STOP GOING TO CHURCH!

...that is if you are a regular attender at a church. Of if you don't go to church at all, then just don't go to church. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that God wants us to go to church. There are not commands telling us to go to church. There is no promises made to us if we would just go to church. Nothing.

All we know is that believers in Christ in the first days after he ascended into heaven began to meet together daily to listen to teachings and eat together. They would support each other financially as well as emotionally. What we refer to as the "early church" or the "first church" was a community of believers that tied their lives together with the common bond of acceptance of what Jesus had done for them. This is what we ought to do. This is being the church!

This is what we are commanded to do. We are to love God with all that we have and to love each other more than ourselves (Matt. 23:37-40).We are to continue to work out our faith with fear and trembling (Philippians 2:12). We should be providing for one another in every way.

We must stop going to church. We must BE the church. That's what God wants for us.