Comments on: Pastor Reverend Doctor Bishop Elder so-and-so http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/pastor-reverend-doctor-bishop-elder-so-and-so Engaging the culture by challenging the status quo Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark La Roi http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/pastor-reverend-doctor-bishop-elder-so-and-so/comment-page-1#comment-526 Mark La Roi Sun, 17 Apr 2005 12:57:32 +0000 /?p=650#comment-526 "Church attendance (Be it a large, small or tiny body) is vital to the continued growth of a believer." If you do not desire the fellowship, then you don't. If you do, you'll look for it. We ARE the Church, so when we gather regularly we fulfil scripture's command to gather. "Go to church" simply describes the regular gathering. You have not disputed the benefits I spoke of in regular attendance, so does that mean you recognize them? If so, then you already understand the importance of gathering. If however, you dispute the benefits I brought up, then there is much more to your situation than just not wanting to meet together. I don't say that to sound harsh, just to urge you to ask God yourself why it is that this barrier has come up in your life and what is the best way to deal with it. “Church attendance (Be it a large, small or tiny body) is vital to the continued growth of a believer.”

If you do not desire the fellowship, then you don’t. If you do, you’ll look for it. We ARE the Church, so when we gather regularly we fulfil scripture’s command to gather. “Go to church” simply describes the regular gathering.

You have not disputed the benefits I spoke of in regular attendance, so does that mean you recognize them? If so, then you already understand the importance of gathering. If however, you dispute the benefits I brought up, then there is much more to your situation than just not wanting to meet together.

I don’t say that to sound harsh, just to urge you to ask God yourself why it is that this barrier has come up in your life and what is the best way to deal with it.

]]> By: Mark La Roi http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/pastor-reverend-doctor-bishop-elder-so-and-so/comment-page-1#comment-525 Mark La Roi Sat, 16 Apr 2005 00:44:41 +0000 /?p=650#comment-525 Church attendance (Be it a large, small or tiny body) is vital to the continued growth of a believer. In regular fellowship we sharpen each other, encourage each other, rebuke each other, provide feedback to each other, hold each other accountable, share in each other's joys and pains, are challenged to love those who walk in the door even if they are nothing like those we'd normally gather with and by such are stretched, we listen to the Word together and can dig deeply into it together, we can watch each other over weeks months and years to see how our growth and the growth of others is or isn't coming along which those next to us all the time or almost never can't provide. There is much more, including the fulfillment of the Biblical mandate of Hebrews 10:25-27. Yes, there are people inthe Church who are hypocrites, but Christ said that from the start so it should not surprise us. The failures of others gives us no excuse to follow suit purposely. Be encouraged, there is a remnant. Church attendance (Be it a large, small or tiny body) is vital to the continued growth of a believer. In regular fellowship we sharpen each other, encourage each other, rebuke each other, provide feedback to each other, hold each other accountable, share in each other’s joys and pains, are challenged to love those who walk in the door even if they are nothing like those we’d normally gather with and by such are stretched, we listen to the Word together and can dig deeply into it together, we can watch each other over weeks months and years to see how our growth and the growth of others is or isn’t coming along which those next to us all the time or almost never can’t provide.

There is much more, including the fulfillment of the Biblical mandate of Hebrews 10:25-27. Yes, there are people inthe Church who are hypocrites, but Christ said that from the start so it should not surprise us. The failures of others gives us no excuse to follow suit purposely.

Be encouraged, there is a remnant.

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