There are Christians who think they have the divine responsibility to visit churches, so they gallivant from one church to the other. Such people are unruly and undisciplined, and the Holy Spirit can’t walk with them. Studying my Bible, I discovered that it’s God’s desire that each of His children stay in a church as a member. You ask, “Is that compulsory?” A resounding “Yes!”
For hundreds of years, God permitted the children of Israel to worship and present their offerings to Him anywhere. But there came a time He no longer tolerated such ignorance and He instructed Moses to build a tabernacle containing different articles for worship. King Solomon later constructed a befitting Temple for Jehovah fashioned after and containing the same articles of the tabernacle Moses built. So then, every worship and offering had to be brought into His house (the Temple), otherwise it wouldn’t be accepted. The same principle now applies in the New Testament!
You can’t just wake up one morning and say, “I’m going on a visit to another church.” That’s wrong! In the early church, whenever a member of the church was traveling to another town, the elders of his church would give him a letter of recognition. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be accepted in any other church. But these days, many do whatever they like.
The apostle Paul writing under the unction of the Holy Spirit said, “And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother” (2 Thessalonians 3:14-15). If you know anyone who’s like this, admonish him as a brother, tell him what he’s doing is wrong. The right thing for a Christian to do is find a church where the Word of God is preached and taught and the pastor lives a consistent Christian life. He should get committed to the Word there and he’ll start living a triumphant life.
