What is the Church?

[GasTank]

I find it hard to call some one an "unchurched" christian, if they don't go to a main line church. You know what, the church these days i don't think is the way it needs to be. some people believe that they have the gift of tounges, so they group together, others say they can prophesy, so they group together. So instead of every one coming together and sharing the gifts that God gives them they break up into different denominations.

We've got Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, Penicostals, they all have some kind of gift, and yet they hind and use it among those who have it too, when maybe they should be sharing it with others who don't have that gift!

I think that home fellowshipping is alot better, due to the fact that every one shares amongst each other. I really don't think it is the way God wants it, when you have one man doing all the talking.

Right now our family does go to a Baptist Building, (we are not Baptist though), I really don't get much out of any of the teachings there, Yet I get ALOT when we do family fellowship type things. I think it is because every one is sharing what God has shown them in life. You don't see much of that when you go to some main line Church sermon.

God wants all to share.................not just one!

[Wisdom's Child]

The church is the Ecclesia, which is to say, the body or the assembly of believers.
Biblically, every time the Ecclesia is addressed it is in reference to the believers in a particular City or other geographical location.

Outside of the Ecclesia, there are only two other referenced terms that can be used,
a synagogue, which is technically a theological "school", and the "synagogue of Satan"
which is an end time false school of theology.

Our current system of Denominational Churches is more comparable to the Jewish Synagogue, than it is to the "Home Based" Book of Acts Apostolic Ecclesia to which Pauls letters are addressed.

[day2day]

:amen: Sometimes Feel the same way. Why cant we all get along.:clap:

[New_Wineskin]

:amen: Sometimes Feel the same way. Why cant we all get along.:clap:

Because you are human .

[Bevlina]

The main thing is, you don't call anyone an 'Unchurched Christian". We are in the Body of Christ, and that is not a Church. We are simply, Christians.