Conviction or Convenience?
It is alarming to see how some people who have been in assembly fellowship can easily leave for almost any reason, and go join a denominational church, as if it were all the same. Some even respond acrimoniously when admonished, "You take this assembly thing too far, almost like a cult." This reveals an alarming lack of Scriptural conviction about the Lord's will concerning church fellowship. To justify themselves they attack the assembly attempting to stigmatize it with the word "cult." There is a Scriptural pattern and those who cannot see it need to anoint their eyes with eyesalve (Rev. 3:18) and be cured from their Laodicean blindness. But worse yet are those who have been well taught, and turn their back on these important truths about the church in order to attend a denominational church for reasons like the size or nearness or popularity of the church, or because they have a good music program, or larger group of young people." Some of the worst ...