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Podcast: The Word On The Street
Episode: Q. Do You Have To Go To Church To Be A Christian?
Description: This episode answers a common question many Christians ask about church - DO I HAVE TO GO?
To properly answer this question, we also need to know why churches exist, what they're for and what the bible says about it all.
Church is not a building, although people often refer to the building where the meeting is as ‘church’.
The word actually means assembly. Not school - getting together!
In our modern English Bibles, the word “church” is supposedly translated from the Greek word “ekklesia” which simply means: people assembled.
Why is it good to get together?
What does the bible say ab...