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NASB | Luke 5:31 And Jesus answered and said to them, "It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 5:31 And Jesus replied to them, "It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but [only] those who are sick. |
Bible Question:
Thank you, Searcher, for your input. "Every knee will bow." YES! praise God this is a great and awsome truth! I couldn't agree more that this is an act of worship...but if a person bow their knee before the Father are they classified as an unbeliever? Also, there is still no mention in any of those verses of such conversion taking place within the context of a meeting of [those who are already] believers. As for Romans 10:13-15 it seems abundantly clear to me through those verses (and many, many others) that God expects us to GO OUT and preach the gospel...there seems to be no mention anywhere that I can find about gathering up lost people and BRINGING THEM TO the preacher to hear or BRINGING THEM TO meetings of believers who have gathered to worship the God they have already been saved by. I agree wholeheartedly that we cannot rely (nor should we) on people coming to church. Christ, indeed, has instructed us to let our light SHINE OUT INTO DARK PLACES! Did Christ instruct us to try and get everyone to come join us under the bushel so that they, too, can see the light? I would submit that our focus should be to take our light OUTSIDE the "four walls" and let it shine throughout ALL THE EARTH. Thus, back to my original question....where in scripture do we see any support for this notion that we should be trying to get lost people to come back and join us "inside the four walls"? |
Bible Answer: Fallen4shell, You ask a valid question and I tend to somewhat lean your way. But in light of Jn 5:35,36 Jn 15:13 Jesus makes it very plain that as disciples of His we have a vast field of people looking for what we have and we gotta have the heart to lay our lives down for people. Our whole mission is to make disciples. Mtt 28:18-20. As we involve ourselves in the lives of people that God brings to us eventually we will get em to church. We wanna take as many folks with us as we can. In Him, lionheart |