Should Churches Require Members to Attend Small Groups?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 21 November 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode 1102 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. Is it OK for Christian couples to purposely not have children?
2. Is a Christian who attends Sunday service faithfully but does not attend midweek small groups or other church activities throughout the week considered "forsaking the fellowship of the saints"?
3. What does 2 Thessalonians 2:11 mean?
4. Is it too late to be saved on our deathbed?
5. How should you respond when someone says that they've forgiven you but continue to bring up past sins again and again?
6. Could you please unpack Matthew 13:38-39? Are the people mentioned here the Sons of Perdition?
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| 0:00.0 | Should churches require members to attend midweek gatherings? |
| 0:10.6 | That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. |
| 0:16.2 | Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. |
| 0:25.8 | You can call us right now with your question at 8333 The Core. |
| 0:30.6 | That's 1, 833-843-843-2673. |
| 0:34.9 | Now, if you want to post your question on one of our social media sites, you can do that |
| 0:38.4 | right now. You can also watch Adriel live in the studio on YouTube and send us a message through |
| 0:44.7 | our YouTube channel. And, of course, you can always email us your question at questions at core |
| 0:50.6 | Christianity.com. First up today, let's go to Stephanie, who's calling in from California. |
| 0:56.7 | Stephanie, what's your question for Adrile? |
| 1:00.2 | Hello. |
| 1:01.6 | My question is that I have known a lot of Christians who, for various different reasons, |
| 1:08.5 | have decided not to have children. |
| 1:11.1 | And I was just wondering if that is an okay decision for Christian to make. |
| 1:16.7 | It's a great question, and I've also noticed this as well, Stephanie, among many of my peers. |
| 1:23.6 | I guess I think, you know, the question is, what is the reason behind the decision? I think that |
| 1:28.7 | there can be good reasons for an individual or a couple saying, hey, maybe right now is not the |
| 1:34.3 | time for us to have children. There can also be selfish reasons, wrong reasons as well. I think that |
| 1:41.6 | one of the bigger issues today is just kind of this shift in how people, |
| 1:46.6 | culture, more broadly, views family and children. There are a lot of jokes out there in society. |
| 1:52.7 | You know, children are just kind of a nuisance, that sort of a thing, and just take and take and take. |
| 1:58.9 | And so I don't want anything to do with that and so a lot of people |
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