Why do Protestants say "The church is your heart" ? Is that just the easy way out?

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I am tired of non-Catholic Christians saying this when Jesus Christ says otherwise. Do they just say this because it’s ‘easy’?
 
Righteousone said:
I am tired of non-Catholic Christians saying this when Jesus Christ says otherwise. Do they just say this because it’s ‘easy’?
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Ive never heard anyone say this–what did they say it means?:confused:

I would say Christ is my heart;)

As a side note–you may want to take a break from hanging out with these prots because you clearly cant stand them and seem to be harboring some bitterness toward them.😦 At least that is how it appears here. When caths get me mad I walk away and pray for God to heal me of my sin of anger towards them. Works every time:D
Isnt God great!!!👍
 
ALLFORHIM said:
Ive never heard anyone say this–what did they say it means?:confused:

I would say Christ is my heart;)

As a side note–you may want to take a break from hanging out with these prots because you clearly cant stand them and seem to be harboring some bitterness toward them.😦 At least that is how it appears here. When caths get me mad I walk away and pray for God to heal me of my sin of anger towards them. Works every time:D
Isnt God great!!!👍
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Well, today I was saying how important the church was. Here are two Protestant women who don’t even go to church (I guess there is my answer), and kept saying how the church is in their heart. It saddens me and frustrates the **** out of me that they do this when I know better.
They say that Jesus meant the church to be in one’s hearts…oh brother…🤷 :banghead:
It’s not that I can’t stand them, they simply do not listen to anyone about anything. Don’t have any bitterness toward anyone.
 
Righteousone said:
Well, today I was saying how important the church was. Here are two Protestant women who don’t even go to church (I guess there is my answer), and kept saying how the church is in their heart. It saddens me and frustrates the **** out of me that they do this when I know better.
They say that Jesus meant the church to be in one’s hearts…oh brother…🤷 :banghead:
It’s not that I can’t stand them, they simply do not listen to anyone about anything. Don’t have any bitterness toward anyone.
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Seems to me that maybe they are just saying that as an excuse for not going to Church
 
Righteousone said:
Well, today I was saying how important the church was. Here are two Protestant women who don’t even go to church (I guess there is my answer), and kept saying how the church is in their heart. It saddens me and frustrates the **** out of me that they do this when I know better.
They say that Jesus meant the church to be in one’s hearts…oh brother…🤷 :banghead:
It’s not that I can’t stand them, they simply do not listen to anyone about anything. Don’t have any bitterness toward anyone.
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Yeah they dont know what they are talking about.😦 I agree with Alli —it is an excuse not to go to church.:rolleyes:
God Bless you for trying to talk to them though.👍
 
Ive heard this phrase a couple times from my protestant friends, I then point out to them that there has always been a physical, visible Church and they usually just get quiet. I know that most of the time it is just probably something they hear a pastor say somewhere and it sounds good to them. They may not even know what they are saying. It could even be, as i have suspected, an anti - Catholic pot shot, along the lines of some non Catholic Christian “sayings” like “it is not about religion, its about relationship” or “Jesus saves, the Pope leads astray” “religion Kills, Jesus saves” or whatever other cute little Protestant “sayings” that have no Basis in Scripture or tradition.
 
ALLFORHIM, I liked your reply.

Anyway, I thought about frustration and I do have it from time to time. Frustration can happen sometimes, but more frustration is a sign of impatience. Impatience leads to pride.
 
I never understood how they could say that, either. A careful reading of the NT shows that Jesus intended to establish a visible church institution, with bishops, etc

I have noticed in various religions, that once someone breaks off from the main traditional religion, they just keep separating again and again, until it becomes insanity.

This happened in Christianity and also Judaism…which is why Christianity was once one, but now is many, and the many are often really bizarre in their beliefs…and in Judaism we had the same thing happen, whereby now we have traditional rabbis (Orthodox Judaism), but also gay and female “rabbis”(!?) (Reform “Judaism”)
 
My step-mother-in-law says something to this effect, and for her, it is indeed the easy way out. She has led a very sinful life, and her actions have hurt her children deeply and caused massive disruptions in the lives of those around her. She has settled down since marrying my FIL, but I think her “church is in the heart” attitude is a way of telling herself that all the hurt she caused doesn’t matter. It’s a way of hanging on to the idea that if it felt good at the time, it must have been right. 🤷
 
So perhaps the question should not be posed as ‘Why do Protestants’ but rather ‘Why do SOME Protestants…’

It can be agree’d (as apparent from this thread) that not all Protestants feel this way… 😊

Generalizations never really work… 🤷
 
Singinbeauty said:
So perhaps the question should not be posed as ‘Why do Protestants’ but rather ‘Why do SOME Protestants…’

It can be agree’d (as apparent from this thread) that not all Protestants feel this way… 😊

Generalizations never really work… 🤷
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It’s not only protestants that say this. I’ve heard fallen away Catholics tell me the same thing! :eek:
 
I think that the concept becomes more common the farther you get from a formal concept of what it means to be involved with a “church.” Most people, Protestant and Catholic, see their faith as being defined, to some degree, within the confines of the church that they attend. The more devout Catholics, for example, see Christianity and Catholicism as being one in the same, and the Church as visible institution cannot be ignored for the Church as invisible community of beleivers. I would dare say that many Protestants see a problem with only seeing the church as being those who all have Jesus in their hearts with no reason to go to a church of any kind, after all the church is the Body of Christ.

I think that others are correct: it is a justification of not going to a church at all.

No matter how you look at it, Jesus taught corporate salvation: He came to save any who beleived in Him. The idea that the community is incosequential is anti-Bible.
 
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