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One of the aspects of the NT Church was its support for widows, orphans, and the needy. I take my cue from this and most of my giving supports ministries that are doing the same thing. Ministries where the only income people have is what that ministry gives them.

Tithing is taught because the leadership has to finance a church that is not the church. In the NT there were no buildings or pastors to pay for. Everyone did what they did because they loved one another. They did not need to be paid to do that. And the leadership of the church. apostles...

Quite right. it wasn't about money

Teaching the Bible verse by verse was not practiced in the New Testament Church for the simple reason there was no New Testament. That came much later when the church had already gone astray. Most of the teaching in the New Testament Church was what Jesus said and did. Because church leadership...

Bother you need to learn how to present an issue without sending people to sleep.

Brother, you need to lear

I find it naive and stupid how so-called Christians believe the trite claims of what is Satan's infiltration OF THE CHURCH. I don't know how long that church has been in operation but I would like to know if anyone attended for however many years have found that to be the case, and people are...

I did but you obviously missed it.

I am referring to what you said.

You are a laugh a minute. Didn't I tell you that they didn't teach Russian at my school? They taught Swahili.

About three years ago I decided to investigate the background of the NTC. I read anything I could lay my hands on that explained the life they lived and the things they did. Such as The World Christ Knew and Spiritual life in the Early Church. All in all I probably read about 20 books. From...

I really believe that there are a lot of people born gay. What I don't believe is that people are born homosexual.

Man, that cat and little baby are really into it BIG TIME!!

Overall an excellent post. By the sound of things you have read Joel Comiskey's book on the subject.

This is my impression but I may be wrong. It seems to me that pastors do not want you to dig, in case you end up knowing more than they do. Although I have four degrees one of which is theological and one which included theological studies, I am never asked to teach even though the pastor has no...

My bible says they went as a body to the temple (no mention of 10,000 which is not surprising as 3,000 were saved) BUT met in houses for meals, sharing their FOOD gladly and generously. Acts 2 v 47/48. Why did they go to the temple? Simple. Because they were Jews and did not stop being Jews...

All early churches were house churches as they had not built anything with bricks and mortar. The scripture is clear they went from house to house, not building to building and as the NTC started with 3,000 believers the only way they could accommodate such an instantaneous number was to meet in...

If you read Acts 2 v 48 you will notice that the NTC did not sing anything. They fellowshipped; they prayed; had meals together; and taught each other. I did read somewhere they sang a hymn before they left their time together. Nowhere does it say they started a meeting with 30 minutes of...

Personally, I don't see anywhere in scripture where the NTC went through scripture verse by verse. probably because the scriptures did not exist. Teaching was mainly verbal by those who had something to say because they were anointed by God to have something to say. Most teaching was about the...

Thankyou for your red herring.