It is really quite astounding how many rituals are in the church that God never commanded. The one-man pastor system, the collection plate, the building, the holidays, and many other rituals that God never told us to perform.
One of them is the funeral ritual, nothing in the scriptures tells us to buy people in the ground, if we are to do the same thing as happened to Christ we would be in a cave, even then it is not commanded by God.
Then there is the marriage ceremony, the church was never given direct instructions on how this was to happen. We are free to choose how we do these things but we ought never to have expectations of others on following the rituals we have chosen.
God said to "worship in Spirit and in Truth", that's the only direction for worship.
The day I asked the Lord to reveal to me anything I do pertaining to my faith that was not true, was the day my eyes were opened to how far from the scriptures nearly all denominations have come. In fact, denominations are disobedience against God. Choosing one principle over another to identify a group of people makes no sense, we are to observe all the principles as given to us by God.
What amazing freedom we have to express ourselves when we are not in bondage to human rituals disguised as Christianity.
Just saying!
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