MTD, you do make a good point that sometimes not enough is being taught in local churches. That still doesn't make Bible colleges wrong or some sort of affront to the NT.
Well said sir.
Balance is key.
Imbalanced views of scripture can lead to [and has led to] all kinds of erroneous teachings.
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the disciples went to the synagogue and evidence suggests that the early Jewish Christians met there.
Paul preached in public (not in a house)
Peter and Paul met a large group of people (clearly not a house) when they followed Philip to Samaria.
while Paul was preaching someone fell out of a window and died. not likely to be some small "House group"
so all this talk about the early church not having meeting places for larger groups of people (like churches) is a bunch of bunk.
Look, you guys that want to have house church, that's fine by me. go for it. I don't care how you meet, so long as you meet, so long as you have pastoral authority in your life, so long as you are both giving and receiving truth.
Just dont act like "church" in the modern sense is somehow anti-biblical or somehow, not the method God intended.
hog wash!
I feel better.
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the disciples went to the synagogue and evidence suggests that the early Jewish Christians met there.
Paul preached in public (not in a house)
Peter and Paul met a large group of people (clearly not a house) when they followed Philip to Samaria.
while Paul was preaching someone fell out of a window and died. not likely to be some small "House group"
so all this talk about the early church not having meeting places for larger groups of people (like churches) is a bunch of bunk.
Look, you guys that want to have house church, that's fine by me. go for it. I don't care how you meet, so long as you meet, so long as you have pastoral authority in your life, so long as you are both giving and receiving truth.
Just dont act like "church" in the modern sense is somehow anti-biblical or somehow, not the method God intended.
hog wash!
I feel better.
I hear ya. I envision a sort of hybrid for myself and my family. We'd like to make these home meetings a regular thing, and include visiting churches when finances will allow. I certainly do not think it needs to be an either/or type of situation.
Hybrid Mode
