A friend said something recently on Facebook about how frustrated she is for people seemingly forcing church attendance down her throat. She doesn’t need to go to church, she says along with other things. All the points as to why she doesn’t want to go to church are all seemingly valid points. However, I can’t agree about them. I did have to say, we would have to agree to disagree and that led to a little more convo about it. I don’t know if she will read this blog or not and I’m okay with that. I just wanted to voice my opinion, based on what I know the bible says, about church attendance. Please if you have a different opinion, feel free to share it, but please don’t use bad language or get angry, it’s my blog and my viewpoint!
It IS important. In Hebrews 10:25 it tells us not to give up meeting together as a lot actually end up doing. So, if for no other reason, we are commanded to meet together with fellow Christians for encouragement in the faith and the Christian walk. One may argue that it doesn’t say go to the church building. I agree! As my church often says, the church is the people, not the building, if we don’t come together, we don’t have church! Meet in a gym, meet at your house, or meet in an open grassy field. I don’t really care WHERE you meet….just meet! Worship God, Learn about God, Grow closer to God!
1 Corinthians 12 talks about the many different parts of the body and how they should all work together as a whole. If we aren’t a part of a church body (call it whatever you want) then how can we expect to work together like your own physical body parts do? If you detach you left hand and it’s never used or practiced with, how do you expect to give an even decent guitar performance? Are you following me on this one? God calls us, as Christians to meet together, to be one body.
There are several purposes to attending church besides what I’ve already said; some are for us to grow up in the faith, to learn to serve others, to learn to love one another and also to learn to forgive others. Yes, I hear often that the church is full of hypocrites! Shaun always says, well, there’s room for one more, come join us! Granted he is joking, but think about it! The church is made up of humans! We screw up all the time. That is why we have Christ as the head of the church, and so very thankful He forgives us!
That may not be the extent of my thoughts on this, but I hope it at least communicates to you all my heart on the issue. Christ died for all of us, so why are we wasting our time not coming together to worship Him for it?
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
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