In this episode, Joseph and Anu respond to Debbie's question about a friend who left his church. She wants to know how best to respond in a scenario where for one reason or the other, you no longer (or never did) like your local assembly. We also offered a brief comment on the recent scandal around late Ravi Zacharias.
SCRIPTURAL VERSES REFERENCED
- Psalm 68:6 AMPC "God places the solitary in families and gives the desolate a home in which to dwell; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity; but the rebellious dwell in a parched land."
- Hebrews 10:25 TLB "Let us not neglect our church meetings, as some people do, but encourage and warn each other, especially now that the day of his coming back again is drawing near."
- Matthew 16:18 TPT "I give you the name Peter, a stone. And this truth of who I am will be the bedrock foundation on which I will build MY church—MY legislative assembly, and the power of death will not be able to overpower it!"
- Matthew 18:20 NRSV "For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them."