WHY DO WE COME TO CHURCH?

Church service by Pastor Walt Scott

5/7/2012

Songs: I Really Love the Lord

You Are Everything To Me

Why do we come to Church? To listen to the music, the Pastor, fellowship, socialize, or something else? Or all of these?

Why do we really feel, in our heart, the need to worship and fellowship in God's house? I think it's because the church is the Body of Christ and we are all a part of that body. We are all connected parts of this body, and need each other to function well.

Do you think Father God, and His Son Jesus Christ love you? Does the Holy Spirit live in you? Praise God. Thank You Father. Amen.

Songs: Old Rugged Cross

Why then, when we enter God's house do some of us greet, shake hands, hug, laugh and talk to some people and avoid others? And then graduate to our comfort zone group? Aren't we all brothers and sisters in this world, regardless of ethnicity or other challenges life has brought our way? Didn't Jesus say the most important thing is to love God with all your heart, mind, body and soul and also important is to love each other? Yes, He did.

If we can be loving brothers and sisters in church with believers, why not outside the church? If we can't be like this to everyone in church we need healing and reconciliation. If we are to be called Christians that follow after Jesus Christ and His teachings we have to live it and be it continuously. Be the Good News.

Would He have sacrificed everything for us if He didn't love us and think of us as brothers, sisters, and friends? Do we love Jesus? Does Jesus love us?

Only through understanding God's love for us, by the example of Jesus' ultimate sacrifice, and by His grace can we achieve the kingdom of Heaven.

Song: Amazing Grace

We come to church to find the peace, trust, honesty, serenity, hope and love that is impossible to find or achieve in the world outside; even though some of us never realize this and never stop searching. I call this finding the freedom that God intended for us to abide in-- Real spiritual freedom and everlasting life when we leave this world.

We are the believers and the faithful. God sent His son Jesus with a promise for us. We are the reality of that promise to the unbelieving, confused, people of this world. And He left the Holy Spirit to live in us and teach us, and guide our every step.

We believe what God's Word (the Bible) says. We believe and have faith that every word spoken is true and has happened or will happen. Should we abide by it? Yes, absolutely. Even though much of it is still beyond our understanding.

Talk to people. Let the Spirit move in you when you tell others the Good News. You can laugh, cry, rejoice in the joy that revelation brings. Just don't scare people with visions of hell or try to push beyond what they are willing to accept at that time. That only pushes people away and confirms what the world says about Christians. Slow and easy. Live it and be it.

Can we, as brothers and sisters, believers and faithful in following the teachings of Father God and His son Jesus, hold our Bibles high and proclaim a covenant with Him-- that we will daily make every effort to speak to the unspoken to, teach the untaught, and pray to and with the unbelievers for their deliverance and for them to be born again? Praise God. Thank you Jesus! Thank you for what and who we are, what we have, and what we are to become. Amen.

Songs: Apple of Your Eye by Steve Clark

I Have Decided To Follow Jesus