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Originally Posted by Praxeas
What does one have to do with the other?
If you have a strong personal relationship with Jesus why WOULDN'T you want more church?
Is the need us? Or is it the hungry and the thirsty that are looking for God or maybe those that are weak in their "personal relationship" with Jesus Christ and need a lift.
Why do we see "church" always about what WE can get out of it and not rather what we can GIVE to our fellow brothers and sisters or to a sinner that might be visiting?
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Really good question, Prax........when someone says "I need to go to church more" it indicates to me that they are going for their own benefit. Nothing wrong with that, but you and I both know that the percentage of sinners IN the church is FAR less than the percentage outside of it.
How much emphasis is placed on going out into the world and reaching the lost?
Go thru the Bible and tell me how many times you find Jesus going to church. And when he did, he preached at the hypocrites, for the most part.
The majority of his time was spent walking thru the cities and villages, healing the sick, raising the dead, forgiving the sinner......
In our society, church has for the most part become a social experience, and we see the same faces, hear the same songs, hear the same messages preached, and we leave saying "Wow, that was awesome, I feel so much better". And, then we do it all again. And again.
So, when someone says "I need to go to church more" it just makes me wonder if they need the group support to keep reminding themselves that they can "hold out until Jesus comes".
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