Because this election cycle needs a reminder of a different time. Faithful church attendance is an essential part for Christian discipleship and required by God (Hebrews 10:24–25). Even President Theodore Roosevelt strongly agreed. That’s why he wrote an article for the Ladies’ Home Journal in 1917 called “Shall We Do Away with the Church?” in which […]
Church Attendance
Why Go to Church? 50+ Things You Miss Out On By Not Attending
According to recent Pew Research data, only 35% of American Christians consider attending religious services as an essential part of their faith.1 Only 28% listed ‘helping out in your congregation’ as essential. It appears that the majority of self-proclaimed Christians do not know how to answer the question, “Why go to church?” We can point […]
Life-Changing Sentences: J.I. Packer on Fellowship
John Piper has famously and repeatedly said, “Books don’t change people, paragraphs do — sometimes sentences.” This new blog series “Life-Changing Sentences” takes that to heart and shares powerful sentences from Christian writers on a variety of topics. “Christian fellowship is…not an end in itself. Fellowship between Christians is for the sake of fellowship with […]
Why attend church? The Ministry of Showing Up
In his short book How to Walk into Church (my review), Tony Payne describes the ‘ministry of turning up’*, that is, attending church: One of the most important acts of love and encouragement we can all engage in is the powerful encouragement of just being there—because every time I walk into church, I am wearing […]
