Can you be saved and not attend "Church"

[seekerman]

Originally Posted by trialedbyfire

Ugh.. I guess Paul and the Apostles established churches with Elders and Deacons for no reason. It was just a waist of time. All that work for nothing. smh

Actually, Paul and the Apostles never established a church. There's only one church established and it wasn't some building folks like to call a 'church'.

Israel had leadership they had to obey and organization as a religion. New Testament Christianity was designed to have well-established leadership, order, protocol, and organized. I'm sorry if you don't like organized religion, because that's what Biblical Christianity is, organized religion, and it's more intellectually honest just to forsake Christianity rather than try to argue that in it's "purest form" it was not "organized religion".

Of course it was organized. What it wasn't was the multi-billion dollar business with folks serving buildings and looking at a man as some sort of mediator between God and man.