www wrote: Many denominations won't let you join. By leaves "the church" do you mean the people of God or a building? If a young person no longer goes to an ecclesiastical building is he unsaved? What verse proves this? Don't forsake the assembling can be done in many ways and at various times. I know many who don't leave their homes on Sunday morning and they're as faithful as any I've ever known in a "church" building. Are these home-churchers all unsaved?
What a silly remark. You mean "shut the doors of the temple..."
John Yurich USA wrote: Suppose there are small churches that can't afford to pay taxes if the tax exemp status is removed? They would have to shut the doors of the church then if they can't afford to pay taxes.
If a believer "leaves" the church, the true church that is, he or she has thus forsaken Christ and is no longer saved. Or, as the Calvins would say, he or she was never saved to begin with.
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