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    A Biblical Approach To Meeting Together: Christian Discipleship Series, #19
    A Biblical Approach To Meeting Together: Christian Discipleship Series, #19
    A Biblical Approach To Meeting Together: Christian Discipleship Series, #19
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    A Biblical Approach To Meeting Together: Christian Discipleship Series, #19

    By Peter M Newman

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    Many contemporary churches today have two or three Sunday morning services, with each service allowed a one-hour program.  Everyone who attends the service knows the program: first the band plays "worship" music; next there are church announcements; then the tithes and offerings are collected while the band plays some more; then the pastor gives his sermon (the same one to all three services); finally, a closing prayer is given, followed by the band playing once again.  There is neither freedom nor time allowed in the sixty minute service for the Holy Spirit to lead the church any differently from this rigid and pre-planned program.  The meeting is so predictable and boring, it is no wonder that some people are napping, while others are texting or thinking about what they are going to have for lunch.  If you think that church is spiritually dead, you are right.  It should make any sane and Spirit-filled believer wonder, "Is this all there is?  Is this all God has ordained and given us?"  The emphatic answer is: "Absolutely not!  God has given us far more than is being exhibited in the average church service today!"  This eBook reveals how God intends His church to spiritually, creatively and practically meet together under the headship of Christ.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Newman
    Release dateJul 30, 2019
    ISBN9781393471622
    A Biblical Approach To Meeting Together: Christian Discipleship Series, #19
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    Peter M Newman

    Peter M Newman is a Bible teacher and the author of the groundbreaking book, The Meaning of the Cross, and its companion book, Unveiling The Bride - The New Covenant Church.  He has worked with both traditional churches and house churches in pastoring, preaching, teaching, and evangelism and served as editor of a Christian magazine.  He and his wife have been married forty-five years and have two grown children and five grandchildren.  

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      A Biblical Approach To Meeting Together - Peter M Newman

      Many contemporary churches today have two or three Sunday morning services, with each service allowed a one-hour program.  Everyone who regularly attends the service knows the program: first the band plays worship music; next there are church announcements; then the tithes and offerings are collected while the band plays some more; then the pastor gives his sermon (the same one to all three services); finally, a closing prayer is given, followed by the band playing once again.  There is neither freedom nor time allowed in the sixty minute service for the Holy Spirit to lead the church any differently from this rigid and pre-planned program.  Every week, the pastor directs and conducts this programmed meeting, which is usually a one-man show with him on center stage.  The meeting is so predictable and boring, it is no wonder that some people are napping, while others are texting or thinking about what they are going to have for lunch.  If you think that church is spiritually dead, you are right.  Jesus left that church a long time ago, if He ever was there.  It should make any sane and Spirit-filled believer wonder, Is this all there is?  Is this all God has ordained and given us?  The emphatic answer is: Absolutely not!  God has given us far more than is being exhibited in the average church service today!  This eBook reveals how God intends His church to spiritually, creatively and practically meet together under the headship of Christ.

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      Tragically, the typical pastor’s complete dominance of the modern church service has trained the congregation to have a spectator mentality and cultivated a crippling dependence of the laity upon his ministry.  This dependency model of pulpit-and-pew ministry directly contradicts the New Testament’s teachings and practices and robs the church from having a true priesthood of gifted ministries.  Whereas the word pastor is mentioned only once in the English translation of the Bible, there are dozens of Scriptures describing the mutual ministry that should occur among the priesthood of believers.  The saints are to love one another... serve one another... build up one another... be devoted to another... pray for one another... sing to one another... comfort one another... admonish one another... teach one another... forgive one another... give to one another.  And this kind of mutual ministry to one another is not going to happen in the brief half-hour after the service while everyone is drinking coffee latte and eating donuts!  As Paul wrote, The body is not one member but many... if the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be?  If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?... As it is, there are many members but one body.  The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I do not need you!’  And the head cannot say to the feet, ‘I do not need you!’ (1 Corinthians 12:14-21)  Yet, under today’s

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