"Why are so many Churches DYING?"

[Mark H. Stevens, Th.D]

I know some will read this and think I am over reacting or overzealous, but remember this one thing…Satan wants you to remain ineffective! If your church is stagnant, prayer meetings dead, and the people of God immature that’s where the devil wants you to stay! Rise up and decide today to address the question, “Why is my Church dying?” I think our churches have become “clubs”, If you don’t wear the right clothes and know the right people, you can’t ever advance in the “Kingdom of Church”! It is a shame that many of churches in the inner city are filled with insensitive people that look down on people that don’t dress like YOU DO! The fashion show MUST stop! Ministry means servant-hood and caring! If you can’t hug a homeless person because you are wearing Gucci or Armani, then you need to go to the altar for some serious prayer!

[Hezekiah Ben Israel]

Churches dying?

There is only one church, and that is Israel.

[newview]

I think he means local assemblies.
You knew what he meant. ;-)

[Hezekiah Ben Israel]

The local assemblies have no knowledge if they assemble on Sunday.

[newview]

Bro Hezekiah,

Where does it say in the holy scriptures NOT to assemble on Sunday?

Where?

[Hezekiah Ben Israel]

Exodus 20:8-11Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Exodus 31:14-15 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 23:3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

I will wait for you to say that Jesus changed it. and then give you those scriptures.

[Hezekiah Ben Israel]

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[newview]

No Brother, you aint waiting for me to say that Jesus changed that.
I dont subscribe to that point of view. The Sabbath is the Sabbath. :-)

But you refuse to answer my question:
---> Where does it say in the holy scriptures NOT to assemble on Sunday?

[Hezekiah Ben Israel]

Why would the bible say to assemble or not to say assemble on the first day if the 7th day is the Sabbath?

[Hezekiah Ben Israel]

Ok. well you go with that one verse, and I will go with the 80 verses that say we are to keep the commandments.

1John 2:1-4 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

What is sin?

1John 3:4Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

[newview]

Where there is no law there is no transgression.

You say:
Ok. well you go with that one verse, and I will go with the 80 verses that say we are to keep the commandments...He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
What is sin?
1John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

I say:
Where there is no law - you can't make what they do into a sin, Brother Hezekiah.

So can you come up with another reason why there arent many men in church on Sunday?

[Hezekiah Ben Israel]

I just put scripture that said we are to keep the commandments to get eternal life. You reject the scriptures, and do not want eternal life.

Matthew 19:16-19 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

[newview]

You say:
I just put scripture that said we are to keep the commandments to get eternal life. You reject the scriptures, and do not want eternal life.

I say:
What scriptures have I rejected? I did not say Saturday was not the Sabbath of the Lord. I did not say that the saints should not refrain from work on the Sabbath - nor did I say we should refrain from gathering together on the Sabbath. So I have not rejected the scriptures.
What you have done is MAKE UP a law where there is none.

Brother Hezekiah, you wont be able to draw people to God's laws by adding your own. Now what law tells the saints not to assemble themselves together on Sunday?