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1 | How important is your Church? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 29053 | ||
Church membership and salvation are not viewed by Scripture as being two entities; they are one and the same. We can no more join a church than we can save ourselves. When a person is saved, he doesn't have an option of whether to "join" a church. God adds him to the church (Acts 2:47), the body of Christ (Eph.1:23). The church was purchased by the blood of Christ (Acts 20:28; Eph. 5:25). Every regenerate believer belongs to the body of Christ, the church. Therefore, it is totally inconsistent with Scripture for a regenerate believer to say, "I'm a Christian but I'm not a member of the church." It is impossible to rate the importance of the church in our lives without at the same time rating the importance of Christ in our lives. It is equally impossible to be saved without being a member of Christ's church. There exist today, as they have existed for some 2,000 years, groups that call themselves churches that bear little, if any, resemblance to the church that Christ died for. It is quite possible to become a member of these counterfeit organizations and not be saved. These we join on our own. God does not add us to them. They deserve to be rated "zero" on our scale of importance and avoided as the deceivers they are. --Hank | ||||||
2 | Church attendance not required | Bible general Archive 1 | sandre | 29144 | ||
I am mostly homebound so do not get to church ofen at all. Can't I still consider myself a Christian without the actual church attendance? So many places it says believe in Jesus and believe that he died for our sins and you will be saved. This seems to go back to the arguement about whether faith or works contribute to salvation. In my mind, its faith. Maybe this is too simplistic, but its what I believe. |
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3 | Church attendance not required | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 29147 | ||
Sandre, thanks for your post and I'll attempt a response to your question. You asked whether you, being a home-bound person, can still consider yourself to be a Christian without attending church regularly. If anyone is indeed a Christian, he is a Christian because Christ saved him by grace through faith, not because of the number of times he may have attended a church service. Church attendance is not salvific; the Bible never says that. If it were, it would go back to the unscriptural teaching that salvation is of works, as you refer to in your post..... God never asks us to do the impossible. Jesus never asked the lame to walk until after He had healed them. If you are home bound, you can still have fellowship with God, and I would feel, having read your post, that you surely do. May the Lord bless you richly. --Hank | ||||||