Mark

Dave,

no i am not saying we need to be speaking in tounges to be in a ‘formal’ church. The point is simple. The gathering of the assembly of believers i.e church is different to our other weekly so called ‘church’ things. You might like to say they are not, but the activities we do in each, indicates that they are.

I agree that Jesus is with us in spirit and body because we are his body, but Paul is not addressing 2 brothers hanging out together. He’s giving instructions to the church, the ‘whole’ body of Corinth if i can put it that way.

If you can’t see the differnet contexts of the bible regarding evangelism, mission, church then there isn’t much more i can say to help you. If you continue to think that 1 Cor could essentially be applied to you and me when we catch up for coffee thats fine, but i totally disagree.