I was once told I couldn't know what the Bible says or means because I had not gone to seminary. This was a very big clue that the person saying it did not understand salvation through Christ and the working of His Holy Spirit in every believer's life.
We are the church and my husband and I worship in our home. I speak with God daily and read His Word every day often. I walk with Him as Adam and Eve walked with Him in the garden. I worship in Spirit and Truth, that is in the Holy Spirit.
Today's traditions are based on man's idea of worship and not the Biblical model of the first-century church. Nowhere in Scripture does God say to go to a separate building to pray or worship, the early believers met in homes and the public was not invited to the worship because it was for those who love Christ.
God told believers to "go out into the world" He never told us to bring unbelievers into our worship gatherings until they became born-again and then they came in as brothers and sisters.
The modern church invited the public, they learned the lingo of the gathering and fooled people that they "became a Christian" but were never born-again by the Holy Spirit. This is the condition of nearly all gatherings today. The church buildings are full of mostly pretenders who have never been born again but liked the "Christian club" they joined who readily accept them without questioning them.
Read 1 Corinthians 14 to discover how God commanded the church the church to operate, totally led by the Holy Spirit without a human leader. Worship leaders are not of God, it is the Holy Spirit Who leads not human beings.
1 Corinthians 14:28-30 "28 But if there is no interpreter, he should remain silent in the church and speak only to himself and God. 29 Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said. 30 And if a revelation comes to someone who is seated, the first speaker should stop."
The "church" is not a place or a building, it is the people who have been indwelt by the Holy Spirit of Christ who meet anywhere, at any time of their choosing.
Romans 14:4-6 "…4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand. 5 One person regards a certain day above the others, while someone else considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 He who observes a special day does so to the Lord; he who eats does so to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.…"
God's word does not designate a special day to meet, a special place to meet or a special man to lead, it is clear that all born-again believers are subject to the leading of the Holy Spirit. And, while there are leaders who teach and lead by example they have no authority over the others in the gathering, they guide, can be corrected, and are not qualified to be elders unless they are also teachable themselves.
2 Timothy 2:24 "24 And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach (teachable himself), and forbearing. "
In this passage, the translation should have been rendered "teachable" according to the original language not "able to teach."
This passage is a good example of how the Bible has been misunderstood because it was translated by those who did not understand the Jewish mindset and who were indoctrinated by their culture when they translated from the original languages into their own mindsets.
When we ask the Holy Spirit to open our eyes to everything that we were taught that was not right it is astounding how many cultural things we were pressured to believe that were not true according to the original languages of God's Word.
My encouragement to you is to ask the Holy Spirit about everything. Any time there is a question about something do not immediately got to seminary graduates, they will tell you what others taught them, not necessarily what God said.
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