Daily Archives: 26/08/2025

Yesterday’s post was obviously, like all my “What the Bible should have said” pieces, intended to show how easily we who claim to base our belief and practice on the Bible blithely ignore it in practice. The pattern shown in the primary NT passage on Christian assembly, 1 Corinthians 12-14, says that it is a meeting based entirely on mutual edification rather than “the worship experience”: “All of these [things] must be done for the strengthening of the church” (1 Corinthians 14:26). But this is also the pattern held up by Luke as paradigmatic of God’s new holy people in Acts 2. The ideal and the apostolically recommended practice agree.