Approaching Worship

How should we approach corporate worship? Before coming to church we should have gotten our relationship right with God. Our sins should have been confessed, repented of, forgiveness accepted and our relationship restored with God. We should come with clean hands and pure hearts. Don't wait til the end of the service to deal with your sins. How can you truly worship if your sins are not forgiven and your relationship with God is not right? Corporate worship begins before we enter the church doors.

Why do you go to church?

Sometimes when you do a search for a word, you never know what gem you will come up with. I ran across Christine's website. http://thisistemporary.wordpress.com/ and she had posted a question, "Why do you go to church?" So I thought it was a very good question and I thought I would post my answer to that.

Well, I have been going every Sunday for almost 50 years. I have gone for many reasons. To meet others, draw off what encouragement they can give, Because I had to, because of habit, because I was expected to be there, so I wouldn’t get a visit during the week from the preacher or others, to get something from the sermon. but over the last couple of years I have found a new reason and that is to worship God. All those other reasons are temporal and changing. God is the only constant in this universe and He is never changing. I find when I go to church for the purpose of worshiping God and that is my focus, I come away having been blessed. I hear people walk away from church saying, “I didn’t get anything out of that message.” They went in the wrong attitude of getting instead of giving. I find that when I give to God (Not necessarily in money) I get from God. Or they were disappointed that there friend wasn’t there or someone didn’t encourage them the way they ought to be encouraged. People are changing and God is not. Our reason for going to church is important.

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Why do you go to church?

Sunday Morning Worship

As I prepare my heart for worship this morning (do you prepare your heart for worship before going to church) (Worship on Sunday Morning is the sum of your private worship during the week) Again, As I prepare my heart for worship this morning, I find myself drawn, compelled, desiring, almost like a drug, to go to church and be with other believers and worship my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Humans were created with a need to worship something, if it is not God it will be something else. I hope yall have a wonderful day in God's house. God Bless.