In a society that is continually revealing a marked decline in the general undertakings of quality human interpersonal relations, penetrating even into the basic unit of society - the family, it is unsurprising, and highly expected of, that the Church in its mandate towards society before God, strives to actively resist the evil in the world culture while hemming in her members against the rising tide of the pressures of this fleshly world. While it is fitting for the Church in the pursuit of nurturing her members towards building a cohesive Church family by advocating the biblical concept of meeting one another continually, as institutionally pioneered by the apostle Paul in his epistle to the Hebrews (Heb 10:23-25), it is noteworthy with reference to Paul's admonishment in verse 25, that Church leadership tend to magnify the virtue of the act of meeting over the means of exhortation to be exchanged between the brethren....
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