Seriously, do you have a Church? Or do you just make things up as you go along?
It’s a simple question that doesn’t require a miraculous intervention by the Holy Spirit.
What’s going on here? What are you people hiding. We are commanded to ‘Honor God’ by attending Church. I’m simply asking about your church. Do you belong to a secret church. Many people simple get a hold of a Bible & start making things up as they go along. Where is this church that calls Jerusalem its mother?
I AM the church, part of it, as all true believers are.
The true church is composed of and comprised of all true believers for all time.
It is NOT an institution, organization, or religion that someone established.
Jesus said He would BUILD His church, not establish it.
By whom and where? The only Scriptural injunction is to not forsake the assembling of ourselves together. It says nothing about having to go to *church* once a week or it's a sin.
Many people simple get a hold of a Bible & start making things up as they go along.
Nobody who gets a Bible and reads it has the option of making stuff up as they go along. As far as calling Jerusalem our mother, Paul did that in his letter to the Galatians.
Perhaps you are not familiar with it so I will post it again, with the chapter and verse.... Maybe you didn't recognize it as Scripture, God's word to us.
Galatians 4:26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
It's the only reference in the Bible that calls anyone or anything a believer's mother.
Nowhere is Mary called our mother and nowhere is the RCC even referenced, much less called our mother.
The church is the body of Christ, the Bride of Christ. The bride of Christ is we believers. The *Church* is not our mother as if she gave birth to us.
Scripture please. The only thing I can find is the assembling together which could be any group of saved people having a picnic. No “church” building or anything. Then there is “where two or three are gathered in my name”. But I can’t find a command to “attend church”.