I believe that Ephesians 4:11-16 (see below) reveals the purpose as to why Christians should assemble together. This purpose is something a christian cannot accomplish apart from assembling with other believers. Unless one has health issues or an obligation that keeps them from assembling for this purpose, he/ she may be out of the will of God.
The text speaks of the roles in the Church in accomplishing the “perfect man,” which is not about being perfect but whole/ complete and mature in the faith.
There are some roles that God has put in place to help others to accomplish this “perfect man.” But all believers have roles to fulfill, and those roles are the “work of the ministry.”
It's not about sinless perfection but being whole or complete as an assembly of believers. It is about maturity in the faith and doctrine. It's true that not everything done in the assembly accomplishes this, but it is the Divine aim.
Are you working against the Divine aim or for this Divine aim? Are you fulfilling any role in the assembly to accomplish this Divine aim?
11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— 16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. Ephesians 4:11-16
Don't be a destroyer of the “temple of God” which is the body of Christ.
“17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.” 1 Corinthians 3:17
3/17/2025
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