Any organised religion is merely an interpretation of holy scripture by man - which means it will be thoroughly corrupted and perverted for personal gain at best, and outright ruin of others at worst, especially in this day and age with degeneracy running rampant throughout society. Fuck that shit. Cultivate your own personal relationship with God. You don't need a church for that.
Solo, individualistic Christianity is not depicted in scripture at all. God's goal is for a body of believers, not a bunch of separated individuals. God generally operates by means of authorities, and unfortunately, the quality of these authorities these days is generally low. The quality of the systems is also generally low.
Anyway, there is something that happens when Christians learn how to flow together spiritually. There is a need to flow out and give encouragement, instruction, or whatever you can. This is ultimately a spiritual sowing that builds you up. You can't do this by yourself. With other people your spirituality gets tested. You might think you're the man, and you've got it going on by yourself. When you have to meet with other believers, there are people who will grate on your nerves or hurt you or offend. Let's see how spiritual you are in response to that?
1 Cor. 14:26 What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up.
This is a depiction of how Christians used to meet. "Each of you has." How is it in a modern church, only the preacher gets to speak and maybe a singer or worship leader? Each of the 5 things listed involves speaking.
I was meeting with a group who acknowledged this stuff. Ultimately, it's not a very spiritual group, so there's no tongues at all and not a lot of spiritual things happening. Instead of worship music, we would sing hymns together. Meetings were based around readings mostly coming from a single person but sometimes one other. Because of the incompetence of the people, this was used as a sort of handicap where most people are just reading repeating what was read.
I left the area, and I found out about books by Frank Viola. I liked what he described much better, but I could never find such a group. He stated a plain fact that all Christian groups can range from Great to awful no matter how they're meeting.
These days I am losing an interest in all people teaching or giving revelations. We can all listen to a single person with microphones and recordings and all that. There's plenty of good messages and teachings out there. If there's a shortage of anything, it isn't teaching. It is love. What if 10 people need someone to sit with them and listen for about 2-3 hours? As a single person I could possibly handle 1 or 2 of these but not all 10. That's just a small sampling of love needs that are present, and the need for love greatly outweighs the need for teaching. If there's a great need for teaching, it's the showing an example, guidance, and instruction type of teaching and not what you'd find in a sermon.
This might have been relevant when degeneracy wasn't utterly rampant in society, but I sure as fuck wouldn't want anything to do with the cucked churches that exist today. There is one in my area who parrots all the faggotry/tranny/climate change/degenerate propaganda.
That kind of church is completely fake. There are good churches where people haven't given into the leftist garbage and are trying to do good even if they're not succeeding at things a whole lot.
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