Brilliantly Taught:

[KimmieElise]

 

[Confused1]

He couldn't have used a better scriptures than Act 10 & 11! I have used it before. If this church was in my city, I would become a member!

 

I have been trying, but my church is not there yet. My preacher once used the Hebrews 10:25 verse in a bible study about forsaking the assembling together, and I asked him what do they do if they are not welcome to come? Crickets.......

 

Mike

[Marcie Jensen]

Wow. Another example (Heb 10:25) of not fully exegeting the entire passage for context. This entire chapter discusses Christ's sacrifice and the necessity of persevering in our faith. The entire passage he was referencing refers not to the entire church assembling together, but to God's judgement. A portion is below:

 

 

²³ Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. ²⁴ And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, ²⁵ not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

²⁶ If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, ²⁷ but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. ²⁸ Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

 

I think that John 15:1-8 might have been better for your pastor's purpose:

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ..

 

But, as I was not there for the Bible study I can't say for sure.  Your comment about hearing crickets after your question speaks volumes, though.