What is a church homecoming? What can I say about it for a service?<\/p>\n\t
The Bible doesn’t talk about churches having “homecomings.” This is a man-made event and has no business being a part of a church’s activities.<\/p>\n
“And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men<\/em>” (Matthew 15:9).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: What is a church homecoming? What can I say about it for a service? Answer: The Bible doesn’t talk about churches having “homecomings.” This is a man-made event and has no business being a part of a church’s activities. “And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men” (Matthew 15:9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-34624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-social-activities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16016,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-refreshing-to-see-a-church-more-interested-in-promoting-the-bible-than-social-activities\/","url_meta":{"origin":34624,"position":0},"title":"How refreshing to see a church more interested in promoting the Bible than social activities","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I was searching for VBS materials on-line and typed in \u201cfishers of men\u201d on my search.\u00a0 Your web site came up.\u00a0 How refreshing to see a church of Christ web site that is more interested in promoting Bible truths than social activities!\u00a0 I just wanted to say that I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9142,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-was-the-church-used-for-in-the-14th-century-besides-religious-activities\/","url_meta":{"origin":34624,"position":1},"title":"What was the church used for in the 14th century besides religious activities?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: In the 14th century in Europe, apart from religious activities what did the public and nobles use the church for? 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