I discovered the truth about "churches" after many decades of trying to find a good one. I was tossed to and fro by unsound doctrine in these so called churches, of many different denominations. It wasn't until, by the grace of God, that I sought Him and pleaded to know the real Biblical truth. I stopped reading books by professing Christian leaders, watching so called "Christian" programs on TV and went to our only source of truth, the Bible. We are promised the Helper, the Holy Spirit, to teach us sound Biblical truth. We just need to trust the Lord, to give us eyes to see and ears to hear.
First, I discovered that church isn't a building!! When two or more of like precious faith are come together, you are having church. My adult daughter and stopped attending these watered down, 501c "churches". The Bible is the foundation of our faith. We follow the Regulative Principle of Worship, so we we do not observe these pagan holy days, Xmass, Easter because we are not commanded to observe them in the Bible. Sadly, our family cannot not find anyone in our area who holds to these truths, just Christians from around the world, online. But Jesus said it would be so.
Praise God you were able to find truth! There's a handful of decent Christian authors, like Francis Shaeffer or Francis Chan, but yes most all of them are not worth reading. Building a spiritual community is exceedingly hard in postmodern America but at least we have this place online for a little while. When this place folds we'll just have to look forward to finding true believers as the institutional churches dry up
My favourite part of attending church, when I did, was Psalm singing at a Reformed Presbyterian church in Edinburgh (especially good when you had old-timers who knew how to do all the harmonies, it was euphoric) - a tradition the RP's made all their own with their many melody variations based on folk music. What a relief it was to be singing hearty bible songs about conquering and death compared to the terrible evangelical praise songs I was brought up with. That's what I miss.
I discovered the truth about "churches" after many decades of trying to find a good one. I was tossed to and fro by unsound doctrine in these so called churches, of many different denominations. It wasn't until, by the grace of God, that I sought Him and pleaded to know the real Biblical truth. I stopped reading books by professing Christian leaders, watching so called "Christian" programs on TV and went to our only source of truth, the Bible. We are promised the Helper, the Holy Spirit, to teach us sound Biblical truth. We just need to trust the Lord, to give us eyes to see and ears to hear.
First, I discovered that church isn't a building!! When two or more of like precious faith are come together, you are having church. My adult daughter and stopped attending these watered down, 501c "churches". The Bible is the foundation of our faith. We follow the Regulative Principle of Worship, so we we do not observe these pagan holy days, Xmass, Easter because we are not commanded to observe them in the Bible. Sadly, our family cannot not find anyone in our area who holds to these truths, just Christians from around the world, online. But Jesus said it would be so.
Praise God you were able to find truth! There's a handful of decent Christian authors, like Francis Shaeffer or Francis Chan, but yes most all of them are not worth reading. Building a spiritual community is exceedingly hard in postmodern America but at least we have this place online for a little while. When this place folds we'll just have to look forward to finding true believers as the institutional churches dry up
My favourite part of attending church, when I did, was Psalm singing at a Reformed Presbyterian church in Edinburgh (especially good when you had old-timers who knew how to do all the harmonies, it was euphoric) - a tradition the RP's made all their own with their many melody variations based on folk music. What a relief it was to be singing hearty bible songs about conquering and death compared to the terrible evangelical praise songs I was brought up with. That's what I miss.
That sounds great. Even the evangelicals used to have better music but now it's all gotta be "current". Singing Psalms and hymns is so rare nowadays