Originally posted by kirksey957
How is it that you two, the most fervent defenders of Christianity on the site, do not go to church? Are you not missing out on a place of worship and ministry outreach?
Please, no excuses. Our Lord said "whoever takes hold of the plough and looks homeward is not worthy."
"Are you not missing out on a place of worship and ministry outreach?
What makes you think I don't fellowship with brothers and sisters? I said I don't go to church, I didn't say I didn't fellowship. I don't believe you have to go to a "church" to fellowship. Jesus never went to "church". He said WE were the church. Going to church dosn't make you a christian, same as going to McDonalds don't make you a burger.
Here, where I live, there is no church that fallows the Bible and don't teach lies. Every one of the churches here teaches you have to 'accept' the Lord, or 'choose' Jesus. The Bible never teaches such a thing. Nor does it teach the sinners prayer, or "God hates the sin, but loves the sinner". I am not going to partake of any of those so called 'Christian' churches.
I also have other reasons I do not attend a church. I believe the Lord has called all his people out of them and is no longer working in them.
II Thessalonians 2:3-4 "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
Revelation 18:2-8 "And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is
become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart,
I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her."
All that is in bold is what I see in the so called churches today. Granted there may be a few, like the one talked about in Rev. 3:7-8, that have not done these things, however I have not found one anywhere here in my area.