daily java

Daily Java: Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. (Hebrews 10:23-25)

One of the hardest things to do is to get people to come to church when there are no special things happening.

Stuff at church is not to reward someone for coming by having a great program or an interesting day; it is to worship the Lord and praise his name, and to encourage each other. You cannot encourage or be encouraged if you are absent. There is also no glory to be found in staying home from church.

A preacher once made the comment about how sad it was to stay away from a church service for some reason and when you came back, the Spirit had moved and everybody else had moved to the next level.

Church attendance it to encourage each other to move to that next level, to encourage each other to grow, to encourage each other to be better at serving God. Just in general, to encourage each other.

As Christians we look for ways to spur one another, to push one another, on to love and good deeds. Church attendance, or that is attendance at worship services, allows us that opportunity.

It is pathetic when we come and sit and participate and listen, yet get nothing from it. We just give our presence and that’s all.

It is when we give ourselves to God and ourselves to the worship, to the teaching, that we gain something.

Church is dead to so many because they are dead themselves. The preacher can only do so much, the church council can only give so much support, the worship leader can only do so much. There comes a point where the attendee has to enter into the worship. You have to do something yourself.

What a service that would be when all who attend give themselves totally to the worship of God and the encouragement of each other.