forms of ministry that when we read these verses, we read into them an understanding of church that is not contextually accurate. Our persistence in attributing spiritual authority to religious practices not taught in Scripture is not far removed from that of the Roman Church and its observance of mass and the sacraments or the legalism of the religious leaders that Jesus confronted. Let me just state it clearly: attending a church service is not the same as being a church family. The
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