Why Go to Church?
Love is the key to the question: why go to church or why pray.
Recall your first dates when your heart was on fire of love. You did not ask questions nor researched any book for seeing whether you should go and meet him or her. You just went because your desire was to be together with your special one in every moment. The power of love answers every question and clears every obstacle. Our True Love is therefore undefeatable and eternal.
A holy mass is like a wedding. You unite with your loved one until death on your wedding day and you unite with your Eternal Love forever on the holy mass. You did not wed at home or at any other improper place. So the dedicated place of your “Sundays wedding” is prepared at church.
And of course, you did not wed in jeans, leaned to the benches and watched the sealing boringly on your special day. How do you do on your “Sundays wedding”?
Recall those tight hugs when togetherness was not ever close enough. Whenever you accept the Eucharist, your soul entrapped in your body is hugged by Christ entirely, from head to toe. This is how perfect your being is for Divine intentions and how imperfect for human intentions.
You seal your wedding event with a kiss and an “I love you”. Do you end your “Sundays wedding” with a wonderful “I love you” to your Eternal Love? Him, who is longing so much for your little love ever since He showed his on the cross.
The Lord has established the church for us, not for Himself, and for us to use it because that is what He foresaw as the most effective institution for reaching our salvation.
1. We are moving into the “un-church” age of Christianity. A survey conducted in US in 1991 reported that one out of every eight people who claimed themselves as “born-again Christians” do not go to church. Many believe that the Bible does not command people to attend a church; that is a man-made requirement. a. Some think that it is not necessary to go to church on Sundays. b. Others attend a home Bible class and do not go to church at all. 2. As good as Christian television and radio programmes, Bible Study groups and other organisations might be, none can take the place of a church. I. THE REASONS FOR GOING TO CHURCH 1. It is a biblical requirement for all Christians. Hebrews 10:25a “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together…” a. The background (Heb 10:34) The Hebrew Christians were facing a problem. b. The writer of the Hebrews encourages them to “hold fast the profession of their faith without wavering” (Heb 10:23). c. Then he commands them: “not forsaking the assembly of
// March 3rd, 2008 If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! The following thoughts about why we should go to church are from Donald Whitney’s book, Spiritual Disciplines Within the Church. They were compiled and sent to me by Ben Phillips, Family Team Ministry Leader of the ABSC. Two questions to ask yourself about your church….. • What’s in this church for me? • What’s in me for this church? 1. Going to church is a biblical requirement for all Christians. Hebrews 10:24-25 ” 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.” • Ultimately, whether or not you go to church is a question of whether you will obey God and submit to the authority of His word. • The church is not a department store where you come and get the spiritual commodity you want, then go your way. T
by Rolf Preus Workshop on Lutheran Liturgy for Laypeople Glory of Christ Lutheran Church Plymouth, Minnesota October 14, 2000 Several years ago a Lutheran pastor from Michigan did his own study of religious tracts that dealt with the topic of my talk today: Why go to church? He ordered about fifty such tracts from various groups, Reformed and Lutheran. The tracts gave any number of good reasons to go to church including to learn Gods word, to be spiritually enriched and strengthened, to enjoy Christian fellowship, to offer praise to God, etc. The primary reason for going to church, however, was entirely ignored by the Reformed tracts and barely mentioned by the Lutheran ones. I refer, of course, to the forgiveness of sins. We go to church for the forgiveness of sins. We go to church to get saved. We go to church so that we may find Jesus the Savior who gives us eternal life. Martin Luther wrote in the Smalcald Articles (III, XII), Thank God, a seven-year-old child knows what the church
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