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1 | Purpose of attending church? | Acts 2:45 | Reighnskye | 130518 | ||
I largely view church buildings as more of a modern age thing, insofar as the early church moreso met in houses. A mere secularization in my estimation. The members of the early church from Acts 2:45 did not so much meet in a building, but rather sold all of their possessions and lived together communally. Of course, we tend to be so departed from this concept today, that we would likely label it as a heretical cult, if anyone actually attempted to practice it today. | ||||||
2 | Purpose of attending church? | Acts 2:45 | DocTrinsograce | 130543 | ||
Everyone takes the first century church as a model of churchly perfection. Whereas it is true that God was establishing His church with unprecedented manifestations of power, we must not read more into it than we ought. The church was immature, and had every kind of problem we face today, as evidenced by the epistles. Furthermore, the church always works within the context of a culture. Cultures are, because they are men's creations, tainted with sin. Nevertheless, many cultural "norms" are not in and of themselves immoral or inexpedient. We have a rich, occidental culture. In Acts 2 they were members of a poor, semitic culture. These differences along with all of our (and their) complex histories, would cause something like communal living to strike us each in different ways. |
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