Pastor, what do you wish your congregation would add to their New Year’s resolutions? Here’s one you should encourage your church members to include: resolve to gather with the church every Sunday.
Don’t encourage them to consider, think about, or merely entertain the idea of going to church. Encourage them to deliberately plan, arrange, and order their weeks and months so that they would be in the pews for those 52 Sundays.
Here are three reasons why.
1. THE BIBLE COMMANDS IT
If you are a Christian, the Bible commands you to gather regularly. Hebrews explicitly exhorts its readers to “not [neglect] to meet together, as is the habit of some” (Heb. 10:25). The New Testament provides a pattern, set by the apostles and early disciples, of meeting regularly on the first day of the week to hear the Word preached, break bread, and collect donations for the saints (Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:1–2).
Pastor, what hindrances do you see in your church members that prevent them from gathering? Life happens, of course. We shouldn’t be legalistic. We get sick or must travel. Yet we should exhort and encourage our people to obey our Lord and Savior.
One way to do this is by
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