03/01/12 COME PREPARED
Sometimes we cannot attend worship, study or fellowship, therefore, when we are able to attend, we should make every effort to gather together with an eager, submissive, loving spirit. We must align our week, to make worship, study and fellowship a major priority, since God has arranged this as a time for us to praise, learn and grow. God is planning on our presence, and He offers presents to those who come. So come with open hearts, heads and hands. (He. 10:25).
A friend recently was singing the praises of TV evangelists and the service they provide to shut-ins. What a shame, what an indictment, that a church would neglect or abandon its own people, who are incapacitated, and give them into the hands of strangers.
Hebrews 10:22-25
(22) Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
(23) Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
(24) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
(25) Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
