Let’s go to church

Growing up my family didn’t miss church for any reason other than illness. Even on vacation we would find a place to go to church. I was a rebellious person and really didn’t like being told I had to do things so being made to go to church really bothered me. In the last five years the number of teens and twenties leaving the church has increased. This year with covid and churches meeting online that number reached an all time high. This concerns me. Let me explain. You see if my Dad and Mom would have let me stay home and have nothing to do with church I may never have come to trust and believe in Jesus. It wouldn’t have been a big deal because my parents wouldn’t have taught me that it was. I would have had that take it or leave it either way is fine approach to my own faith. I’m so glad that my parents made me go now!! Hebrews 10:23-25 says let us hold unswervingly to the faith we profess for he who promised is faithful. And let us spur one another on towards love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another all the more as we see the Day approaching! I can say to you my dear friends with confidence that because my parents professed their faith, and lived it out unswervingly, and never did forsake the meeting together with believers whether in church or Bible study groups even when I fought against them and that even at home where nobody else could see they held to their faith that today I too know Jesus. Without their diligence I may never have been saved! I didn’t make it easy for them either! Because they did the hard thing I came back to church and am teaching my own kids that same faith in Christ although not as good as they did but still doing it. This young generation today that are leaving the church by the droves are the future teachers of the next generation! We need to get back to making it a priority to not forsake meeting together!! It’s right there in the Bible. Meeting together is vital not only in our own lives but also for the eternal future of our children and their children!! I don’t know about you but I want to see my kids in heaven!! Dear Lord help us not to have a lackadaisically approach to meeting with other believers to study and pray together. Help us to make it as big a priority as is our next meal!!