So, what’s the big deal about
church anyway? Really now, haven’t you wondered at times if the church is that
significant in a day of high-level technology and powerful international
issues? How could a congregation of folks carry much clout in our modern era of
transcontinental missiles, mind boggling scientific discoveries, space
exploration, and impressive educational advancements? It’s easy to be a little
cynical when you compare the importance of a brilliant body of sharp minds
wrestling over decisions that could impact a contingent of people, with a few
dozen people in some white clapboard building singing “In the sweet by and by.”
Yet, unless you’ve recently cut Matthew 16:18 out of your Bible, it still says the same thing Jesus said: Matthew 16:18b, “…I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Now chew on that for a second, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Let me give you five reasons the church is of supreme importance.
1.
The church is the only institution dealing with “ultimate” issues:
death, purpose, heaven, hell, lasting priorities, wholeness of body and spirit.
2.
The church provides perspective that gives dignity to mankind. We live
in a day in which man is being used to further some else’s goals (by
cooperation, etc.). To the church man is not a means to an end but the purpose
of our goal.
3.
The church provides moral and ethical direction. Our society has
rejected absolutes which produces confusion. Not the church, we absolutely
believe that Jesus is life and the reason for life.
4.
The church is the only place to find healing, compassion and love. In
the church (at least at
5.
The church (like no other
institution) has provided motivation for the most lasting, unselfish,
essential, courageous ministries on earth: schools, hospitals, missions, etc.
✞ Be in church. It is a big deal.
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