Get people to Church meetings!

It is an appropriate title for a Sunday don’t you think?

In calling us to draw near with boldness the author gives 3 instructions that will enable us to do just that. We have seen the first 2.

1. Make sure you we are all holding on to what we have believed and confessed.
2. Make sure we are all living a life of Agape
3. Make sure you get people to Church meetings!

“ … not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” (Hebrews 10 v 25)

A survey published only 5 years ago said that out of the then population of 61 million people in the UK, 35 million were Christian. Isn’t that amazing?!!

However out of the 35 million Christians only 9 million went to Church!

Do you ever wonder why people have stopped attending Church?

How sad it is when Churches have declined because people stopped going there.

“Personalities united can contain more of God and sustain the force of his greater presence better than scattered individuals.” Dallas Willard wisely said.

Transformation requires community. It is how and why we were created. But also hearing God, guidance, healing, His glory is better seen in community.

There are many in prisons of persecution today who would view it an anathema that there are 26 million Christians in the UK who are not in a construction called the Church.

It would appear that these 1^st century Christians were beginning to miss from the church gatherings. We don’t know why but maybe they were under pressure from people not to attend. Was this the daily meetings (can you imagine that commitment?) or was it now the Sunday gatherings? Whatever it was the Pastor was calling the people to make sure they encourage one another to not give up attending.

Is there someone you can encourage with this today?