5 Unbiblical Church Practices (3-10-24)

Walk Talks With Matt McMillen

Topics: Church Practices, Question Everything, Socrates, Socratic Method, Dialectic, Corrupting the Youth, John 7:19, Moses Gave the Law, None of You Keep the Law, Why Do You Want to K**l Me, Tradition of Men, Mark 7:9, Colossians 2:8, Gathering on Sunday, Building Called Church, Hebrews 10:25, “Church” Isn’t in Hebrews, Synagogues and Temple, No Pastor or Priest Preaching, Place of Animal Sacrifices, Remember the Sabbath, Sabbath on Saturday, Acts 20:7, Gathered on the First Day, This Was One Individual Meeting, Not a Description of Weekly Church Gathering, Constantine Began Sunday Worship, Worshiped Sun God, One Person in Charge, Matthew 20:26, It Will Not be Like this Among You, You Will Not Lord Over One Another, Gatherings Described in 1 Corinthians 11-14, Group Participation Encouraged, Everyone Gets Chance to Share, No Pastor Ever Listed as “In Charge”, Elders and Deacons Not In Charge, Reformation Put Pastors in Charge, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Elder is Mature in Any Faith, One Body With Many Members, Hebrews 13:17, Obey Your Leaders, Pastor Not in Hebrews, Leading them Away from Temple Work, Obedience of Faith, Formal Education, Preaching, Requirement for Formal Education in the Bible, 1 Corinthians 1:27, God Chose the Foolish, John 5:39, You Search the Scriptures, Did Not Choose Formally Educated According to the Law, Did Not Choose Priests, Choose Fisherman and Tax Collectors, Formal Education Began in 16th Century, Preach Means to Speak, Women and and Donkey Spoke More about God Than Anyone Named Pastor, Sermons, Sermon Not in Bible, Sermon on the Mount, Sermons Began Before Jesus, Sophists, Sophisticated, Philosophers, One-Man Monologues for Pay and Prestige, Early Church Was Greek, Clement of Alexandria, Sermons Bad Thing, Augustine and Chrysostom, Sophists Turned Christians, Eucharist Replaced Sermons, Greek Rhetoric, Deceitful Arguments, Constantine Loved Sermons, Pastor Never Gives Sermons, What’s Biblical is Everyone is Encouraged to Share, Tithing, How Many Times Are Believers Commanded to Tithe, How Many Times is Tithing in the Epistles, 2 Corinthians 9:7, Give Freely From the Heart, Not Under Pressure, Not Under Compulsion, Tithing Was Part of the Law, 23.3%, Not Money, Crops Produce Grain Spices Cattle, Tithing is a Curse, Galatians 3:10, Rely on Tithe is Relying on Curse, How Do You Keep the Lights On, Let Your Requests be Made Known, Trust God, Give-to-Get, Rely on God’s Grace Working Through the Body

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