Continue To Meet Together
All my life I've heard sermons on the importance of attending church. These kind of sermons are usually negative, harsh, and guilt ridden. People leave feeling like one of two things. They either feel guilty for all of the times they missed and make promises to never miss again or they leave feeling like they have done God a favor for having been there. I think both of those answers are wrong.
"Going to church" is not the point. I think that being together with my family should be high on the priority list. "Going to church" is much different from the idea of meeting with my family to honor the name and presence of God in our lives.
Using that definition of meeting together, I do not understand why people want to miss for such flimsy reasons. Headaches, back aches, out of town family visits, whatever the reason, we seem to be able to make excuses for missing an event that should be high on the "to do" list.
I liken getting together with my church family to the rechargable battery on my cordless drill. The drill works for a little while with the battery on full charge. But eventually it runs out of power and has to be connected to a power source to refuel the battery.
Family gathers are like this. It is a time to renew our relationship with one another and to strengthen our relationship with God. He loves for us to spend time with Him as a family. The book of Hebrews says it this way: (Hebrews 10:24-25 NLT) "Think of ways to encourage one another to outbursts of love and good deeds. {25} And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage and warn each other, especially now that the day of his coming back again is drawing near."
I wonder what people do on Sundays when we meet and they just choose to not be there. Do they just not understand that they need encouragement and so do we all.
"Going to church" is not the point. I think that being together with my family should be high on the priority list. "Going to church" is much different from the idea of meeting with my family to honor the name and presence of God in our lives.
Using that definition of meeting together, I do not understand why people want to miss for such flimsy reasons. Headaches, back aches, out of town family visits, whatever the reason, we seem to be able to make excuses for missing an event that should be high on the "to do" list.
I liken getting together with my church family to the rechargable battery on my cordless drill. The drill works for a little while with the battery on full charge. But eventually it runs out of power and has to be connected to a power source to refuel the battery.
Family gathers are like this. It is a time to renew our relationship with one another and to strengthen our relationship with God. He loves for us to spend time with Him as a family. The book of Hebrews says it this way: (Hebrews 10:24-25 NLT) "Think of ways to encourage one another to outbursts of love and good deeds. {25} And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage and warn each other, especially now that the day of his coming back again is drawing near."
I wonder what people do on Sundays when we meet and they just choose to not be there. Do they just not understand that they need encouragement and so do we all.
posted by Keith Davis at
11:05 PM
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