If I don't go to church anymore, how do i fulfill Hebrews 10:25/

You write: "kun dili na mu attend church..." [If i don't go to church anymore...]

When we believe and say, "We are the church" [1 Cor. 3:16], then where should we go to? They are diametrically oppose to each other. Church is not some place to go to, neither a program to attend to and thus fulfill your 'Christian duty?' Church is where He lives, not where we meet.

Your question: "Unsaon nalang pag fellowship sa mga people?" [How can I fulfill Hebrews 10:25]

How did the New Testament Believers fulfilled Hebrews 10:25, where it said, "Do not forsake the assembling of the saints..." in their day when they have never established a 'church building' to meet? The answer is Acts 4:31-38, they meet from "house to house."

Several reasons on house-to-house principles:

1. They understand that they are now the temple of the Holy Spirit. God transfered His residence from temple building to temple body which is His church on earth. They are now the living stones being built up.
2. Judaism has temple [the one whom David built]. Pagans around them has temple. If they built one, is Christianity has any difference from other religions around them? Stephen dies for one reason: He speak against the temple of David saying, "Thus says the Lord, 'Heaven is throne the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me. For God does not live in temple made with hands." Then he was stoned to death! God wants to live in a temple made by divine hands [people], not with human hands [temple building]. Church is a people, not a building.
3. The ultimate expression or definition of a church is a family. We are His children and He is our Father, we are to a 'household of faith,' we need to treat each other as 'brothers and sisters.' And God saves households in the New Testament. Remember the demon-possessed man who was healed and was sent by Jesus directly to his household to witness. And normal family lives in a house, that is why it is better to have church meetings in the house. We are more natural in the house than anywhere else in this world. I can fool my wife outside my house and in front of you but inside my house i fool no one.
4. Revival must begin in the house where sin begins. Adam and Eve started it, we inherited it. We sin more in the house than anywhere else in this world. If we have revival in our church [buildings] with unrevived homes then it is merely sheer hypocrisy.

Give me the best shoot or valid reasons why we must build building to house the church:
Fellowship? Can't we not do it anywhere? God is everywhere and He lives in us 24/7. If we need a place to fellowship then we have every place we need on this earth:homes, restaurants, offices, plaza, coffee shops, cafes, schools, name it and you can use it.

Of course, that depends upon how you 'program' your fellowship time. If it is a religious sect the what you just do is do some rituals to appease yourself with God once a week, right? Simply because you feel you are not holy during mid-weeks [that's why we have mid-week services too, huh]. Tell me what's the difference between Christianity and other religions of the world in terms of 'way of worshiping God,' Temple? they have it and its better than ours. If that is what saves a person more i would become a Mormons! Preaching? they have it, they even use the same Bible as ours. Singing? we almost sang the same song every week! We speak in tongues? they too speak in tongues [look at the charismatics], Crying? oh they cry too, louder. Screaming? they climb on walls! Healing? they heal more than ever.

One thing that God choose us is to be holy. That is being different from all peoples of the earth. That is not doing church differently, but how we live our lives different from the world. That they cannot follow because only Jesus transforms lives. So in order for them to follow how we live a new life is not to copy what we do, but to come to Jesus.

Now, but if your understanding of the word 'fellowship' is having an intimate conversation with someone then you don't have to be in the church service sitting and let someone at your back stare behind your neck! Church fellowship in the New Testament is is not a one-man preaching to everyone, but one-another to encourage everyone. To let them function in their gifting. [There are 58 one another in the New Testament. Preaching is greek is 'diagolozimai', meaning dialogue, not monologue. And we are to function together in church meetings simply because God has gifted everyone, not one person, to serve every ligaments of the His body, the church.]

If your view of church is a program, then you have to 'attend', then you go home doing nothing with one another and of course fulfilling nothing. But if your view of fellowship is sharing one another's lives then a venue does not matter, nor any program you must follow. All you value is building relationship with your brothers and sisters and meeting needs. This is what church is all about: relationship and meeting needs. Search out how Jesus lived: reconciling relationships with His Father and to Him, and meetings needs. Are we not told by Him to follow what His footsteps?

I believe it is much better for someone to go the neighbor, having coffee or breakfast on Sunday morning, talk about his life and family, his work, his problems and struggles, and encourage him, pray for him, let him know that the Lord Jesus cares for him, letting him accept Christ - on Sunday morning than go 'attend' a church, sit, clap, shout, lift your hands, listen to sermons, give, say a prayer and go home.

It is much better for someone to go to the the street help the needy with your money intended for the church tithe, feed the children with your money intended for the church rent, speak your word of encouragement intended for a song of praise, say your prayer for the unbelievers intended for you to keep quite while the pastor is doing all the praying...

Isn't all these things valid as church as far as Jesus concerns? Clothe the naked, visit the poor, help the widow and the orphans, feed the poor? Jesus even ask the rich man to give his wealth to the poor and not to the temple? huh!

Arbie, me? enough is enough. I don't wanna waste my time. I don't go to church anymore but i love the Lord Jesus so much and His Word.

Imagine: Going to church week after week, month after month, year after year, both now and forever, amen! Is this church? Is this Christianity? I think Christianity is more than that, it is a way of life and not a series of religious meeting.

Lastly, to answer plainly your question. Fellowship must be spontaneous not scheduled. Hebrews 10:25 says, that 'all the more' we will do fellowship with one another as the day approaching. What is 'all the more' mean? Once a week? The New Testament Believers even do it 'daily', how much more in our days. Scary ha.

Hope you take the time reading...

Kuya M