The
Need And Blessing Of Church Attendance
Elder
O. B. Mink
Retired
Sovereign Grace Baptist Pastor
"And
let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works."
(Hebrews 10:24)
1.) You cannot have the proper consideration for your brothers and sisters
in Christ, and be unfaithful to the church where they meet.
2.) You cannot provoke your brothers and sisters in Christ unto love, unless
you are faithful to the church that Christ loved and died for.
3.) You cannot provoke good works unless your church work is good. When
the super structure of your Christian life is flimsy, people will be suspicious
of the foundation upon which it is built. The church is the pillar and
ground of the truth. (I Timothy 3:15)
"Love and good works" are the fruit of faithfulness to the Lord's house,
and apart from his path of obedience to Christ, love wanes and good works
go wanting.
Every part of the body is given to complement every other part of the body,
and to become a hindrance rather than a help is to impair the efficiency
of the whole body. The Lord's church is His executive body on earth, and
careless disregard of duty thereto creates an additional burden upon the
already struggling brothers and sisters of the church.
Every member is either a blessing or a burden to the church, and one sure
way to be a blessing and have loving concern for our fellow pilgrims is
to meet constantly with them at the Lord's house. Then, shall the world
around us know that we have been with one another, and that we all have
been with Jesus. To habitually miss the services of the church is to abuse
one of the greatest privileges we have, and it is to shirk in a shameful
way our responsibility to Christ and His church which He so lovingly considered,
worked and died for. Can we, or will we be so ungrateful as to reproach
Him by failing to meet with Him and His faithful people at the appointed
time? God forbid!
"Not
forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is;
but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."
(Hebrews 10: 25)
(The
Baptist Herald - September, 1996)
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