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“Seeing Other Churches”
Categories: RELIGIONS, THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCHWe have recently been told at our church not to visit any church because that is church prostitution, and anyone who does visit other churches is a spiritual prostitute. Is there any such thing as church prostitution and spiritual prostitution?Sincerely,
Faithful Member
Dear Faithful Member,
The Bible does talk about spiritual prostitution – but never about church prostitution. Spiritual prostitution is idolatry (Judg 2:17). If someone decided to regularly attend a congregation that wasn’t faithful… that would be a very real problem, but simply visiting other faithful, God-fearing churches in your area isn’t wrong. It also isn’t wrong if you are searching other churches because you want to find a church that is more faithful!
The problem is that many, many churches aren’t faithful. Corruption is so prevalent in religion today that it is deeply disturbing. God even warned us that false teaching would come (2 Thess 2:3). Be very wary of churches that only tell you what you want to hear, instead of what you need to hear (1 Tim 4:3-4). Compare all churches to the Scriptures; test all preaching against the Bible (1 Jn 4:1). We recommend you read “Finding A Church” and “Down With Denominationalism” before visiting around.
