Chapter and verse, please. From the bible. You sound just like the Pharisees.
2) A true believer longs to worship God and be in the fellowship of other believers. Anyone who rolls out of bed and feels "obligated" to worship has an issue with himself, not the church.
3) The heart of this issue is not legalism, it's the "Conditional Worship" laziness of contemporary pop-bubblegum christianity. The idea of "Unless I can ____ then I won't go to church.", or "Unless the church offers ____ then I won't go."
These churches are closing their doors on Christmas Sunday as a convenience to the congregation. Our convenience or comfort should never be a consideration when it comes to worshipping the LORD on the day He has set aside for corporate worship.
News flash: Christians worship every day because worship is not something you do but something that you live...just like eating or drinking which is not bound by certain days or times.
Unfortunately, most believe worship is a set time where we sing and hear a sermon. Biblical worship is fulfilling our calling and expressing our gifts in service to others, such as being the best husband/father, employer/employee, wife/mother, etc., as unto the Lord.
Biblical/historical worship has little to nothing to do with song or being with others but how we live our lives as to whether we please Him or not.
Hebrews 10.24-27. St. Paul claims forsaking the assembly of believers merits eternal hellfire.
And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to good works: Not forsaking our assembly, as some are accustomed: but comforting one anther, and so much the more as you see the day approaching. For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins: But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall consume the adversaries.
Why is it always so easy to make doctrinaire Protestants like yourself look so foolish on these points?
>>Chapter and verse, please. From the bible. You sound just like the Pharisees.<<
- Exodus 20:8 (on the sanctity of the Sabbath)
- Neh 13:15-22 (on the sanctity of the Sabbath)
- Is 58:13 (on keeping the Sabbath holy)
- 1 Cor 16:1-2 (On meeting in fellowship the first day of the week - the new Sabbath day as recognized by Christ's resurrection)
- Acts 20:7 (Gathering in prayer and communion on the first day of the week)
- Rev 1:10 (the Lord's Day being the first day of the week)
- Acts 2:42 (on the importance of meeting together)
- Heb 10:25 (In not forsaking the fellowship)
>>Christians worship every day because worship is not something you do but something that you live...just like eating or drinking which is not bound by certain days or times.<<
I understand that. You must have missed the part of my post wherein I said that a Christian is to worship the Lord privately, and/or as a family every day. However, the Lord's Day, Sunday, is set apart and sanctified for the gathering of the fellowship to worship God corporately.
>>Biblical/historical worship has little to nothing to do with song or being with others but how we live our lives as to whether we please Him or not.<<
Again, then Paul's letters to Timothy on church structure, offices, and order must be hereby null and void, since their not important, right?
To the contrary, public worship, teaching, and exhortation is commanded.
1 Tim 4:13; 2 tim 4:2; Col 3:16; Eph 5:19
If you were to have your way, there would have been no need for any of the epistles on the subject of corporate worship or church government.