[Church_of_Christ] Re: The Melting Pot
Ed,
you said:
>Come forth with your 80% of things we do that are simply traditiion >and not found in the NT. Bring forth your charges, the challenge is >issued and I will answer!!!
Ok, here's a sample:
100% of NT worship was Jewish for the first 15 years AT LEAST, and combined Gentile and Jewish for 2 centuries after that. The Gentiles learned from the Jews. Our worship is western gentile with no relation to Jewish worship.
100% of NT worship taught doctrine only from the OT because there was no other.
100% of NT worship involved languages we no longer use: Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic.
100% of NT worship was community based. They interacted in the service, Q & A, they discussed...
100% of NT worship was daily. Ours is 3 hours a week if we're lucky.
100% of NT worship involved people who celebrated with joy because they actually believed that God did something. We choose to be sad, solemn, and reserved because we think it's 'humble and reverent'.
100% of NT worship involved the miraculous: tongues, prophecy, healing, and other spiritual gifts, which most churches today believe is over with.
If you need more examples of how we are nothing whatsoever like the early church, I have them.
Ray
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