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Post by Visitor on Oct 4, 2007 8:39:13 GMT -5
What is the SINGLE most important reason for going to Sunday morning church?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2007 9:07:33 GMT -5
WE READ that in the book of Acts the disciples and others met on the Sunday. On three such occurrences Jesus met with them. In gathering on the Sunday we want to set aside normal affairs and celebrate fellowship with one another, and the spirit of Christ who has promised that where a few are gathered in his name, there will he be also.
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Post by So on Oct 4, 2007 9:21:53 GMT -5
WE READ that in the book of Acts the disciples and others met on the Sunday. On three such occurrences Jesus met with them. In gathering on the Sunday we want to set aside normal affairs and celebrate fellowship with one another, and the spirit of Christ who has promised that where a few are gathered in his name, there will he be also. So what is the single most important reason------ To celebrate? Or to just have a fellowship get togather? You have answered to complex for my simple mind. Lets try it another way. If you answer using one word what would that word be? Not to exclude "JESUS" because we (all christians) gather with HIM in mind. So I am thinking there must me another reason. Example Worship rememberance celebrate fellowship....and so forth.
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Post by diet coke on Oct 4, 2007 9:32:32 GMT -5
Are we polling opinions, here, or scriptural interpretations? I'd put such words as comfort, regeneration, renewal, settling, peace-finding at the top of my list.
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Post by Visitor on Oct 4, 2007 9:49:06 GMT -5
I asked for the Single most important reason. So far there has been no single answer. I like the thought of using one word.
Is there one word for the morst important reason for going to church on sunday morning and if so what would it be? Yes this is opinion poll but also a biblical question.
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Post by follow the leader on Oct 4, 2007 10:06:37 GMT -5
Well, in "the truth" it's because that's what the system dictates and everyone is too stuck on that to deviate or, heaven forbid, do what their God-guided heart tells them to do
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Post by To Be Honest on Oct 4, 2007 10:39:25 GMT -5
Tradition
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Post by Scott Ross on Oct 4, 2007 12:00:03 GMT -5
Worship (with like minded believers) Scott
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Post by pilgrim on Oct 4, 2007 13:11:41 GMT -5
The SINGLE most important reason for being at the Sunday morning worship / communion service is to: feed on the Lamb (Christ) (His Life).
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Post by Visitor on Oct 4, 2007 13:51:03 GMT -5
More answers please. I am still trying to gather as many single simple thoughts on this questions.
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Post by wanttobewithGod on Oct 4, 2007 16:26:09 GMT -5
Imo, edification. We can do that without going to church, yes, but some are more disciplined than others...not that we shouldn't be doing it every day...we surely should!! But....fellowship and worship...but edification of our soul would be most important to me...we should worship God, at least in our hearts, all the time.... M.
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Post by gloryintruth on Oct 4, 2007 17:57:19 GMT -5
What is the SINGLE most important reason for going to Sunday morning church?
For me there are a number of important reasons.
Firstly, I am commanded by God not to forsake the assembling of myself together with the rest of the Church.
Secondly, I am moved and prompted by the Holy Spirit to such an extent it would be impossible for me to do otherwise.
Thirdly, I have a need from the depth of my soul to worship God publically as opposed to the ongoing private worship.
Fourthly, to hear the word of God.
Fifth, to participate in the Passover of the New Testament, the communion supper when we literally enter the presence of Christ in a real and almost overwhelming way.
Sixth, to be reminded that life is a transitory place; I am born into a death but I seek life in Jesus, and the life of the world to come.
Seventh, because I want to be there!
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Post by Visitor on Oct 4, 2007 21:44:36 GMT -5
What is the SINGLE most important reason for going to Sunday morning church?For me there are a number of important reasons. Firstly, I am commanded by God not to forsake the assembling of myself together with the rest of the Church. Secondly, I am moved and prompted by the Holy Spirit to such an extent it would be impossible for me to do otherwise. Thirdly, I have a need from the depth of my soul to worship God publically as opposed to the ongoing private worship. Fourthly, to hear the word of God. Fifth, to participate in the Passover of the New Testament, the communion supper when we literally enter the presence of Christ in a real and almost overwhelming way. Sixth, to be reminded that life is a transitory place; I am born into a death but I seek life in Jesus, and the life of the world to come. Seventh, because I want to be there! GIT, I requested that people share what they think is the SINGLE most important reason for going to Sunday morning church. Of your list which is the single most important to you?
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Post by ithascome on Oct 4, 2007 22:05:02 GMT -5
Jesus’ command that we "love one another" (John 13:34-35) Perhaps this is the single most important reason... LOVE
Remember when Jesus washed his disciples feet... To wash another’s feet is to take on the role of a servant. It is to place the needs of others before our own, to care for them, to love them, support them, encourage them, heal them and forgive them.
Maybe we have forgotten the real reason ... it is not to receive ... but it is to give.
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Post by freedom on Oct 4, 2007 22:06:01 GMT -5
I believe that the single most important reason for church being on Sunday morning is because that is the way our culture is set up. People get off work, yadda yadda yadda, because that is church day. It is just easier to go along with the flow and hold all church services on Sunday morning.
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Post by Visitor on Oct 4, 2007 22:20:34 GMT -5
I believe that the single most important reason for church being on Sunday morning is because that is the way our culture is set up. People get off work, yadda yadda yadda, because that is church day. It is just easier to go along with the flow and hold all church services on Sunday morning. Ok lets just say going to a weekly Church gathering. OK what is the singly most important reason for this?
