So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing. (1 Thessalonians 5:11).Today is Sunday and church day. We meet together today and sing and pray, listen to a lesson from the scripture. in our case today, we will take communion and eat together after services.
But is that why we are here?
It is hard for me to imagine a world without church on Sundays. It is hard to think of sleeping late, or just goofing around. In my family, and in my wife’s, when we were growing up, we always went to church on Sundays.
And we always filed in and sat in pews and sang and prayed and gave money and all.
Then we went home and had dinner. In my church, we also had Sunday evening church, but in the one I pastor right now, we don’t. when church is over, we are through with it for the day.
But is there more?
We can be Christian by ourselves. But with church, with the meeting together, we can become strong Christians.
That is the point of coming together in worship. The worship is important, the prayer, the singing, the giving, the hearing from God’s word – all are vitally important.
But that is not really why we are there. We are together not just to worship God, but to encourage and edify each other. We help each other. We push each other to better service. We build each other up.
The reason we meet together on Sundays is for encouragement and mutual edification. Without it, all we are is a bunch of people sitting in rows listening to a band or some guy talk. With it, we are fulfilling our duties to each other.
Hebrews 10 says: Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near. (10:23-25)
If we don’t do that, we might as well stay home. We have lost the point.
Church was designed to be a life-long spiritual support group, helping each other attain heaven. When we do that, we do what we are supposed to do.
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