I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.
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Luke 1:10:
And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshipers were praying outside.
(NIV)
And all the throng of people were praying outside [in the court] at the hour of incense [burning].
(AMP)
And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
(KJV)
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John 4:24:
'God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.'
(NIV)
God is a Spirit (a spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (reality).
(AMP)
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
(KJV)
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John 4:23:
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
(NIV)
A time will come, however, indeed it is already here, when the true (genuine) worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth (reality); for the Father is seeking just such people as these as His worshipers.
(AMP)
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
(KJV)
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