Fellowship

Church? What is it?  For one thing it is NOT A building!!!When we say that we go to church we need to say that we are on our way to worship GOD with our brothers and sisters in Christ  at St. so and so in (Clermont) (Groveland) (Winter Garden etc.)  We designate the location of the building where we will meet WITH the church and fellowship and worship our Lord. The use of Church as a location rather than the place where we worship with fellow saints and seek to learn His perfect will for our individual  and corporate lives.

Some time we designate the place with PRIDE, a deadly sin. We sometimes fall into the sin of pride, when  the number of fellow Saints with whom we meet  becomes a "measure  of our Holiness ?", because so many are there each Sunday or our music is "anointed" etc .

The big question is how many souls are reached for Christ? How many are living lives meet unto repentance? How much Spiritual growth is evident each day and week that exhibits the reflection of Jesus in our daily lives

Church must not be construed as a denomination. Denominations simply define our local fellow saints as subscribing to certain doctrines as rules to follow in our quest to know God. The rules when BASED ON SOLID SCRIPTURE EVIDENCE HELP THE ADHERENTS TO LEAD HOLY LIVES as defined by Jesus.

I write these words with prayer, that the words be received in the spirit in which it is written, not to criticize but only to examine ourselves, give some thought to our own growth in Christ.