"Let us continue to hold firmly to the hope that we confess without wavering, for the one who made the promise is faithful. And let us continue to consider how to motivate one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another even more as you see the day of the Lord coming nearer."
I hear this scripture a lot about not letting go of coming together as believers and worshipping together, but what does this mean? What does it look like? Is there a form superior to other ideas?
It's a big question in a age of highway speed life, digital connectivity, and increasing loss of one on one discipleship. "Church" has, since the transition by Constantine into the Christendom World view, been about ritual and form centralized around the church organization, but is that the look of the church we must except or is there more to our rich history?
From what I have studied, I find a church format brought together under a Roman form that took away the individual expression of the local church and made it cookie cutter led by a single organizational structure instead of a movement of people led by the Holy Spirit.
Is church simply a gathering together or is there more we are called to? Is it about gathering at one place or is it more about sharing our lives in the personal places where we live? Can church exist only in that one place or can it exist in small gathers around the dinner table? Is it about one man preaching or the voices of the individual coming together as a symphony of the one voice of God? Do we play some music to prepare our hearts to receive, or can we sing as an expression of what we have received? Is the end of the service the end of our service or is it only the beginning of the true mission and gathering?
So many questions and so many opportunities for understanding :-) I'm still coming to my own conclusion through scripture and prayer......what do you think?
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