearn for His mercy and forgiveness. Apart from these things my flesh is bolstered, the old man seeks to dominate; for I am weak and without strength of myself. It is only in Christ, Christ and only in Christ, that I have life of any kind.
I agree, but what you are describing is not being in Christ, it is being in the Church.
Regular fellowship is important in a number of ways such as being a place where we can express our worship, sing unto the Lord, give offerings for the furtherance of the Kingdom, love other believers, and it gives an accountability that we don't have when we lone ranger it.
But it doesn't keep us in Christ, my friend.
If you are trusting in your church attendance to remain in Christ then you are trusting in the wrong Source for Eternal Life.
God bless.
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