Sometimes I unintentionally caught Christians saying things like "Oh, I go to the church to pray." Is this Bible-Christianity??
Nope, because the God of the Holy Bible is not an idol that he should be confined to the four walls of a building.
2 Corinthians 5:7 "(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)"
Faith is contrary to sight. Faith is about the things not seen. Of course believers do pray in the church, but we don't go to the church to pray.
John 4:24 "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
God is a Spirit, he is a living God.
Joshua 3:10 "And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that theliving God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites."
The word of God is truth i.e. John 17:17 "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."
Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
At the core of a prayer is faith: faith in the living God and the word of God. The living God is the spiritual form of the written Word, and the written Word is the physical form of the living God. It is not possible to have faith in the living God without the written Word, and it is impossible to believe in the word of God without the living God. One cannot be decoupled from the other.
"Do you go to church to pray?"
"Do you go to church to pray?"
"Do you go to church to pray?"
Sometimes I unintentionally caught Christians saying things like "Oh, I go to the church to pray." Is this Bible-Christianity??
Nope, because the God of the Holy Bible is not an idol that he should be confined to the four walls of a building.
Faith is contrary to sight. Faith is about the things not seen. Of course believers do pray in the church, but we don't go to the church to pray.
God is a Spirit, he is a living God.
The word of God is truth i.e. John 17:17 "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."
At the core of a prayer is faith: faith in the living God and the word of God. The living God is the spiritual form of the written Word, and the written Word is the physical form of the living God. It is not possible to have faith in the living God without the written Word, and it is impossible to believe in the word of God without the living God. One cannot be decoupled from the other.