Freebase...are you familiar with what Jesus did regarding his fathers place of worship when many turned it into a flea market?
Are you also familiar with what Jesus called the Pharisees regarding TRUE worship?
Are you familiar also that Jesus said,"I have made your name known.The only TRUE God and the one you sent forth Jesus Christ"
So now what do we learn by that?
Obviously Jesus father temple was sacred.
The Pharisees taught mens or satanic doctrines.
And God has a personal name...just like we do.
Psalms 83:18 if you need to see it KJV
its not what i need to learn because i already know that & thats not a reason on to going to. IM NOT A CHILD and i don't need to learn. The point is its a choice not a demand to go.
The Bible does say to assemble yourselves together. But like I said before, there are people in church every Sunday that are going to be in Hell. And people who never go to church that will be in Heaven. It is about having a relationship with Jesus Christ. Having Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. Not going to a building. I use to go to a church where the preacher says almost every Sunday that 90% of our county is not in church on Sunday. He has also preached about people who he saw, for example, mowing their yard on Sunday morning. They need to be in church. My response is this : YOU yourself have actually ran people out of the church. People who disagreed with you or that you just did not want to come here. He even told more than one person it would be best if they found somewhere else to go. He had a posse that if he himself could not run someone off that would do things including just going up to the person and telling them to leave. Sounds absurd but it is the truth. It's been several years since I have been at that church. I have visited a couple of places but that is about it. Anyway, the point is, I do not think anyone should judge you or anyone else because they are not in church. Even if they are not working. You do not know other people's lives or what they have been thru. I know a woman who had to use a walker to walk. She always sat about half way up on the end of a pew. The preachers wife told her if she was going to keep coming she needed to set on the back row because that walker was in the way. The woman left and she never came back. I did not find this out til after I quit going. So, to the people who want to condemn others for not being in church on Sunday I would say "stand back and look in the mirror and ask yourself if YOU are the reason someone is not there". * Not YOU personally, but the person condemning me for not being there* lol.
Anyway, I agree with you. These days churches are so corrupt and evil and seem to have forgotten the real reason for being there. But that is okay. I do not answer for them and they do not answer for me.
I just don't understand how someone can leave church and go to a restaurant and eat and curse the waiter or cashier because things are moving too slowly.