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Local church is safe place , a base to resupply and train the attackers who are destroying Satan's kingdom by preaching the gospel .
You plant a base and destroy it from the inside .
I agree. I want to do well in personal witnessing as well as being of use within the church walls.Yes, as also written, "love (God's Way Obediently, by the will (not feelings nor emotions but A CHOICE WILLINGLY) )
hopes for the best, and we all hope wherever we are, even (or especially) at the grocery store or laundromat as well as at 'church' ,
will be helpful towards and in Christ for each person who hears us and who sees us.
I guess one really can't argue with this.The church, in respect of it being the cumulative believers in Christ as their Lord and Savior... is the collective physical hands and feet of Christ, here on earth.
The church carries out the work of God on earth and His will until He returns.
What about Monday?Mainly, it's to get our spirit in line with God which is a straight line perpendicular to where one stands as represented by the long bar of the cross. It shows that we are going in the right direction. Otherwise, one can "think" they are going in the perpendicular direction, but a minute degree off and they can be far off the path in a short amount of time.
For me, it gets me out of the house early Sunday and gives me chance to learn about the Bible, worship God and help do the church's works. Maybe that's what help align us in the right direction.
Our last pastor played a fair guitar.The purpose of the church is to sit in the pews and be entertained by the few up front who do the entertaining. sarcasm
How about friendship?Without looking at the other responses I would say to administer the sacraments and to primarily administer the Holy Eucharist.
It is helpful when they actually preach the gospel.Local church is safe place , a base to resupply and train the attackers who are destroying Satan's kingdom by preaching the gospel .
You plant a base and destroy it from the inside .
Church leaders many times lead their congregations astray, I believe.Ekklesia always speak the truth.
Members of churches, any church, do not.
What about the prideful? It seems to me they are the ones most responsible for hijacking the churches.James 4:4 You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the ...
https://biblehub.com/james/4-4.htm
Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world's friend makes himself God's enemy.
What about the prideful? It seems to me they are the ones most responsible for hijacking the churches.
I think that is one of the most important aspects of church.What about it?
But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in. Matt 23:13 RSVDoes it matter?
Is it written ?
I think that is one of the most important aspects of church.
The Lord and my church keep me from getting lonely.The church is not there to be friends, to entertain, to whatever evangelicals think the church should be. The church is there to disperse the sacraments to the faithful. Can people become friends at church, of course but in my opinion the church is not there for such things.
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