but why? Why is it necessary to be in organised religion if you’re perfectly happy with the God you’ve found already? To me, the need to gather in a specific place to worship suggests a sub-100% belief that needs regular top-ups, or a belief that the scope of God is limited to places of worship and the people who worship there
The scope of God is definitely not limited to places of worship or the people who worship there. I do believe that he created us to live in community with each other in order to grow in our faith and to help share the gospel. The formation of the church in Acts pretty clearly lays that out, and the rest of the New Testament is mostly Paul chastising the different churches in Greece and Asia about falling back into “organized religion” tendencies. We weren’t meant to live life alone, which coincidentally is a major reason we’re all here on Nostr
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