Doing Church

Thanks to certain life changes,  I've recently had the opportunity to examine my own temperament and motives. This examination is something I highly recommend,  by the way, because it turns out you might actually surprise yourself.

For example, in moving my family a thousand miles away from our home of seven years, and in spending my first two weeks here -- and, in fact, even in the weeks leading UP TO the decision to come out to Wisconsin, I began to discover that (holy cow!) I am a very relational person. Many of you are nodding along because, of course we're relational people! Who isn't? No man is an island and all that. Well, some of us are a bit slower. But yes -- it turns out that community is actually very important to human beings in general.

In fact, Genesis 2:18 tells us that, after He made man, God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone," and proceeded to make him a helpmate of his own flesh. 

The need for human companionship is a part of who we are as people. It is in our very DNA. It is not only important but vital to us to have the company of somebody with shared experience. 

And that being the case,  how much more important is it to have communion with fellow believers? Very. In fact, Scripture mentions this specifically in Hebrews:

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. (Hebrews. 10:24-25)

It is God's desire that we come together in His name. Whether it's a home church of two or three families or a megachurch of two or ten thousand, God's will is that we develop personal and meaningful relationships with one another, iron sharpening iron, and encouraging one another in obedience to Him.