What Is A Church Meeting Supposed to Be For?

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What is a Church meeting supposed to be for?

  • To listen to good music and have fun

    Votes: 1 20.0%
  • To listen to representatives of other religons come in to speak of how to be religious

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • To join in worship and hear The Gospel only.

    Votes: 1 20.0%
  • To listen to the preacher talk about his Aunt Edna.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • To join in worship and learn all The Word of God with understanding.

    Votes: 5 100.0%
  • To fall backwards in the floor, get up, and do it again.

    Votes: 1 20.0%
  • To have a dinner social and build the Church float

    Votes: 1 20.0%
  • To have an esctatic mystical experience.

    Votes: 2 40.0%

  • Total voters
    5

Shirley

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My spirit is uplifted as I read these posts here! A body works together in everything that the Holy Spirit is doing among them. I might just be taking a meal to someone. I might stay home and pray for someone. I might bring in a lost person and know that all my brothers and sisters are going to love that person and pray for them, be patient with them, teach them Gods word correctly allowing the Holy Spirit to convict them of their sin when they see the love we have for each other and for them. I also hope we can all work as a body on this site!

With love, Sister Shirley
 
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Prentis

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Amen Shirley! Indeed, if a body is to operate in the Spirit of the Lord, it most likely won't be recognized by the world. The Spirit comes and goes as he wishes, and he does what he wishes. Man has systemized the work of God, giving a semblance of it, but without the actual work of God.

I agree Big Picture, with what you say about fathers. Paul says to those he brought to Christ he is their father in Christ. It's an image. The modern 'church' has built a system in which there is no accountability and no father-to-son as there was with Jesus and the Apostles, the Apostles and the brothers, etc.

We must go back to what our Lord taught us and walk in the old paths.
 

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Christ's church operating is not a thing of my words.

Well actually, that is the very kind of idea you used in your previous post... the idea of how Churches operate...

You said:
"Is the church today operating in spiritual gifts, and is it led of the Holy Spirit? Mostly, the church is led by money (mammon), hierarchy, which goes directly against the teachings of Jesus, and one pet doctrine."

It's obvious that you're raising concern over 'how' the Church is 'operating', either with spiritual gifts or by "mammon". Thus my question to you of how YOU think it SHOULD operate.

Christ's church operates in the Spirit. How can I tell you how it's supposed to operate, when every church might operate differently (as far as appearance) because that part of the body has different gifts and men in it? The 'rule' is that it must operate by the Spirit. What it looks like? You cannot put a pattern on it.

But God DID put a 'pattern' on how we are to worship Him through His Son in His Church, and Apostle Paul covered it in his Epistles. Have you not read that Scripture?


If you want a few simple things though:
-The church is led by men who, elders, who are wise and seasoned, as far as learning of and walking in the Spirit. In the modern church, it's all about a formal education. What did the Pharisees say about John and Peter? They have never been educated, yet they have been with Jesus. Today's church is led by men who HAVE been educated, and haven't really been with Jesus.
-Paul says that when we come together all may exercise their gifts, bring a song, a teaching, etc. Today's church has ordained people bringing songs, an ordained pastor bringing a teaching, and a crowd who is only there to sit through it.
-Paul said that when a prophet speaks, the rest of the prophets discern what he says. The church doesn't have 'prophets', it has one teacher or pastor.

It should operate in the truth, walking in what God has commanded.


Christ's Church is led by Him by The Holy Spirit through... men, those whom He called. And it is very much includes learning in God's Word (Scripture)...

John 2:22
22 When therefore He was risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
(KJV)


Luke 24:44-45
44 And He said unto them, "These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning Me.
45 Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
(KJV)

If THAT is not about 'education' in The Word of God, then I don't know what else it would be.

Suppositions of men that Christ's disciples were all poor and unlearned in The Scriptures is nothing but a vain tradition of men. There's no Biblical evidence to show that Christ's Apostles were illiterate of Old Testament Scripture. Luke himself was a doctor, a field even then that required being learned.

The main point of that Luke 24 Scripture above is that our Lord Jesus made SURE His disciples were learned in Scripture in order to fulfill their ministries He had given them to take The Gospel to the nations. By our Lord Jesus choosing Apostle Paul, who was a Hebrew scholar in the Old Testament (the only Scripture written of that day), and that Paul would write the majority of the New Testament Books ought to be another lesson of how our Lord Jesus values being disciplined in His Word!

I don't know what child of darkness has put into your mind Prentis that the idea of 'learning' in God's Word means the same thing as what the blind Pharisees were doing, but that's apparently the idea they've put into your mind.

Did you know that in the early American colonies, Christ's Church is how the universities in the U.S. got started? Most of the oldest universities in the U.S. were founded by The Church.

If you took more time to study you might discover the main reason for so many divisions within Christ's Body is because of a 'lack' of education in God's Word with discipline. Paul said to study to show yourself approved of God, a workman who need not be ashamed, rightly dividing The Word of Truth (2 Tim.2:15). And as long as Christ Jesus calls servants that will do that, that's why they will continue to stand in front of His congregations to preach and teach His Word, while those like yourself won't be.
 

Prentis

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Yes, like the word says; "He who has gone to my seminary, he shall lord it over you and prepare sermons in advance'

Not!

The Apostles taught that we must be led by the Spirit, and yet we've got a church full of man made doctrines, and we're going to call that operating in the Spirit? It doesn't say 'unity of the word' but 'unity of the Spirit'. It's good to learn God's word, but if you are taught the word in a way to make it fit man's doctrine, that's not good.

Paul, in 1 Cor. 12:1 and all the way through to 14, tells us we should operate by the spirit, and that when we gater each should bring something. Does God only speak to one man, so he can speak to the rest, or are we a 'nation of priests'? Does the whole body function?

The biblicale principle is that God chooses. It says that when Paul and Barnabas were chosen to be sent to the Gentiles the Holy Spirit spoke. In today's church, men come together, make a strategy according to the understanding of man, and it ends there.

Are we like the first church, led of the Spirit?
 

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I go because I enjoy it. I enjoy worshiping God and reconnecting with the Body of Christ through the sharing love and partaking of the Eucharist.