Biblical Gatherings Differ Greatly from the Man Made System

I am convinced, after watching some of these building projects emerge, intended to grow congregations, that they come from pride.

Rather than holding small gatherings in homes, which would spread across communities and influence the neighborhoods, they have people in the church building invite their friends to that place.

Rather than edifying the believers, they pander to the unsaved to keep them coming. It makes the believers lazy about sharing the gospel themselves; it then becomes the job of the paid pastor. It is backward from what God commanded in His word.

1 Corinthians 14:26 "What is the outcome then, brothers and sisters? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. All things are to be done for edification."

Ephesians 5:19 "Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,"

Colossians 3:16 "Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God."

God never intended for one person to preach for an hour while all the others sit in the pews completely silent.

Romans 12:6-8 "We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one’s gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith; / if it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach; / if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully."

All born-again believers have gifts God gave them and jobs to do that enhance the working of the congregation within the gathering and also in the community.
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Believers are to attend the gathering to edify one another, equipping each one to live out their calling in the community. And, yes, every believer has a calling.

1 Corinthians 12:12-27 One Body with Many Members
"12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
19 If all were a single member, where would the body be?
20 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
23 and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
24 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,
25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it."

No one should be thought of as higher than anyone else and no one is paid to carry out their calling. Their calling is not given to them by a hierarchy system, but only by the Lord Jesus Christ and His Holy Spirit.

May each born-again believer never be discouraged by systems that make their own rules. May each one lean completely on the Holy Spirit for their function in the body of Christ.