Why do you go to church? Why should anyone go to church?
These are questions posed by many agnostics when they are trying to keep Christians from the fellowship of believers.
There is an old story that has circulated through my email on many occasions and it deals with the question of why do people go to church.
In a letter to the editor of a local newspaper a church goer once wrote that he had attended church for many years and heard over 3,000 sermons and could not remember a single one of them.
This letter inspired others to respond through letters of their own and one response really put this into perspective.
The writer stated that he had been married over 30 years and his wife has cooked over 32,000 meals but he couldn’t recall the entire menu of a single one of them.
He did say that even though he couldn’t remember everything about these meals he could remember that each one of them gave him nourishment and strength needed to do his work. If his wife had not provided these meals for him he would be physically dead today.
He also stated that if he had not gone to church for nourishment he would be spiritually dead today. Even though we hear many sermons, if we hear what the message is, then we are going to renew our commitment to the Lord and also to our fellow man. We may not remember everything about the sermon but we will never forget the message. It provides us food for our spiritual life and the desire to do what is right and to be happy in what we do.
We need to all remember that the church house we go to is just a building but the people that attend service in that building are the church. Remember what the writer of Hebrews said in Chapter 10 verse 25, “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.”
