What is the purpose of a Church ?
16 Answers to "What is the purpose of a Church ?"
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Elaborate. The term "church" has many meanings nowadays..
Biblicly it was "ecclesia" (Greek) , meaning "called out". Due to bad translating over the years, the word has come to mean different things.
Technically, the "church" is the people (or congregation). The church is the "bride of Christ" (He's not "marrying" a building).Like (3)
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They are there so as we can sin all week and then get forgiven :)
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to get closer to said god and take your money
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A meansn by which to control the masses of humans.
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To fleece the flock. Teach BS and take everyone down with the "preacher."
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So a minister can have a quick chat about your life when you snuff it
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To give support to each other and join together in friendship and worship.
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Its just a place to congregate and worship afaik, although, being benevolent they will often be used for all sorts of things to benefit the local community...
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In many cases I believe the prime function of a church is to congregate people who have similar beliefs, discuss them and their applicable meanings, and introduce those beliefs to children who are at an age where they are unable to decide for themselves what they wish to believe in.
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To express you're feelings about something with other people who share the same ideas so that you have a sense of togetherness.
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To help us sane people recognise all the loopy people in our community. Those who go to church are nutters.
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it is a place where souls gather to love, sing and praise ... filling the same space with the same energy.
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So groups of people of the same faith can meet together and do stuff
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For people to learn more about and get closer to their religion.
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"A" church... of THE Church?
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Then.... it is the place people of like-faith can gather. Some congregations are blindly self-righteous and exclusionary. You can believe what you believe but you don't have to be condemning to people who don't share your faith. Those sort of church groups are destructive.
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Best Answer (Chosen by Voting):
Posted by xxorama Mar 17th, 2013 at 4:50PM
To collect money and tell you what not to do
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