Earlier this year at a small gathering of Global Leadership Summit (GLS) site pastors Pastor Bill Hybels of Willow Creek Community Church lead a mentoring session where we could share recent learnings in the leading of our respective churches. Through the course of dialogue Bill brought up the importance of reminding our congregations why it is important to go to church. What he shared gripped me and I have often referred back to my notes.
As we head into the holiday seasons and our schedules get a little fuller and a little less routine with various gatherings to attend and travel. It can be real easy to de-prioritize church attendance. So now is as good a time as any to remind ourselves why we need make going to church a priority.
So here my notes from that gathering. The content below I will be presenting in my message this weekend.
1. Jesus modeled it for us. He made it a practice of His. Luke 4:16 When he came to Nazareth, where he hadbeen brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom.
2. You are not in it alone -- you are not crazy.
3. Important for our children. Your kids are depending on you, they cannot drive themselves.
4. The Power of the Manifest Presence of God. Matthew 18:20 "For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them."
5. Out of Discipline and Obedience. Hebrews 10:24, 25 "And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching."
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