Edification or Worship in the New Testament Church?
Did the New Testament church “worship” God when they gathered? Or did they gather to build one another up and for mutual edification as followers of Jesus Christ?








For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23

Did the New Testament church “worship” God when they gathered? Or did they gather to build one another up and for mutual edification as followers of Jesus Christ?
This tweet popped up in my X feed. Dale Partidge is a senior pastor in Arizona. He writes:

Why is communion in a Baptist church (or similar Protestant church) like a funeral?
This was the question posed to me by my daughter. She made the observation that if people were passing by outside the church and could hear the music, they would think it was a funeral going on.

Several years ago, Wayne Grudem wrote But What Should Women Do In The Church? It went massively viral and was discussed at length. I found a copy in the Wayback Machine and have copied it here so it is not lost. I’ve tried to retain the original formatting as much as possible.

Frank Viola and George Barna share the poem “The Calf Path” in the book Pagan Christianity. (Here is my post about reading the book.) They said: