The assembly is the church gathered.
When you come together as a church.
Church is the assembly. Paul writes to Corinth about when they come together as a church. Each has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up. Women are told to keep silent in a setting he is correcting. The point he presses is order, not a crowd. The church is not only a list of names. It is the people gathered in the name of Jesus. He says where two or three are gathered in His name, He is there.
- The house church is one place the assembly met. The assembly is the gathering, not the building.
- Tongues without interpretation do not build the assembly.
- Do not forsake meeting together. The habit of absence is named and warned.
When you come together as a church.
Let all things be done for building up.
Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I.
- The assembly is the church come together.
- Corinth’s gathering needed order and building up.
- Gifts in the assembly are for the others, not for display.
- Jesus is present where two or three gather in His name.
- Neglect of meeting is warned in Hebrews.
- A house can hold the assembly. The house is not the church.
- The Act – Coming together.
- The Aim – Building up.
- The Gifts – Hymn, lesson, revelation, tongue.
- The Presence – Two or three in His name.
- The Warning – Do not forsake meeting.
- The Place – A house can serve.
- 1 Corinthians 11:18 – “When you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you.”
- 1 Corinthians 14:26 – “When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation.”
- 1 Corinthians 14:40 – “All things should be done decently and in order.”
- Matthew 18:20 – “Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
- Hebrews 10:24-25 – “Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some.”
- Acts 2:42 – “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship.”
- Acts 20:7 – “On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread.”
- James 2:2 – “If a man wearing a gold ring comes into your assembly.”
- 1 Corinthians 14:23 – “If the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues.”
- Colossians 3:16 – “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another.”
When you come together as a church.
Let all things be done for building up.
Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.
The assembly is that gathering. Order it for building up. Do not forsake it.
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