Can a person be a Christian and not attend church?
What is everyone's thoughts on this subject?
Can a person be a Christian and not attend church?What is everyone's thoughts on this subject?
Everytime I get on this site I'm at church with my brothers and sisters
Can a person be a Christian and not attend church?What is everyone's thoughts on this subject?
can a person be a christian and not want to attend church??
I don't see how.
I feel the same way. The truth is, where ever we are, the 'church' is there. Belonging to Christ makes us a member of "the Church", not as in some building (the believer is the "building of the Lord"), and not even as those who trust in some form of religious identity with a certain denomination's charter or rules (yuck!), however 'biblical' it may be.
A while back someone really got on a brother here for not saying what building/ church/ denomination he was a part of. I hope this thread doesn't go down that route again.
We need to agree with our Lord over the prayer in John 17.
It is only because we are one (body) in Christ that the world will see and get "the message".
John 17:21
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
This is just me here, I need church, I love fellowshipping with my brothers and sisters in Christ. I love mens group as well. I am not that mature yet in my walk with the Lord and when I miss church, the old man inside makes a strong attempt to come back.
Can a person be a christian and not attend church, I believe they can, but what a battle it would be to hang on. Just my opinion.
Fellowship with other,more "mature" Christians is vitally important for a new believer - wherever that may occur.The fact that I neglected to "plug in" to a discipling church after I was saved at 21 sent me down a very hard road.By the grace of God,I survived that,and I consider warning others about that mistake to be part of my duty as a believer.
So what happens if you can't find a church that is teaching Bible based doctrines ?
Isn't that also taught, not to gather with such ?
My problem these daysSo what happens if you can't find a church that is teaching Bible based doctrines ?
Isn't that also taught, not to gather with such ?
Being a Christian that purposely choses to not associate with a family of other Christians for the pupose of growth, fellowship, conducting work of the church, praying together, taking the Lord's supper on the Lord's day, is completely foreign to establishment of the physical church upon the earth.
It would be as being a lifeguard but hating the water.
Being in church won't save you, but refusing church speaks volume about you.
1Cor 11:18 For first of all, when you come together as a church