How to Do Church According to the Bible (8-11-24)

Walk Talks With Matt McMillen

Topics: Church, Church, Service, Tradition of Men, Colossians 2:8, Mark 7:9, Old Doesn’t Mean Good or True, Traditions Die Hard, Catholics Have 2,000 Years of Man-Made Tradition, Protestants Have 500 Years of Man-Made Tradition, Good Traditions Come From Apostles, What They Say and Write, From “Us,” 2 Thessalonians 2:15, Church System Today Is Nowhere to be Found in the Bible, All Built on Tradition of Men Which Overlooks Scripture, How to Do Church, Pagan Christianity, A Church Building Every Half Mile, What’s With Paul and Women, When You Gather, 1 Corinthians 11-14, No Other Part of Bible Has Connotation of Gathering But Everyday Life, Even Pastoral Letters Are Not Pastoral Letters Nor Describe Gatherings, John Calvin Superimposed Errors, Calvinism, Places of Study of Calvin, Puritans Studied Calvinism, Puritans Can Be Blamed For Not-Attending-Church Guilt, Publicly Punished For Skipping Church, Do Not Forsake the Assembly, Before Calvin Was Martin Luther, Said He Was Reforming Catholic Church, Luther Just Put a Different Hat On Liturgy, Replaced Eucharist with Sermon, Priest With Pastor, Altar Table with Pulpit, Still A Top-Down Authority System, Still Clergy and Laity Distinction, History of Catholic Liturgy, Mostly Established by Church Fathers, Solidified by Constantine, Set in Stone By Gregory the Great, Mass Is Not Biblical But Based On Magic Paganism and Judaism, Gregory the Great in 6th Century Was Former Monk Turned Pope, What We See Today on Both Sides Have No Biblical Foundation, Peel Layer of Tradition of Men Off Scripture, Some Churches Require Signed Contracts, Sit Down Shut Up Or Leave, Brother Bob and Jim Will See You to the Door, Man of God Preaches Here, Go Down the Road to Get Your Ears Tickled, Open Sharing is Scriptural, It Would Be Outrageous If You Attempted to Share in the Middle of Service, Box Church Reflects Cult-Gathering, One-Man Dominance, One-Made Subjective Monologue, Congregation Attempts to Impress Leader, Body of Christ is Atrophied Because of One Member Usage, Box Church Has Choke Hold On Jesus Expressing Himself, No Room For Anyone to Share Unless It’s a Special Day, “We Have a Special Speaker/Song!”, You’re Forced to be Muted, You Can’t Enrich Others Nor Be Enriched, Certain Gifts Have Been Twisted and Other Gifts Ignored, The Love of Each Member Is Snuffed Out, Only Open Your Mouth During Worship, Entire Time of Gathering Is Supposed to Be Worshiping by Expressing Christ, The Meeting Is Not Open, Everyone Isn’t Encouraged to Share, Spontaneity Is Not Encouraged, Boring Liturgy, Entertainment Liturgy, Watch People Sing and Preach, Body of Christ Is Crippled, Every Member Functioning Ignored, Entire Gathering Directed by One Person Or Handful of People, Limited by One Person’s Guidance, Passive Spectators, Where the Spirit of the Lord Is There Should Be Freedom, Christ Has No Freedom to Express Himself Through You, We Need to Repent Toward Scripture, What Do We See In First Corinthians 11-14, Paul Writing to Worst-Behaved Group of Ecclesia, He Doesn’t Shut Gatherings Down Assign Top-Down Authority System and Hand Out Bulletins, Nor Does He Say Get the Elders to Get Things In Line, Work It Out Amongst Yourself, Examine Yourselves, Have a Meal and Remember What Jesus Has Done, Be Spontaneous, Everyone Should Participate, You’re A Body With Many Members, All Members Are Vital, All Members Need the Other Members, Everything Shouldn’t Be Put on One Body Part, God Has Put Together the Body, Everyone Has the Right to Share, Others Allowed to Interject While Sharing, No Pastors Elders Deacons Sermons or Tithing, Express Gifts Decently and In Order, Visitors Will Think You’re Mad, Love Is the Greatest Gift

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