cfree14:
So today(Sunday) I decided to stay at home because of yesterday's wedding I attended. Not that I don't go to church but I came back home yesterday feeling very tired, even till this morning.

A neighbour saw me this morning and was like "Bros, you no go church today?" I tried to make him understand why but he kept on telling me how it's wrong not to go to church and stuff.

So the question on my mind today is, why do people tag others who "miss" Sunday service as sinners?

fmcjunior:
Don't forsake the gathering of brethren.

sochey:


The right intentions are very straight forward..

Church is a place where you seek the face of the almighty.
A place for worship and prayers..
You can't have the mentality of showcasing whatever that you've got other than your heart and the entirety of your whole being..
Capisce!!

mozona:
As a Catholic it is venial sin.

EVILFOREST:
Next FEBRUARY will make it my 13years Anniversary of staying away from Church and its related activities.
Join me as I mark such an adorable feat.

I prefer teaching my KIDS, standard Morals than enrolling them into "speaking in tongues" classes which they completely know nothing about.
CHURCH isn't the only place wia morals can be taught.
In Fact the teaching of MORALS usually stems from the home and the way we do things.
AFRICAN TRADITIONAL HOMES were birthed on morals even before the WHITES came.
KIDS respected their parents and assisted.
WIVES honoured their husbands.
Husbands were really heads and not now.


Absolutely true

gentlegenius:

https://www.nairaland.com/2918205/misconceptions-hebrews-10-25-explained?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C6093352117

TruthSeeker1:


Alright, well said. How was church today then? Hope you went with the intention of worshipping and praying?

EVILFOREST:
Next FEBRUARY will make it my 13years Anniversary of staying away from Church and its related activities.
Join me as I mark such an adorable feat.

I prefer teaching my KIDS, standard Morals than enrolling them into "speaking in tongues" classes which they completely know nothing about.
CHURCH isn't the only place wia morals can be taught.
In Fact the teaching of MORALS usually stems from the home and the way we do things.
AFRICAN TRADITIONAL HOMES were birthed on morals even before the WHITES came.
KIDS respected their parents and assisted.
WIVES honoured their husbands.
Husbands were really heads and not now.

cfree14:
So today(Sunday) I decided to stay at home because of yesterday's wedding I attended. Not that I don't go to church but I came back home yesterday feeling very tired, even till this morning.

A neighbour saw me this morning and was like "Bros, you no go church today?" I tried to make him understand why but he kept on telling me how it's wrong not to go to church and stuff.

So the question on my mind today is, why do people tag others who "miss" Sunday service as sinners?

anochuko01:


A girl was dancing in front of me last Sunday...I just couldn't raise my head

pyyxxaro:
There’s no BIG SIN


SIN na SIN


You thief meat from pot or you spy woman lap , all naa the same sin

lastchild:
lies

all sins are not equal, a man who stole meat from the pot and the man who murdered somebody have not committed equal sins

pocohantas:


I am 38yrs now. I stopped because it didn’t make sense anymore. Over the years I have realized my values and ethics were not shaped, maintained or enforced because I was religious. It was just common sense and my conscience at work. Most importantly I hate hypocrites and selective adherents that makeup churches. Oh, I can’t date you without you giving me toto, but you must submit because the Bible says so. Are you maddd??

DonEvarest:
One of the Commandments of God is keeping the Sabbath Day Holy. How do we do that? If out of all other days we are enjoined just set aside one day for God, then, anything that stops us from going to meet God in His temple is ungodly and condemnable. Well except in cases of very cogent reasons such as severe sickness amongst others.

Do not subscribe to the opinions of those telling you that not going to church is not a sin. When we come closer to God's temple we commune with Him and He gives us the graces we need to prevail over the snares of the evil ones. Even the Devil knows this hence making most Christian see church as unfashionable and have serious attachments to being in church to flaunt flamboyant dressings, with the poorly dressed one sometimes evading going to churches for such trivial reasons as that. Christ Himself instructed the Disciples to stay together and pray and this they were doing when the Holy Spirit descended on them. Their togetherness is what culminated to church.

So church simply a gathering of the faithful. We should strive to be in God's House and with the right intentions and focus often, while still on earth that we may be accepted into His kingdom in the afterlife!

Fairview1:


Your points are very logical but permit me to say that Jesus Christ did went to Church(Temple/Synagogue) though it wasn't known as church then.

He was a Jew, who worshipped Judaism Faith, and believed so much in the Torah (Book of Abraham).

You remembered Him reasoning/arguing with the elders in one of the book of the gospel, that he stayed back in the temple when His parents took him to the Synagogue in Jerusalem?

He did attended Church but not in the way people have made it seem these days.

The Lord wants us as His people to catch a vision of the incomparable importance of the church in its role of revealing the risen, ascended Christ. In order to catch that vision, we must understand the significance of Christ’s incarnation.

1. Jesus Christ reveals God in human flesh. (3:16).
2. The church reveals Christ to the world (3:14-15).

Why is the church important? Because God has left it here to reveal His Son to the world, even as Jesus revealed God when He was on this earth. As the household of God, the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth, we are the current expression of Jesus Christ in the world until He comes. What a staggering job description! Nothing could be of greater importance! Maybe you’ve been turned off by bad experiences in churches that were institutional—where God dwelled only in name, but not in reality. You need to grasp a new vision of what God intends for His church, locally expressed, and commit yourself to this church. We need to make it happen right here, so that people will say, “I have seen the living God dwelling among His people.”

Hathor5:


Me reading this post.

Fairview1:
Your points are very logical but permit me to say that Jesus Christ did went to Church(Temple/Synagogue) though it wasn't known as church then. He was a Jew, who worshipped Judaism Faith, and believed so much in the Torah (Book of Abraham).

Fairview1:
You remembered Him reasoning/arguing with the elders in one of the book of the gospel, that he stayed back in the temple when His parents took him to the Synagogue in Jerusalem?
He did attended Church but not in the way people have made it seem these days.

pocohantas:


Lol. Antichrist...

SunriseW:
I don't know about church service, but missing mass on Sunday or other days of obligation on purpose is a sin

hartson:
Catholic pontiff. The priest is doing his business and you are going to mass to promote the business with 1st collection, 2nd collection ,bazzar collection,project Sunday collecrion bla bla collection.
I will never be fooled again.

anochuko01:

What if I chose attend weekly service only?

mrkings84:
It's simple. The truth is that somehow lukewarmness and backsliding might be gradually gaining momentum over u.Let's say today was your working day, be sincere, would u have stayed home just because u attended a wedding yesterday??
Even the Bible asked us not to forsake the assembling of the brethren as the manner of some is.....
Pls don't be like them. God bless you

Kobojunkiee:
The Bible didn't tell you any such. Paul, a man said something and you all took it to be law onto yourselves. God never told His people to do such, nor did Jesus Christ command any of His followers in such a manner.

God would rather you spend all that time you spend at church listening to and obeying Him instead since your church social gatherings have nothing to do with anything He commanded of you and spending time doing the things of man is not what He called you to do in His name.

Kobojunkiee:
You dey mind people who get a full subscription plan for being fooled in the name of God?