DOES FACEBOOK COUNT AS 'CHURCH?'
by Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
A Facebook friend recently asked
whether viewing televangelists “counted as 'church'?”
Without answering her question,
directly, I responded obliquely “Facebook counts..!”
In Matthew 18: 19-20, the Bible says:
Matthew 18:19-20
New King James Version (NKJV)19 “Again I say[a] to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
Certainly, 2 or 3
are gathered together in the name of Jesus Christ on my Facebook page
daily! There we definitely gather:
Psalm 27:4.
Since, “the earth is the Lord's
and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein,”
Psalm 24:1, whether or not the church began at Antioch, as asserted
doctrinally, Acts 13:1-4, it really began, temporally, when man and
woman first apprehended the presence, power and spirit of Almighty
God.
4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not die; 5
for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened,
and you will be like God,[a] knowing
good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good
for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the
tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit
and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her,
and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew
that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made
loincloths for themselves.
8 They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
8 They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 4: 4-8
That cosmological apprehension of
divinity continues and abides with men and women in life wherever and
whenever they may be found, regardless of its formal designation, or
its communications medium!
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2 COR. 3:17.
Amen.
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