"Your mistake is that you don’t know the Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God."
Jesus is speaking to the Sadducee's, those who are not spiritually alive and yet pretend to have authority in spiritual matters. They are very similar to those today who speak of the Church as being a non-essential gathering place to justify being "Lone Rangers" and claiming spirituality is the way to keep in right relationship with God, their hypocrisy is, to me astounding.
Spirituality is meaningless if the spirit behind it is not The Holy Spirit, and I for one do not believe He is the author of an ideology that justifies not gathering together regularly with His Body, the one He died to establish. Everywhere in the New Testament the writers address the Church in their letters and not individuals. Revelation starts with letters "To the Church in", not to the "guys who live in".
Jesus is speaking to the Sadducee's, those who are not spiritually alive and yet pretend to have authority in spiritual matters. They are very similar to those today who speak of the Church as being a non-essential gathering place to justify being "Lone Rangers" and claiming spirituality is the way to keep in right relationship with God, their hypocrisy is, to me astounding.
Spirituality is meaningless if the spirit behind it is not The Holy Spirit, and I for one do not believe He is the author of an ideology that justifies not gathering together regularly with His Body, the one He died to establish. Everywhere in the New Testament the writers address the Church in their letters and not individuals. Revelation starts with letters "To the Church in", not to the "guys who live in".
There is great danger in trying to be "Lone Rangers", and those who justify forsaking His body rob themselves of the great treasures within her and they rob her of the treasures within them that God has given to help build her up and bring her to maturity. Any new believer who reads Hebrews 10 can come to no other conclusion than that gathering together regularly is crucial. Those who claim to be above the need for gathering together should read their Bible without preconceived ideas or without trying to justify a position or while trying to whitewash pain or perceived betrayal by those in the Body.
We need each other and to be a healthy body all the members must be joined together....
We need each other and to be a healthy body all the members must be joined together....
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