OTC 6: Forsaking the Assembly, Part 2

Outside the Camp with Chip Brogden

in First Corinthians 11: 17, Paul says, “Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse.” And I think the describes most of the meetings and services and gatherings taking place today – they come together not for the better, but for the worse. Perhaps because they have already lost the simplicity of Christ, and they have turned the Christian life into a series of religious meetings and services – and I don’t just mean organized religion, I mean house churches and home groups as well, because they can be just as religious and dead as the denominational systems they claim to have come out of.
But what made their gathering together so much for the worse that Paul said I can’t even praise you for gathering together? What were they doing wrong?