{"id":47198,"date":"2022-10-01T02:45:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/which-church-will-you-look-for-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:45:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:45:57","slug":"which-church-will-you-look-for-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/which-church-will-you-look-for-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Church Will You Look For? &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are literally thousands of different churches in the United States all claiming to teach the truth of God. We need to ask ourselves, &#8220;Why are there so many different churches with different names and beliefs?&#8221; Is God the author of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33)? In looking for a church, which church will you look for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>1)<\/strong> A church assembling by Christ&#8217;s authority and with a Bible name only? (Matthew 18:20; Romans 16:16)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2)<\/strong> A church built by the pattern found in the New Testament? (Matthew 16:18; Acts 2:1-47)<\/p>\n<p><strong>3)<\/strong> A worldwide church that you can read about in the Bible? (Romans 16:16)<\/p>\n<p><strong>4)<\/strong> A church with the gospel as its drawing card &#8211; no amusements to draw crowds? (Romans 1:14-16; 1 Corinthians 1:18-23)<\/p>\n<p><strong>5)<\/strong> A church where nothing is taught but the Bible, and the New Testament is its guide? (Hebrews 12:24; 1 Peter 4:11; James 1:25)<\/p>\n<p><strong>6)<\/strong> A church that teaches its members to live in keeping with the principles taught by Jesus Christ? (Romans 2:21-22; Philippians 1:27)<\/p>\n<p><strong>7)<\/strong> A church supported by the free-will offerings of its members, as Paul gave orders to the churches in Galatia and Corinth? (1 Corinthians 16:1-2)<\/p>\n<p><strong>8)<\/strong> A church guided by its head only, and that head having only &#8220;one body&#8221; &#8211; the church? (Colossians 1:18, 20-24; Ephesians 1:22-23)<\/p>\n<p><strong>9)<\/strong> A church that stands for the purity of the gospel both in doctrine and practice? (Gal. 1:6-9; Jude 3; 2 John 9-11)<\/p>\n<p>Will you not attempt to find the church in your community that imitates the pattern of the first century church and thus honors the name of Christ (Acts 4:10-12; Acts 20:28)? May God bless you in this effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are literally thousands of different churches in the United States all claiming to teach the truth of God. We need to ask ourselves, &#8220;Why are there so many different churches with different names and beliefs?&#8221; Is God the author of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33)? In looking for a church, which church will you look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/which-church-will-you-look-for-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Which Church Will You Look For? &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}