The Best Reason to Join a Church

Join for God

  • Join a Church for the sake of God's name.
    • The building up of the church is ultimately GOD'S work.  The LORD added to their number daily those who were being saved (Acts 2:42, 47).
    • Saul, Saul, why do you persecute ME (Acts 9:4).  Jesus so closely identified himself with His church that He said Saul was persecuting Him when he was persecuting the church. 
    • If Jesus identified himself closely with the church, we should too.  By our being together in a church, we are giving testimony and praise to God through our lives as we live and love each other together.
    • It would be easy to put on programs and attract people, and allow people to enjoy being in the choir and having homogenous friendships in small groups, but never deal with the most important issues. 
    • We could service people socially, but will they be committed to pray, give, serve, love, and attend?  These are the marks of a faithful Christian, and these are the characteristics and actions that give God glory in the church.
  • Join a Church for the sake of God's cause.
    • God wants His glory displayed and His gospel spread to all the nations. 
    • "It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also make you a light to the nations so that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth" (Isa 49:6).
    • We can take God's glory and gospel to the nations better if we band together than if we remain alone. 
    • Being part of God's plan to spread His glory and gospel to all nations is a privilege that we will not have in heaven.  We seize the privilege of evangelism best if we work together as one diverse unity.