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Originally Posted by DanielR
I feel that that verse is one of the most abused scriptures in the Bible, it is often used to put a guilt trip on people that don't show up every time the doors are open. I don't believe that to mean that at all. If a person makes it a practice not to get together with other believers (church, fellowship or otherwise) then maybe this verse needs to be pulled out, but to use it to say everyone needs to be there every time the doors are open is over the top and an extreeme view the the intent of this verse.
My job dictates that I can't be at church very often, I'm lucky to get to 2 services in a month, more commonly I can only make 1 service a month. Am I forsaking the assembling? I think not. Do folks who miss Church every so often because they take some fun time forsaking the assembling? Again, I think not. I feel that if a person is at least getting together with other Christians on a regular basis (even if it is just a dinner every couple of weeks) and discusses the works and wonders of God, I don't see how that person could be forsaking the assembling because they are in this case even if they are not actually in church. There is a wide range of reasons that some Christian either can't or don't go to church very often, but that doesn't mean that they are forsaking the assembling...although that is often the case with some people.
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I hear you there.
Growing up we averaged about 4 (probably closer to 4 and a half) services a week. On top of a very difficult time in school I had virtually no time to my self because there was
always church. You simply
went to church. Next to God, church was... well, god! To this day I hear some of
ye ol pentecost favorite hymns and I literally cringe in horror and bad memories. Not unlike the negative reaction that famed horror novelist Clive Barker said he had went we went through the "It's a Small World" exhibit at Disney Land.
Yes, "Sake not the assembling" was pounded nearly as much as "touch not mine anointed". "Anything that could be used to keep the sheep in line!" as Bro Ogatt would no doubt say.
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