Yes, of course.
And I'm not against Christian education.
I just think it's odd that the church says they need to "teach us what we believe."
In reality they are teaching us what THEY believe.
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I think we all do it.
I never really was a member of any denomination. I tried a few different ones, but I kept getting moved along.
I don't know how I feel about "churches" in general.
In the book of Acts the churches were the peoples homes. There you had the heirarchy of Father, Mother, Children, even grandparents.
And the disciples would go from house to house sharing the good news. Each house was it's own "church" .
In the OT and I believe in the NT there were occasions where the people as a whole would come together and be partakers of the feast days as stated in the OT. Paul said on one occasion that he must keep the feast in Jerusalem. He also made tents and I believe that was for
the feast of tabernacles. The Old was still waning to usher in the New.
I'm sure the transition wasn't easy. To explain those tents are our tabernacle, they represent our body which the Spirit of God resides in.
They must of thought Paul was mad. What are you talking about man?
In the OT during feast days and every three years people would bring their goods, wheat, grain, meat, oil, fruits, whatever they had.
And they would all gather and sit down and feast with the Lord. They brought their blessings before the Lord and they all shared in those blessings.
Kind of like Church supper on Sunday nights. I see the signs all the time. Beans and franks or spaghetti at 6pm, come one come all.
This is a good work. Too bad the kitchen isn't open every day. Lot of hungry people in the world.
But it takes money to put food on the table and that's what I believe tithing is for and good will offerings we call donations.
I think if more churches did more good works, then the preaching would be easier to digest because they would see that they practice what they preach.
ha, I hear, seeing is believing.. but the preaching is where faith is, it's in the word.
It's the combo of physical bread and spiritual bread. The works and the gospel.
But this teaching comes from God and is pure unblemished.
But when we put our own ingredients in the bread.. it takes on a different texture.
Paul says something about staying home to eat unless people come together hungry and try to jump the line instead of waiting for the other to be served first. I understand this carnally, trying to see the spiritual application..
Humble, humility, putting others before self.
I think the church leaders are the ones who should be last in line so they can serve the tables.
Remember:
Act 6:1
And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
Act 6:2
Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples
unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.
Act 6:3
Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
Act 6:4
But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
So when Jesus was in the wilderness and he fed the 5000 or the 7000, he blessed the baskets of fish and bread and had his disciples feed the people. And then he had them take up the baskets which still had food in them.
In Acts we see the Apostles making disciples of others to do the same thing Jesus had them do.
I watch some ministry on tv. I don't see people serving tables in a "daily ministration" , which is exactly what God did with the children in the wilderness with the manna. Only difference is they had to go and get their own manna, while in the NT the people are served.
Which is what God did, he served them, but they had to collect it for themselves.
So instead of serving oneself in the OT, we are to serve each other in the NT.
So much to learn. New things everyday.
Hugs
