Dear believer who isn’t in church:
It already feels legalistic, this article, doesn’t it? Like I’m about to recite a long list of things you must do as a Christian. I’m not.
My aim isn’t to tell you all the things you aren’t doing. I have way too much taking care of the log in my own eye. My aim is to show you what you are missing.
For some of you, it’s not that you don’t like the church, it’s just that – well, LIFE.
Maybe you’re a college student, raised up in the church and launched with much prayer. Student life is so erratic and the weekends are so filled that you just haven’t plugged into a church body.
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Maybe you’re a young couple busy kindling careers. You love some Kari Jobe and you have personal devotions, but Sundays have become time to catch up on sleep or get together with friends.
Maybe you have a busy family with multiple kids in multiple sports — elite leagues that require traveling every weekend and commitments for Sunday games and practices.
Perhaps you’re an empty nester and now that the kids are gone, you just don’t feel the same compelling need to be in church or serve in church and little by little, you’ve stepped away from church altogether.
Or maybe, you don’t actually like the church. Someone at church hurt you deeply. Someone offended you – maybe someone in leadership who should have known better — and so you’ve decided you’ll keep Jesus but reject the church.
Is church really necessary for the Christian? I want to share 5 reasons why you can’t do without church as a Christian.