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Post by freedom on Oct 4, 2007 22:29:51 GMT -5
Oh, that's much easier. For me it is for the socialization. I am known to miss the service, and arrive in time for the social hour .
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Post by i made it out on Oct 5, 2007 10:53:57 GMT -5
haveTOorIwillGOtoHELL (at least that's what is taught)
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Post by timber on Oct 5, 2007 11:08:33 GMT -5
Worship
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Post by Encourage on Oct 5, 2007 19:50:39 GMT -5
I attend church to worship the Living God. To give Him glory and praise. I also appreciate the message given by our pastor..the teaching of His Holy Word. Fellowship with other belivers is wonderful.
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Post by lizzy on Oct 5, 2007 21:41:26 GMT -5
Worship
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Post by Sylvestra on Oct 5, 2007 21:46:59 GMT -5
Are we polling opinions, here, or scriptural interpretations? I'd put such words as comfort, regeneration, renewal, settling, peace-finding at the top of my list. I can get all of these things (anytime) without going to Sunday AM meeting! E
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Post by Sylvestra on Oct 5, 2007 21:54:38 GMT -5
What is the SINGLE most important reason for going to Sunday morning church? To me, there is no particular reason for GATHERING in a Sunday morning service. (And the "not forsaking yourselves to gather" does not, in my understanding, apply to Sunday morning church service.) However, I remember Sunday to commemorate the FEAST OF WEEKS, which is representative of the resurrection of Christ. It is common knowledge that His DEATH fulfilled passover, but His resurrection fulfilled the feast of weeks. It was on this day that the "first fruits" were offered up. Best regards, Edy
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Post by Nichole M on Oct 6, 2007 1:14:14 GMT -5
When I was a part of the 2x2's it was for "Fellowship" - Just as the Sun AM Meeting is considered a "Fellowship" Meeting.
Now it is for "Worship"
Nichole
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Post by Forsake assembling context on Oct 6, 2007 10:44:31 GMT -5
"Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together"
There is a synecdoche (a part put for the whole) in the word ‘assembling,’ and it is put for the whole worship of Christ, because worship was performed in their assemblies; and he that forsakes the assemblies, forsakes the worship of Christ, as some of them did when exposed to danger. What is here dehorted is the total relinquishment of Christianity. It is not "Cease not to attend the assembly," but "forsake not," abandon not the assembling of yourselves together. It is not the sin of sloth or of schism which is here considered.
The Greek word for "Forsake not" is a very strong and emphatic one, being a double compound, and signifies "to abandon in time of danger."
It is the word used by the agonizing Redeemer on the Cross, when He cried, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?"
It was used by Him again when He declared, "Thou wilt not leave My soul in hell, neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption" (Acts 2:27).
It is the word employed by Paul in 2 Timothy 4:10, "Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world."
It is found in only one other place in this epistle, where it is in obvious antithesis from the verse now before us: "He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee" (Heb. 13:5).
Thus, it will appear that a total and final abandonment of the public profession of Christianity is what is here warned against.
One may therefore discern how that verse 25 supplies a most appropriate link between verses 23, 24 and verse 26. Verse 25 prescribes another means to enable the wavering Hebrews to remain constant in the Christian faith.
If they were to "hold fast the confession of faith without wavering,"
and if they were to "consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works,"
then they must not "forsake the assembling" of themselves together.
The word for "assembling together" is a double compound, and occurs elsewhere in the New Testament only in 2 Thessalonians 2:1: "our gathering together unto Him," that is unto Christ; this also shows that the "assembling together" here is under one Head, and that the "forsaking" is because He has been turned away from.
To enforce the above caution, the apostle adds, "as the manner of some is."
The Greek word for "manner" signifies "custom," and is so translated in Luke 2:42.
This supplies additional confirmation that the evil against which the Hebrews were dehorted was no mere occasionally absenting themselves from the Christian churches, but a deliberate, fixed and final departure from them.
In John 6:66 we read that "From that time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him";
John also wrote of those who "went out from us, but they were not of us" (1 John 2:19);
whilst at the close of his labors Paul had to say "All they which are in Asia be turned away from me" (2 Tim. 1:15).
So here, some who had made a profession of the Christian faith had now abandoned the same and gone back to Judaism.
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Post by More for GITBert on Oct 6, 2007 10:49:34 GMT -5
"And so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."
There seems little room for doubt that the first reference here is to the destruction of the Jewish commonwealth, which was now very nigh, for this epistle was written within less than eight years before Jerusalem was captured by Titus.
That terrible catastrophe had been foretold, again and again, by Israel’s prophets, and was plainly announced by the Lord Jesus in Luke 21.
The approach of that dreadful "day" could be plainly seen or perceived by those possessing spiritual discernment: the continued refusal of the Nation to repent of their murder of Christ, and the abandoning of Christianity for an apostate Judaism by such large numbers, clearly presaged the bursting of the storm of God’s judgment.
This very fact supplied an additional motive for genuine Christians to remain faithful.
The Lord Jesus promised that His followers should be preserved from the destruction of Jerusalem, but only as they attended to His cautions in Luke 21:8, 19, 34, etc., only as they persevered in faith and holiness, Matthew 24:13.
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Post by Peacemaker on Oct 6, 2007 17:12:18 GMT -5
What is the SINGLE most important reason for going to Sunday morning church? Fellowship- fellowship with God and with one another in Sunday worship.
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Post by shushy on Oct 6, 2007 18:14:38 GMT -5
Worship ..I agree with Scott
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