Remember the old days? When you don't miss church service when you were highly committed to God, but gradually your love for God is waxing cold as the days goes by. You could remember how you do attend the church service 6 of every 7 Sundays. But sadly, it seems that the commitment is gone, and we only attend church about half the time (about 2 Sundays per month), and the less-committed attend even less than that. What has gone wrong?
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Proverbs 3:5-8
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh, And strength to your bones.
This is a tragic departure, and all over the world seem to be showing the exact same trend. People just don’t seem to be all that “into” God anymore. Every person you see today are busy than ever, nobody wants to pay attention to the things of God anymore, and things are not going to work that way. Others have been disillusioned by churches or other “religious” people, so they use that as a “medium” for why they do not want to attend church any longer.
Sundays have become a day of fun, you see people going out there to play football, golf and all of that, instead of getting yourself ready and go to church to learn the word of God that will save your soul.
Some people always say it's not about going to church that makes you a true Christian. Technically ill say yes. But God's plan is way farther than that.
Matthew 16:18
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock, I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Now, this scripture is bringing God's idea to us, rather than just a mans idea. A person who would say, I don’t need the church, to me that is a departure from God’s plan. I would advise against that.Do not take that as your example.
I talked about this some time ago if you followed up with my post of recent time.
Today I could easily see how people are being influenced, not just the youth, but even the adult are also influenced too, by their friends and the people with whom they spend time with.
It's high time you come to believe that we are basically a composite of the five people with whom we spend the most of our time with. This is why we need to be in church when it's called for, we need to choose to right people there that will draw us more closer to God than unbelievers.
Apostle Paul taught us to encourage ourselves.
Hebrews 3:13
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
When our spiritual gifts are being used by serving the local church community, we gradually become better-grounded theologically. we would no longer see ourselves as children who are being tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine that comes our way, by the trickery nature of men.
Ephesians 4:14
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
