I have been to both. There is a difference. I think it has a lot to do with the pastor, choir and the music. I had not set foot in a church since 2010(I worked for a ministry for 5 years). I had to deal with that group of people you find in church that I call Church Folk. Church Folk are, in my experience, the most irritatingly pretentious bunch I have ever encountered. They are the folks who believe that they are SO favored, that they can get away with anything, including parking wherever they like. They are the ones who want to be in the show, hoping to get the pastor's attention and favor. It can be really childish. But, the pastor needs the Church Folk so that the ministry can grow. I met a pastor last year. He was a nice and friendly guy dressed in t-shirt, jeans and sneakers. Very casual. He happened to be white. If I were to go to church again, it may as well be his church.
I guess its a cultural thing brought over the ocean by your ancestors i mean black folk. You should attend a church service in my country smh if you got somewhere to go you better cancel it. Pastors always collecting money for the building fund yet the building is never built.
We live in an imperfect world and so no institution is perfect,....but the adversary would have it that there will always be an open season of criticism against, Gods house, the church ..........At the end of the day, it is not so much what you bring into the church,..... It is what you manage to take away from the church (with-in the very specific number of days you have in this life)........
Well, actually, Jesus was Jewish...there was no such thing as Church, his death spawned Christianity, so it would be impossible for him to attend Church, prior to the resurrection
"Church" refers to the body of believers, not a service or building. http://www.gotquestions.org/body-of-Christ.html
Church is actually derived from "Circe" the evil god that the mythological Amazons (Wonder Woman) used to do battle against. :smt006
very true. he held jewish traditions such as passover ect... they (he) attended the synagogue. they did more teaching and debating scriptures and preaching than the ceremopnial stuff they do now. not saying its wrong but it is what it is
Jesus questioned the Rabbis at the synagogue at age 10. I had a discussion with a Jewish man once and he told me that to the Jews, Jesus was a compassionate,wise man and a great prophet and nothing more than that. And it was said that Jesus was described as a black man. Well, black or white, Jesus is still the Son of God.
I have nothing but the highest respect for the Jewish faith. The man was a friend of mine. The discussion came up and that is what he told me. I was in my 20's then.
