Encourage One Another

Hebrews 3:13-14 (The Message) So watch your step, friends. Make sure there's no evil unbelief lying around that will trip you up and throw you off course, diverting you from the living God. For as long as it's still God's Today, keep each other on your toes so sin doesn't slow down your reflexes. If we can only keep our grip on the sure thing we started out with, we're in this with Christ for the long haul.

When it comes to attending church, how often is often enough? Some have said they do not need to go to church to worship God, but that they can worship Him anywhere. That is true. And if the only purpose for church was to worship God, perhaps that reasoning might stand. But there is so much more that takes place in a body of believers than corporate worship. The writer of Hebrews entreats Christians to "encourage one another daily." Throughout the New Testament, we are taught the principles of caring for fellow Christians-that, "Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others" (Phil 2:4). Brief Sunday morning encounters seldom provide opportunity to truly encourage, or to be encouraged. Anyone who believes he does not need the church does not understand the purpose of the church, and is driven more by selfish desire than godly vision. Therefore, "Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another-and all the more as you see the Day approaching" (Heb. 10:25).

May God Bless you EXCEEDINGLY, ABUNDANTLY, ABOVE ALL YOU CAN ASK OR THINK!