Which is More Important: the Brethren Meeting Together, or our Sunday Service...

... and which can be based upon the Scriptures as more important? Do we just take lightly the meeting together of the Brethren as if it is an extra-curricular ‘church’ activity? For, which is better: feeding a starving man once a month, or teaching him to cultivate his own crops? Both are beneficial, but one is merely a welfare program while the other truly has the man’s interests in mind.

Do we build a doghouse with the Brethren, yet contrive to erect a massive house on Sundays with the women and children. If you were to offer a banquet to be held on Sunday, and ask “Which of you has a magnificent dwelling to offer as a place for this lovely banquet", you would most likely see many a hand raising. But if you were to ask, “Whom has a home where the Brethren can meet once a week?” there would most likely be naught but eerie silence, as we have seen.

I believe God is looking for a few, good men to edify the Body of Christ and to preach His Gospel. Soldiers would not be effective in the battlefield if they hardly ever trained together as a unit. Last time I looked, most soldiers don’t have their wife and children with them on the training field, nor do they bring them into battle. Any good marine will tell you he has another marine there to check his pack and weapon. And, yes, if one has not, as of yet, noticed the roar of cannon, we are in a battle; the enemy has made a point to target the authority of the Body of Christ, the Brethren; when we meet together, we should meet as if we are at war.

God, through His Word, has sent us draft notices and has warned us against the over-inflated, long-haired, lukewarm, hippie-dippy, feminized, draft-dodgers. Jesus spent time teaching and preaching to the multitudes, but He revealed doctrine to and had kinship with the 12 disciples, His Brethren, when He and they were assembled together. Likewise, Christ has kinship with us and reveals His Word to us, when we meet together as Brethren; as David said in Psalms 133, “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for  brethren to dwell together in unity!  2. It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; 3.As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, Even life for evermore.”

Follow up:

the Church, the body of Christ is made up of all those whom have professed Christ as Lord and obey His commands, men, women and children. I am not against men, women and children meeting together in Christ, but the emphasis cannot be placed upon that as the official meeting of The Church, as spoken of in Hebrews 10:19-25, lest we move away from the pattern of the Scriptures into sectarian traditions and modern feminism.

Even some women, led by the spirit of feminism, understand the power of this regular meeting, and they make sure that they meet once a week, encouraging this over the pulpit; they are serious about attending for at least 2 or 3 hours at a time so they can teach the husband's wives doctrine. Just a thought.

Steven

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