The Church is not a physical building but the people who gather to worship the name of God.
For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them. ––Matthew 18:20
The word congregate comes from the Greek verb “sunago”, which means to gather together in harmony. Every believer should know the reason why they should gather. Some do it out of tradition, others out of habit, and still others simply out of compliance.
It is for this reason that we must learn about this topic, so that, as true believers, we do not fall into doing things without knowing why we do them; but rather, we do everything knowing its biblical basis.
The person who does not plant himself, hinders the will of God in his life.
Not everyone who comes to church is a believer. Some are “first cousins,” while others are “half-brothers”; that is to say that they are those who say they are Christians, but have not been born again. Everything exists in the churches. It is there where we can find the following types of people:
The goats. Who are the goats in a congregation?
“All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.” ––Matthew 25:32
They are people who come to church for convenience. They want, for example, their children to come and seek God, but they themselves are not born again. They are people who go looking for something occasionally, but when they leave, they continue in their sin and in their “minimal shame.”
“The lambs will provide your clothing and the goats the price of a field…” ––Proverbs 27:26
The sons and daughters of the house. On these falls all the responsibility of a church. They are the men and women who are fully committed to the church and the vision; those who no matter what happens, remain and bear fruit in the church. It is with the sons that a ministry can be built.
The average amount of sons or daughters in a local church is twenty percent of the total congregation.
Sometimes, we spend so much time in one place watching one man, that the time comes when we begin to depend more on him than on God, and we cannot receive from anyone else; therefore, if this fails, our life becomes a disaster, because we did not have our eyes on Jesus, but rather on the man.
We, as good believers, are supposed to model Jesus on others. However, keep in mind that there is only one perfect and righteous being in the universe who is the only one who can fill the empty and lonely heart; the only one who will never leave us: Jesus!
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