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Today has been a great day. We started with rehearsal at 8:15, followed by Bible class, and a wonderful worship experience. Becky and Chris both did great jobs on their solos, and John Mark Hicks gave an amazing lesson about the resurrection and the celebration of breaking bread together. Remembering what Christ did for us is a reason to celebrate! After worship, it was off to mom's for Easter lunch and family time with my sister and her kids. A good time was had by all. We ate, watched Pujols hit 3 home runs to lead the Cardinals to a victory, ate too much candy and came home. Now we are just sitting around relaxing and watching TV. I had a great Easter, and hope that you all did too.
What did you do this Easter Sunday?
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i did what i do every sunday....i went to worship God...and as part of that worship, i partook of the Lord's Supper(just like i do every Sun.)to remember Christ's death, burial, and ressurrection. according to the bible we are to commememorate His sacrifice every Sunday...special services to celebrate the ressurection on "easter" is man's law, not God's and "we ought to obey God rather than men" Acts 5:29
Yeah, right. . and the Book, Chapter, and Verse authorizing your church building, hymnal, communion tray, bathroom in the church, or meeting anyplace other than "house to house" or in the "temple courts" is where?
Maybe before you get so puffed up busting on how other people understand and worship God, you need to make sure your own junk is together.
I personally spent the day playing with my kids, cleaning, and hanging curtains, but i guess that is not woshipful enopugh to pass your litmus test either. . good thing YOU are not the judge (maybe that would be a good thing to remember).
Keep it up Conni. . you ROCK!!!
3q
wow...arent we a little quick to anger?
there is a difference in making worship to God accessible to all men and instituting new commandments upon men.
church building, hymnal, communion tray, bathroom in the church....these are merely conviences which facilitate the furtherance of the gospel...
for example, how can we teach if people dont know where to find us(church building)
how are newcommers going to learn the words to songs, if we dont have hymnals?
how else is communion going to be served if we dont use a tray?
where will we relieve ourselves if there is not a bathroom and sure an adult can hold it until an appropriate time, but what about the parent whose child cannot?
and as far as your comment on people understanding how to worship God, 2 tim 2:15 "study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth." now, if we are to "rightly divide the word of truth" this implies that there is a wrong way to divide the word of truth...
and you are right, i am not the one who judges as far as salvation is concerned, but a a Christian, i have a duty to teach my fellow men...so i ask you how am i supposed to teach others if i do not judge whether they are in the wrong or not?
yeah, so in otherwords, you are very content worshipping in a way that is not authorized by scripture as long as it serves YOUR needs, and is consistent with YOUR level of comfort.
There is NO scriptural authority for church owned property. One could even argue to use the collection to pay for property rather than to feed the hungry, clothe the needy and to heal the sick is sinful. It certainly holds more with tradition than with scripture.
And no, not quick to anger, just quick to expose inconsistencies. If you are not meeting daily in the temple courts and from house to house, you are not worshipping accordance with scriptures. If rigid adherence is so important to you, I suggest you re-evaluate your affiliation. Anything other than that is hipocrysy.
3q
how is a building, songbook, communion tray, or bathroom detrimental towards the furtherance of the gospel? the answer is that they are not...
however, putting emphasis on a "special" day of worship is not in accordance with God's word...and it is not Facilitating the furtherance of the gospel as the aforementions items do...
i have given you scripures to back my stances...where are yours?
where is the biblical commandment to worship in houses? and by the way, temple was a place of worship, so if you want to go with that line of thought, there is your authority to worship in a specific place
Well, I had to work Saturday night, so I spent part of my Easter Sunday sleeping. I took the baskets and candy to work and put everything together on a break. I stopped at Panera and got bagels for breakfast, which is a Sunday ritual for us. After I got home, I "found" the kids Easter baskets on the front steps and told the kids, who were VERY excited. After I woke up, we finished making dinner, which was divine. We had ham, baked sweet potatoes, broccoli with cheese, and squash. I am very thankful for the time I got to spend with my family.
Came home from a funeral in western Oklahoma. My bright spot was being able to see my sister for a few short hours. Her bright spot was being able to see Benny for a few short hours.
Ok, now hold on a second. . .help me understand the difference between stepping outside the bounds of scripture to own a church building and stepping outside the bounds of scripture and having a "special celebration" for easter? It sounds pretty much the same to me.
So, your rationale is "well, the public EXPECTS us to have a church building. . .how else would they know to come meet us?"
To use that same rationale, the public EXPECTS special services for easter and Christmas. . .to refuse to have such, would probably discourage people from coming to church on those special days. . .thus inhibiting their contact with the Church. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
Oh, and you asked for scripture references. . .there are noe prohibiting church owned property. . .but none authorizing either. The book of acts says that people met in the temple courts (not church owned property, but a public place) and "from house to house" (2:46, 5:42, 12:12)
so, if the church you are a member of OWNS their building, you are as guilty as those you accuse.
3q
i never said the public expects, those are your words not mine....
i said a building facilitates the futherance of the gospel...there is a big difference between those two arguments...
and you are right, the temple courts were public property, meaning they were open to all...is not the church building public property? is it not open to all?
if you study, you will see that the church is not a building, but rather the body of believers, the people...
in the bible we see that there were different congregations of this body who came together to worship God(i.e) the congregation at berea, rome, corinth, galatia, ephesus, phillipi, colossae, thessolonica...
for there to be a congregation, there had to be a set place for them to meet...are you really going to tell me it makes a difference whose name was on the title for the land the building sits on?
and by the way, if they met from house to house, did not a member of the church OWN the building they used?
dag
dag,
You are TOTALLY missing the point. . .you use the "silence of the scriptures" to prohibit a practice (Easter Celebrations) that is inconsistent with your comfort zone and traditional background, while at the same time, defending ANOTHER aspect of "silence of the scriptures" as expedient to the spreading of the gospel. The fact is that the Bible does NOT authorize the ownership of property by the Church. . .in FACT, the examples are given that the collection of money by the church is to be used for benevolent purposes and paying the preacher NOT paying a mortgage.
Now, don;t get me wrong, I am NOT saying that "I" believe that it is wrong to have a church building. . .I am saying that ro condemn one and endorse the other is hipocrysy, plain and simple. . .you are talking out of both sides of your mouth in order to condemn someone else, who is simply sharing her faith. . .NOT telling anyone else what they are or are NOT supposed to do.
Again, if you want to play the roll of legislator of church organization by your interpretation of the Bible, then PLEASE be consistent. . .otherwise you are simply practicing hipocrysy.
So, dag, which is it? Is the silence of the scriptures legislative or not? If so, you had better get them elders to put the building on the market and use the money to feed the poor. Economic injustice and helping the needy in all possibile ways are something that the Bible is NOT silent about at all.
3q
Hey dag, 3q, and conni h, I will respect all of your beliefs and traditions, I just want the same back.
Jesus commanded us to love one another and to love God. If you are following the two greatest commandments, then we are in complete agreement and there is nothing to argue about.
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