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1 | Should "lost" people come to church? | Luke 5:31 | Morant61 | 218660 | ||
Greetings Fallen4shell! You have already received a couple of good responses. I would add on quick note. 1 Cor. 14:23-24 indicates that unbelievers were (at least on occasion) present at worship services. I seem to recall a few narrative examples in Acts as well, but I don't have time right now to track them down. :-) I believe that you have a point if we allow our worship service to be watered down so to speak because of the presence of the lost, but I don't believe there is any Scripture that would not allow for evangelism to be part of our worship service. Hopefully though, we don't take the 'fly-paper' approach to evangelism and make the altar call our only form of evangelism. :-) Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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2 | Should "lost" people come to church? | Luke 5:31 | fallen4shell | 218725 | ||
Thank you, Tim, for your response. I don't interpret 1 Cor. 14:23-24 to mean that there were actually unbelievers participating in worship. Paul seems to be posing a hypothetical scenario saying in effect "if someone saw us doing this who didn't know what it is all about they would think we were crazy!". In my mind this actually seems to imply the opposite truth to what you have suggested, namely that unbeliever had no understanding (nor were they expected to) of what when on among these meetings of believers. |
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