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Originally Posted by Ohio
Your comment here is ludicrous.
Apostle Paul was a pattern to the believers. He went town to town visiting the believers. Aquila and Priscilla moved from city to city. There are examples of brothers traveling all around the known world. Jesus Himself went "hopping" from town to town for His entire ministry.
Show me one verse that says to stay in one church.
There's far more "church-hopping" in the SoCal LC's than anywhere else in the world.
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I am not talking about that - church-hopping means attending a different church within one's locality. Normally, a different denomination.
The GotQuestions.org article shows a common view in Christianity - that church hopping is frowned upon. This seems like a divisive attitude to me. But this view comes from the fact that Christianity is divided into many different denominations.
I experienced this myself when I was attending two denominational churches. One Sunday someone asked me which other church I was going to and why. I experienced firsthand the expectation that a person would devote themselves to one church. Imagine if a pastor chose to "church hop" every Sunday, or a worship leader - how could they function? Denominations are not designed for "church hopping" - pastors in general don't like it. They would like people to come regularly to their church so they can invest in them and the people can give something back over time. And people will not give you any responsibilities if they know you are not a regular.
If denominations did not exist, then people could freely move between different assemblies within their neighborhood without being accused of "church hopping". It is my view that if a person goes from Catholic to Lutheran to Baptist and back to Catholic again every Sunday they are in fact "sect hopping" not church hopping. From a denominational point of view, they are hopping between churches .But from a Watchman Nee point of view, if they remain within their city they have not hopped between churches at all.