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"Do you go to a Bible church?" That's a question I used to be asked from time to time. What the person usually meant was, do you go to one of the 'right' churches.However, once I got someone who asked that question to describe just what "Bible-believing" meant, in operational terms. Here's what he came up with: For him, a "Bible-believing" church is one that believes in the Bible, reads from scripture every Sunday, and has the minister say something about the scripture readings.
The fellow who gave me that definition was very surprised to learn that I went to a mainstream Protestant church, but that we did those three readings: and that the minister's sermon (generally) was supposed to have something to do with the scriptures.
The Catholic Church works that way, too. There are differences, of course, the minister is a priest, and we call the sermon a homily, but the pattern's the same.
Of course, the Catholic church still isn't "Bible-believing," not the way the "Bible-believing" church members use the term.
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