God's Word is the lone guide to truth and He has laid the model for His true church body to function. Sadly most all bodies today are infected with man centered, unbiblical practices and teachings that don't honor God or follow His way's at all. The following may be helpful in testing if your current Christian body is biblical or false? May God be praised......
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1) If you have an elder/pastor who wears a dress or allows ladies to teach ... You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body!
1 Timothy 2 / But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
2) If you go to gatherings led by people who "practice" their worship ... You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Mark 7 / Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
3) If you have a pastor of "recreation" or "connections" but no teacher of holiness.... You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! 1 Timothy 4:8 / For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
4) If the name on your building is man based, not Jesus Christ's...You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body!
1 Corinthians 1:12 / Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
5) If you're pressured to tithe 10% but you're never shown "just where is that is taught in the New Testament" ...You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! 2 Corinthians 9:7 / Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
6) If you're offering goes to buy a bigger building or a new widescreen TV and not to needy brothers...You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Ephesians 4:28 / Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
7) If the songs are instrumental (makes you move your body but not your spirit) ....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body!
Romans 6:13 / Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
8) If their idea of the Lord's Supper is fast food (cracker and juice)....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body!
Matthew 26 / And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
9) If you hand your children off to go with other adults for spiritual training ....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Ephesians 6:4 / And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
10) If the dress code is come as you are and makes you look at the floor rather than see oflesh anthers d forms ....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! 1 Timothy 2 / In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array
11) If you're gathering times are set so you can make the NFL game or get to the beach ....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body!
1 John 2:15 / Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
12) If you're taught "this is the special building where God dwells"...You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body!
Acts 17:24 / God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
13) If you have to take a 3 week class and test just to be baptized ...You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Acts 2: 41 / Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
14) If you're told you're not really in Christ's church body unless you have their local membership card....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! 1 Corinthians 12:20 / For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
15) If your congregation hangs up a sign that says "No Perfect People Allowed"...You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Matthew 5:48 / Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
16) If your elder/pastor seems to adore/idolize his super bowl collection or favorite team ....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Ephesians 5:5 / For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
17) If your elder/pastor hears "new" revelation from God but doesn't even teach all bible truth in his bible....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! 2 Timothy 3:16 / All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
18) If the local Jehovah Witness at your door talks to you more about God than your friends in the pews....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Matthew 5:16 / Let your light so shine before men
19) If you have a worship leader, youth pastor, creative arts director and minister of social programs but you have no biblical discipleship....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body!
Matthew 28:19 / Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20) If you get a headache from the volume, drums, mood lights and smoke machine on stage .... You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Romans 12:2 / Do not be conformed to this present world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind
21) If ladies "congregate" but do not "cover" their heads .....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! 1 Corinthians 11 / But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for that is one and the same as if her head were shaved. 6 For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered
22) If you have a successful denomination or have a increase in attendance but not sound doctrine ....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! 2 John 1:9 / Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God
23) If your gatherings are timed out, man led services that tell the Holy Spirit to start at 9 am and to stop at 11:45 sharp......You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Romans 8:14 / For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
24) If the men have to get a permission slip to address body .......You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! 1 Corinthians 14:26 / How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.
25) If you're all reading the latest, greatest books not just "THE BOOK" ( bible ).....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Matthew 4:4 / Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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1) If you have an elder/pastor who wears a dress or allows ladies to teach ... You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body!
1 Timothy 2 / But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
2) If you go to gatherings led by people who "practice" their worship ... You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Mark 7 / Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
3) If you have a pastor of "recreation" or "connections" but no teacher of holiness.... You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! 1 Timothy 4:8 / For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
4) If the name on your building is man based, not Jesus Christ's...You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body!
1 Corinthians 1:12 / Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
5) If you're pressured to tithe 10% but you're never shown "just where is that is taught in the New Testament" ...You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! 2 Corinthians 9:7 / Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
6) If you're offering goes to buy a bigger building or a new widescreen TV and not to needy brothers...You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Ephesians 4:28 / Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
7) If the songs are instrumental (makes you move your body but not your spirit) ....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body!
Romans 6:13 / Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
8) If their idea of the Lord's Supper is fast food (cracker and juice)....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body!
Matthew 26 / And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
9) If you hand your children off to go with other adults for spiritual training ....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Ephesians 6:4 / And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
10) If the dress code is come as you are and makes you look at the floor rather than see oflesh anthers d forms ....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! 1 Timothy 2 / In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array
11) If you're gathering times are set so you can make the NFL game or get to the beach ....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body!
1 John 2:15 / Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
12) If you're taught "this is the special building where God dwells"...You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body!
Acts 17:24 / God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
13) If you have to take a 3 week class and test just to be baptized ...You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Acts 2: 41 / Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
14) If you're told you're not really in Christ's church body unless you have their local membership card....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! 1 Corinthians 12:20 / For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
15) If your congregation hangs up a sign that says "No Perfect People Allowed"...You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Matthew 5:48 / Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
16) If your elder/pastor seems to adore/idolize his super bowl collection or favorite team ....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Ephesians 5:5 / For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
17) If your elder/pastor hears "new" revelation from God but doesn't even teach all bible truth in his bible....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! 2 Timothy 3:16 / All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
18) If the local Jehovah Witness at your door talks to you more about God than your friends in the pews....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Matthew 5:16 / Let your light so shine before men
19) If you have a worship leader, youth pastor, creative arts director and minister of social programs but you have no biblical discipleship....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body!
Matthew 28:19 / Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20) If you get a headache from the volume, drums, mood lights and smoke machine on stage .... You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Romans 12:2 / Do not be conformed to this present world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind
21) If ladies "congregate" but do not "cover" their heads .....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! 1 Corinthians 11 / But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for that is one and the same as if her head were shaved. 6 For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered
22) If you have a successful denomination or have a increase in attendance but not sound doctrine ....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! 2 John 1:9 / Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God
23) If your gatherings are timed out, man led services that tell the Holy Spirit to start at 9 am and to stop at 11:45 sharp......You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Romans 8:14 / For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
24) If the men have to get a permission slip to address body .......You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! 1 Corinthians 14:26 / How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.
25) If you're all reading the latest, greatest books not just "THE BOOK" ( bible ).....You Are In a False Unbiblical Religious Body! Matthew 4:4 / Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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