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Re: why do you like church buildings for meetings?
My house doesn't hold 120 people. Not comfortably, anyway. Not sitting. It definitely wouldn't hold 3000. The upper room may have been a place where someone lived (debatable), but it was fairly large--not at all like today's concept of "house church" with a very small group in a relatively small house.
I'm not anti-house-church. I like the idea in some ways, and I like intimate worship settings. However, I am anti-anti-big-church-building. I don't see anything in scripture that condemns large gatherings of believers. Ergo, I have a problem with any believer who condemns Christians for the size of their buildings or congregations. Christianity isn't a cookie-cutter religion. What works in one culture, country, community or century may not work in another. No matter, because God didn't lay out a cookie cutter method for the church to propagate the Gospel.
Furthermore, the same way that people can get stuck in the rut of traditional church, people can get stuck in the rut of opposing the status quo just for the sake of it. That isn't productive, either.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Last edited by MissBrattified; 10-01-2013 at 05:29 PM.
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