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Why Go To Church
A Place To Belong
Why Go To Church
Confession of Faith
I am not moved by what I see or by what I feel.
I am moved by what I believe.
I believe the WORD of God!
The victory is mine!
I have it now!
I can see it through the eyes of my faith!
Last week we talked about “Helping Someone to See Jesus” We continue our series called “A Place To Belong”
Why go to church?
If you've ever found yourself wondering about that little question, you're not alone.
Surveys tell us that as many as 79% of Americans identify themselves as Christians,
yet Only 20% of Americans attend church regularly.
I guess some people look at going to church as a bother.
Others see it as sort of like punching a spiritual clock or earning brownie points with their Maker.
But to someone who understands church and what it's really all about, Going to church can be the most spiritually fulfilling, inspiring thing you do all week
The Book of Acts tells the story of how the church got started.
Fifty days after Jesus rose from the dead, he sent the Holy Spirit to empower his disciples.
They went out and began preaching about the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus—the Good News.
Millions of people listened, thousands believed
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I think we'd finally begin to realize
The real purpose of the church and why we meet together every week.
Today I want to show you 5 Reasons why the church exists and why you should be a part of it.
5 Reasons why the church exists and why you should be a part of it.
1. Membership
The first thing that church brings into our lives is membership.
In other words, The church gives us a place to belong.
The passage we read in Acts is absolutely flooded with fellowship.
Jesus gave these new believers a sense of community, belonging and togetherness at a level that you cannot find anywhere else in the world.
Jesus gave these new believers a sense of community, belonging and togetherness at a level that you cannot find anywhere else in the world.
All of us need a place to belong.
All of us need to be a part of something bigger than ourselves.
All of us need to experience family and fellowship.
One writer calls America "a nation of strangers, and
Studies show that 4 out of 10 people experience feeling of intense loneliness.
Here’s what I realize:
Everywhere you look, there are signs that people are hungering for fellowship, community, and a sense of family.
Beer commercials don't sell beer; they sell fellowship.
Advertisers don't portray someone drinking alone; it's always in the context of enjoying each other's company.
People long to be connected.
There are many analogies for a Christian disconnected from a church: a football player without a team; a soldier without a platoon; a tuba player without an orchestra; a sheep without a flock.
But the most understandable and biblical pictures is that of a child without a family.
That family is the church.
God does not want his children growing up in isolation from each other, so he created a spiritual family on earth for us.
A Christian without a church family is an orphan.
V Formation
This fall when you see geese heading south for the winter, flying along in V formation,
you might be interested in knowing what science has discovered about why they fly that way.
It has been learned that as each bird flaps its wings, it creates uplift for the bird immediately following.
By flying in a V formation, the whole flock adds at least 71% greater flying range than if each bird flew on its own.
Christians who share a common direction and a sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier, because they are traveling on the thrust on one another.
Also, when a goose gets sick or wounded and falls out of formation, two other geese follow him to help and protect him.
They stay with him until he is either able to fly, or until he is dead, and then they launch out to catch up with their group.
Jesus gave us the church so that we could do the same for one another: support each other and stand by each other when we're down and out.
2. Magnification
Secondly, church gives us an opportunity to magnify the God who made us.
It's not all about you.
It's about Jesus.
Church gives us an opportunity to worship God the Father and his Son Jesus, though the power of the Holy Spirit
worship is far more than what goes on in a building for one hour on Sunday mornings;
Worship is a way of life
The problem is when we are by ourselves, most of us don’t spend time in worship to God
The Telescope
you ever look through a telescope and saw how it made things bigger - so that you can see details?
When we magnify, or worship, God.
He becomes bigger in our hearts and lives as we stand in awe of his indescribable beauty,
his inexpressible splendor and incomprehensible wonder.
If you let yourself be truly immersed in worship, you will feel God's presence in this place, and it will stay with you.
3. Spiritual Maturity
Third, church helps lead us to spiritual maturity.
In other words, they were committed to learning more about Jesus, who was the focus of the apostles' teaching, and growing to become more like him.
Let me explain something that I don't think a lot of preachers say:
We don't study the Bible so that we can sound smart in Sunday school;
We study the Bible so that, through it, the Holy Spirit can change us and make us more like Christ.
The Holy Spirit uses a different methods to lead us into becoming more like Christ.
He often uses the circumstances of life—trials and tragedies—to shape our character.
He uses worship—as one writer put it Emerson once noted, "It behooves us to Be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming."
He also uses other people who are more spiritually mature than we are to help us to grow.
He definitely uses prayer—the more time you spend talking with God, the more you start to sound like him yourself.
But I still believe the tool he uses more than any other is God's Word.
In fact, the Bible calls the Word of God, the Sword of the Spirit.
As Rick Warren puts it, "The Spirit of God uses the Word of God to make you more like the Son of God."
4. Ministry
You were put on earth to make a contribution.
You weren't created just to consume resources—to eat, drink, and take up space.
God designed you to make a difference with your life.
You were created to add to life on earth.
While many best-selling books offer advice on how to get the most out of life, that's not why God made you.
You were created to add to life on earth.
God wants you to give something back.
God wants you to give something back.
We all have special gifts, abilities, experiences and interests that God has given us for ministry.
If you love to cook, you can make meals for shut-ins.
If you've got a heart for kids, you were probably made for children's ministry.
Who better to help a recovering alcoholic than someone who fought that demon and found freedom?
If you've been through the tragedy of divorce, God can use you to comfort others who are experiencing that same heartbreak.
The possibilities are limitless.
Unfortunately, so are the excuses.
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