{"id":21947,"date":"2020-07-28T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=21947"},"modified":"2020-07-28T10:36:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T15:36:56","slug":"what-makes-a-biblical-gathering-truly-biblical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=21947","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Biblical Gathering Truly Biblical?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Hebrews-10-24-25.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How does Hebrews 10:24-25 relate to COVID-19 social distancing restrictions and the size of church gatherings?<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,&nbsp;not giving up meeting together [assembling together],&nbsp;as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another&mdash;and all the more as you see the Day approaching.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <strong>How Do We Biblically Fulfill Hebrews 10:24-25? <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve read many recent applications of Hebrews 10:24-25 that <em>to me<\/em> seem to import <em>modern Western\/American cultural ideas back into this passage<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, some seem to think that the <em>only way<\/em> to fulfil Hebrews 10:24-25 is through the &ldquo;mega-gathering&rdquo;&mdash;our modern, cultural, American, Western &ldquo;worship service.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I am a committed member at a church with a service like this. I have been a Sr. Pastor at a church like this. I am in no way opposed to Sunday morning worship services.<\/p>\n<p>With that point clear, could we consider together the biblical, contextual, 1st-century, cultural application of Hebrews 10:24-25?<\/p>\n<p>These COVID-19 days give us a chance to&mdash;perhaps even force us to&mdash;assess <em>what makes a biblical gathering truly biblical<\/em>. Maybe we could picture this as me &ldquo;thinking out loud&rdquo; and pondering together with you what Hebrews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does Hebrews 10:24-25 relate to COVID-19 social distancing restrictions and the size of church gatherings?<br \/>\nThe post What Makes a Biblical Gathering Truly Biblical? appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2779,1956,2777,2780,2009,2781,2778],"class_list":["post-21947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-assembling-together","tag-covid-19","tag-hebrews-1024-25","tag-house-churches","tag-social-distancing","tag-sunday-worship","tag-worship-services","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Hebrews-10-24-25-300x225-2-1.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21954,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947\/revisions\/21954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}