Church
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
"Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple."
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Knowing and reading the word of God changed my views from what is mostly accepted belief of the basic characteristics of a church.
The church is us, our bodies of those who believe. Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. The churches we see today are mainly building structures for fellowship as what we were all taught from the beginning. A church is not a huge organization, operatting in a manner of business-like dynamics, hiring preachers and pastors to man the units, like managers of shops as we see today. Building many structures costing millions, for what. Money collections should be given to the most needy, not expansion through making many buildings and recruiting believers boosting up donations. Did Jesus did that in his days? Did the Apostles did such things?No. So why follow the idea spooned on us at latter times.
From this knowledge, I run away from organized religion. I never attend organized church service for a long time. I'm not saying this is right. Believers need to fellowship and share faith and encourage to one another. It doesn't need to be in a huge great buildings, it could be in a smaller group of people or fellowship as it was in the early days.
Preachers should be God-ordained, not man-ordained. The idea of hiring preachers is way out of the faith. It's should be through a divine calling and voluntary, not by man's appointment on one, based on qualification level judged in the current system of the faith by Pharisees. What has been will be again, as the Divine book warned us.
Are we not seeing the falling away too huge? Churches made as community clubs and creche. Churches celebrating halloween, and all paganism with so many excuses. True falling away or the apostacy has been for many decades even time before I was born, it's already creeping in. But so much more we see today on our faces. Rebellion of against the most high in masse.
Church
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
"Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple."
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Knowing and reading the word of God changed my views from what is mostly accepted belief of the basic characteristics of a church.
The church is us, our bodies of those who believe. Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. The churches we see today are mainly building structures for fellowship as what we were all taught from the beginning. A church is not a huge organization, operatting in a manner of business-like dynamics, hiring preachers and pastors to man the units, like managers of shops as we see today. Building many structures costing millions, for what. Money collections should be given to the most needy, not expansion through making many buildings and recruiting believers boosting up donations. Did Jesus did that in his days? Did the Apostles did such things?No. So why follow the idea spooned on us at latter times.
From this knowledge, I run away from organized religion. I never attend organized church service for a long time. I'm not saying this is right. Believers need to fellowship and share faith and encourage to one another. It doesn't need to be in a huge great buildings, it could be in a smaller group of people or fellowship as it was in the early days.
Preachers should be God-ordained, not man-ordained. The idea of hiring preachers is way out of the faith. It's should be through a divine calling and voluntary, not by man's appointment on one, based on qualification level judged in the current system of the faith by Pharisees. What has been will be again, as the Divine book warned us.
Are we not seeing the falling away too huge? Churches made as community clubs and creche. Churches celebrating halloween, and all paganism with so many excuses. True falling away or the apostacy has been for many decades even time before I was born, it's already creeping in. But so much more we see today on our faces. Rebellion of against the most high in masse.