One can know God casually and be saved. But He needs to be known intimately, so a Christian can grow in the image of Christ (Rom 8:29; 1Co 15:49; 2Co 3:18). How do we get to know God intimately? Through enough church attendance and Bible study. There’s no way He would allow a believer to grow without these two occurrences, for He desires all believers to be in fellowship with other believers. Sure, a few can regularly get together for Bible study, but that’s not corporate worship and corporate Bible study! Hebrews 10:25 admonishes saints “not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another.”
When a Christian does not attend a church, everything they need to grow is according to God’s desire is missing! God does everything to cause believers to want to be together, for that’s how He wants us—together. If you’re in a church you just don’t like, you can find one you will like. If you can’t find one you like, you are not really looking (“seek and ye shall find” - Mat 7:7).
One can only love another according to how one’s applicable love is to God: “If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen (1Jo 4:20)? Now, there’s no way you can love others the way our Father desires us to love, if you do not know those in a church.
I hope you can see that this article is only to admonish and not judge; and frankly, I do not think enough can be said towards admonishing believers to find a church they want to attend!
“Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy” (if you’re reborn – Jude 1:24; Rom 16:25; Eph 3:20).
When a Christian does not attend a church, everything they need to grow is according to God’s desire is missing! God does everything to cause believers to want to be together, for that’s how He wants us—together. If you’re in a church you just don’t like, you can find one you will like. If you can’t find one you like, you are not really looking (“seek and ye shall find” - Mat 7:7).
One can only love another according to how one’s applicable love is to God: “If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen (1Jo 4:20)? Now, there’s no way you can love others the way our Father desires us to love, if you do not know those in a church.
I hope you can see that this article is only to admonish and not judge; and frankly, I do not think enough can be said towards admonishing believers to find a church they want to attend!
“Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy” (if you’re reborn – Jude 1:24; Rom 16:25; Eph 3:20).
