01/30/25 CHOOSE A BIBLICAL CHURCH

01/30/25 CHOOSE A BIBLICAL CHURCH

God designed and established, and equips the local church. It is His plan. We can't legitimately ignore it or change it. The local church is God’s plan for evangelism, teaching, fellowship, discipeling discipline, edification, and perfecting of the saints.

Christians should be a part of a loving, faithful, New Testament local church. Even if they must travel or move to where one is located.

If you cannot move, then you need to be part of a remote (distance) ministry, with the desire to become a media satellite ministry until you can resettle or until a Biblical in-person ministry is started near you. Keep in mind, even before electronic (radio, television, internet) ministry, this is has been the mode of operation around the world since the beginning of the Church.

Being part of a remote (distance, online) ministry should include more than just watching or listening to services (for those who are not physically incapacitated). 

I am still learning how to do distance ministry. In-person ministry is better, but sound doctrine is rare, therefore we must reach out until local body life is available for the distant believers (whether foreign or domestic).

Don't be part of a local or online group that is unBiblical. Biblical standards should be soteriological, behavioral, relational, ecclesiastical. Faithfulness to Biblical truth is essential.

No one is so fully developed spiritually that he does not need to humbly submit and serve a local church.

Give up your Lone Ranger Christianity. It is not Biblical and it is dangerous.