Why do we go to church?
Question: Why do we go to church?
Maybe you don’t currently attend church. And certainly people attend Sunday services for a variety of reasons, not all of which are illustrious or noble reasons.
But can we agree that the primary reason we should attend church is to worship God? Our songs, sermon, communion, and all other activities are useless if they do not, in some way, praise the Lord.
Question #2: Why do we really go?
Personally, I have to admit that sometimes I don’t go out of an eager, profound desire to worship God. Sometimes I go reluctantly, out of obligation. Other times, my main motivation seems to be to see friends there. I feel like I need to constantly reorient my thinking back to God, the whole reason why we are meeting together in the first place.
If you attend church, why do you go? And if you don’t, why not?
Further Reading: The Church is for Sinners, not Saints – “When I first became a Christian, I thought church was only for perfect people. I didn’t understand that the purpose of the church is to give a hand to the sick, not pat the healthy on the back.”
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I started going to church when I was eleven years young and today I am 50 years younger. I love church. I have seen and heard of the amazing things God has done in the lives of other believers. I have heard testimonies about how one person gave extra in the offering and received an increase in salary along with a promotion. I have heard how giving to God he gives back, like one minister lady, gave extra and she was blessed with new furniture and a baby grand piano. I have seen the Holy Ghost move through the church touching the members with his presence as a cloud covered the sanctuary where his presence was obvious. I have heard a testimony of God’s healing powere healing one minister of cancer because she saw herself laying prostrate under the cross of Jesus as his blood dripped off his feet to her body, when she went to the doctor the cancer was gone. I have seen demons cast out of teenage girl who was smoking cigarettes, and sexually active. I have seen the men and women of God began and end 40 day fasts and when the fast was broken how the power of the Holy Spirit was magnified in them and how they ministered so greatly after these fasts, and how the members were in awe of His Presence. I know for a fact that in my lifetime I would have never been able to see this anywhere else, but CHURCH! I love it. I love it so much to be in the house of God’s presence that I wish that I could lock myself in and always be in his house, but I know that the ministry of Christ begans at home and should flow to the highways and hedges, but I can tell you this, from going to church I have seen what God can and will do. I heard of His Greatness and I am proud to be called a saint.
I don’t go. Well, first and foremost, I’m not a Christian, but even in my own faith, I don’t attend regular gatherings. For one thing, I don’t follow a single established tradition, and I’m not sure how favourably people would receive that. For another, I get sick of routines, and I don’t ever want any aspect of my religion to become something I feel like I have to do.