If You Meet On Facebook for Edification You Have Obeyed God

If you have met on Facebook or any other social media with other believers around the Truth of the Word as led by the Holy Spirit, you have not neglected the gathering together.

We live in a world now in which the institutional churches have disobeyed Christ more than they have obeyed and have been perverting His Word more than obeying it.

The church buildings are full of man's rituals, making people feel comfortable rather than building them up in the Word. These places have expectations God never gave and discourage what God commanded.

The people sense they are safe because of the rituals and the hierarchical system that elevates men above Christ. The system is protected, and people who expose it are demonized.

Familiar rituals that God never commanded are many; here are a few:
Paid pastor system;
Holiday celebrations through pagan influence;
Buildings called temples;
Pictures of a man depicting Christ;
Pressure to formally join as though tied to one gathering with the expectation of working within that system alone;
Needing permission from leadership to preach and teach the gospel outside the building;
There are many false teachings inculcated with much psychology that trumps Bible teachings;
Teachings about the nature of marriage that defy what God told us in the Bible;
Telling the attendees that only the dedicated preachers should be sharing the gospel in the community;
Disallowing anyone to preach who does not have a seminary degree;
The altar call; and
Then the most ridiculous pressure of all is when the leadership forbids people from having Bible studies in their own homes unless sanctioned by the hierarchy.

There are more unbiblical things going on in these institutional churches, but the few I mentioned should be enough for us to avoid them. God's way was for us to be the Temple and to meet in the homes of others who are the Temple of Christ.

2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths."

Obey God's Word, seek Christ, and avoid all unbiblical things you were taught that has ruined the churches today!