My Church matters

You, as a Christian, are incomplete without other Christians.

One of the most important teachings of Christ is about love—specifically, the love of God and our neighbor. As it is stated in Matthew 22:40 (NKJV),

On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.

As a Christian, you cannot completely fulfill these two commandments without your fellow believers. This was made clear to the members of the New Testament Church, and 1 John 4:20 (CEV) tells us as much:

But if we say we love God and don’t love each other, we are liars. We cannot see God. So how can we love God, if we don’t love the people we can see?

To love our God, we need to love one another. Our love for one another is proof of our love for God, our Father. Having other Christians in the church that we can love and serve helps us fulfill these two great commandments. Hopefully, this can motivate us to cherish our local church and form a meaningful relationship with our fellow Christians.

Fellowship allows Christians to experience the fullness of God.

Although fellowship is not limited to the church, it is undeniably the best venue for Christian fellowship. The local church you are involved with is a great avenue to find friends of the same belief and a whole group of people that you can call your family.

Without this fellowship, you cannot experience the fullness of God. Apostle Paul explains this in Ephesians 3:17-19,

“…that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height; to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.“

The fullness pertained to here is not regarding his fullness as God, but his fullness as a God to his people. We need one another, the church community, in our fellowship to be filled with this fullness of God.

With that in mind, let’s not neglect Sunday worship in our local church. After every worship service is a great time for fellowship with our Christian family, over tea and coffee or lunch.

The Church helps in nurturing and growing your faith.
[The church also becomes a place where your God-given gifts can be utilized to serve others and lead more people to salvation.]
The church also becomes a place where your God-given gifts can be utilized to serve others and lead more people to salvation. Another key reason why church matters is that it helps grow and nurture your faith by demonstrating spiritual disciplines. 

Through the church, you can better understand the grace of the Almighty and be motivated to participate in Christ’s mission. The church can help you understand how the holy spirit works in our lives and how to see God’s plan in action. The church also becomes a place where your God-given gifts can be utilized to serve others and lead more people to salvation. You can be called to a ministry that will hone your skills and strengthen your resolve in life as a Christian.

No matter what your perspective on this matter is or how the local church acts on this duty, the church is undeniably the main corrective body for Christians.

Christ uses the Church as his instrument to do great deeds in the world.

As his body, the church is the extension of the Lord that carries out his mission and great deeds on this earth. He watches over us from heaven and guides the church to ensure his will is being carried out and all people on earth may hear the truth.

Through the church, Christ’s gospel is preached to the world, so people may hear and believe. Those who have heard and accepted the message then become members of the church. New disciples then become ready to preach the gospel themselves, so more and more can become believers. This is the spiritual aspect of how churches become the instrument of Jesus.

In the material aspect, churches are active in local communities, finding ways to help members of the community—regardless of their beliefs. Churches can help by feeding and clothing the homeless, providing shelter to those in need, and conducting various free programs that enrich the lives of members of the community, among others.

Each local church can do such deeds for the community through every involved believer in the ministry. Then the church, through all their local churches, can help every community they can reach.

Being in the Church allows you to take part in the mission.

The church is essential to fully become involved in the mission. To make disciples of people in the world, they need to continuously learn in the church to preach the gospel themselves.

We need to take our part in the great commission. So, take it upon yourself to find a local church and be part of proclaiming God’s glory and Christ’s sacrifice.