Whether by design or default, over the last few decades some discovered they could build big followings and big buildings with rows upon rows of spectator seating and a big stage for Sunday performances that showcase their own ministries, and call it “church” …

If they could also figure out how to manipulate people’s feelings and call it “worship.”

Where did they even find that in the New Testament?

They didn’t.

That’s why God is now calling many back to simple faith through true worship …

Which is living lives of humble reverence and sacrificial obedience to Him.

And also back to simple assemblies …

Where we mutually build up one another through ministry to each other.

You know, just like the New Testament commands.

But one of the biggest hindrances to getting there, I’ve found, is the tendency to still adopt aspects of the “show” and its faux “worship,” howbeit in smaller settings like homes ….

As though new wine can go in old wine skins.

It can’t, so don’t even try …

Because home assemblies, as shown in the New Testament, don’t work if they’re simply “honey, I shrunk the ‘church.'”