Today, we have so many Christians who do not go to church for one reason or the other. Some see it as just a normal or religious gathering of people called Christians while some come up with excuse like “I forgot to get my clothes ready”, “I want to wash my clothes” “I don’t feel like going” blah blah blah!! If we really know the reason(s) why we should be in church always, we will not come up with these flimsy excuses. Majority of Christians today have a superficial understanding of this subject. That is why you will ask a Christian why do you go to church and all he can say is to worship. What do you mean by worship? If that is all you went to church to do, then that is not good enough. I pray God opens our understanding as we read through this post.
Here are some reasons why we go to church

Fellowship
Cooperate fellowship with the brethren and with the Holy Spirit (1Cor 1:9, 1John 1:3-7). Fellowship with the brethren is so important. It has its own way of keeping us in track. I remember discussing this subject with a friend and she told me a story how that she was a leader in her school fellowship and travelled to spend a particular holiday with her aunt. For some reasons, she did not follow her aunt to church all through her stay though she carves out time to study, pray and worship the Lord on her own every Sunday. When she got back to school, she said she noticed she could not join in the flow of the spirit easily like she used to. There was this difficulty in connecting. Well, thank God she did not remain in that state. The bible says iron sharpeneth iron (Prov 27:17)

To receive instruction
Instruction here is not the thou shall and thou shall not but instruction in righteousness. Instructions on how to live the life we now have as new creations in Christ Jesus. 2Tim 3:16

To receive information---information in the kingdom
Oftentimes we are somewhat confused on how to walk in the light of God’s word and end up sometimes believing God does not love me that much or I am not qualified for this blessing. If we go to church regularly and receive God’s word, we can nudge out of this idea. Jer 3:15 says; “And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.” Look at the preceding verse Jer 3:16a “And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land,…”. You see, our increase comes by yielding ourselves to the ministry of our pastors. I understand there are churches where they do not teach the word of God in depth. They do not hold in high priority, accurate teaching of God’s word. If you attend that kind of church and you are waiting for Jesus to come down from heaven to tell you to leave that church and join one where God’s word is taught, then you need not wonder why the stagnation in your spiritual life.

To be strengthened
Strengthened through the first three. Ps 84:7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God
Ps 133:3b “…for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.”

To worship
Through the prayer of adoration, songs of worship and praise that exalts God, offerings of worship and thanksgiving in demonstration of our commitment. Some may be surprised I listed offerings as a form of worship. Paying our offerings is one significant way of worshiping the Lord. We recognize Him as Lord over our lives and so we pay our offerings in honour, thanks and submission to Him.

To receive cleansing
We live in a world that is unclean and dirty. Gal 1:4 calls it “…this present evil world…” and we can be stained by so many different things. We can be stained in our minds, we can pick up negative thoughts and ideas. We therefore need to be cleansed through the word of God on a daily basis. John 15:3, Eph 5:26

To minister and to receive ministry.
This is where the gifts of the holy spirit comes in. if we stay at home, we may never receive this ministry. We may never experience the gifts and ministry of the Holy Spirit. Even the ministry of the Holy Spirit in our lives will be limited. Brethren, it is paramount for us to be in church all the time.

Notice all of them have something supernatural in them. Why? Because Christianity is about living a supernatural life. Going to church has a rippling effect in our lives. No matter how subliminal it appears


Excerpts from a message titled Christ in you part 2 by Pastor Chris Oyakhilime

Source: http://www.rhemadiet..com

ride on pastor charis!

Lovely post! We should never forsake the gathering of the brethren.

gracile:
ride on pastor charis!

Sit back and learn daughter!

kay1one2:
Lovely post! We should never forsake the gathering of the brethren.

True that. We should never forsake the gathering of the Brethren.


Including sisthren.

REASONS WHY I GO TO CHURCH

BECAUSE I WANT TO

BECAUSE MY GIRLFRIEND THREATENS TO DENY ME SEX IF I DON'T

BECAUSE TODAY IS THANKS-GIVING SUNDAY, AND I EXPECT TO GET SOME FREE JOLOF RICE

BECAUSE I WANT TO LEARN AND PRACTICE NEW DANCE-STEPS WHICH I COULDN'T LEARN IN THE CLUB OR FROM BEYONCE'S MUSIC VIDEO

BECAUSE OF ONE PARTICULARLY CUTE FEMALE USHER WHOSE SMILE ALMOST ALWAYS MAKES ME CUM IN MY PANTS.... AND THE 'HOLY HUG' SHE ALWAYS GIVES ME AFTER CHURCH SERVICE

BECAUSE MY MUM THINKS I HAVE JOINED GURU MAHARAJI, OGBONI, OR SOME OTHER DEVILISH CULT.. SO I HAVE TO PROVE TO HER THAT THE 'BLOOD OF JESUS' WHICH IS SCREAMED ON PER-SECOND-BILLING IN CHURCH WONT MAKE ME TURN INTO A 9-HEADED SNAKE

Op these days some people go to church to showcase their fashion prowess.

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To display our gadget, n to woo ladies

Op you forgot for 'Runs'

To dance holy shoki

Most people go to church cuz they see others going. They think going to church is how to be a Christian
They think the only way to be a Christian is going to church. No such as a 'none church going' Christian
Hypocrites

kay1one2:
Lovely post! We should never forsake the gathering of the brethren.

fake Christian

kay1one2:
Your mother first! Dumb low life!

To meet ones future partner

Hmmm #rhema...learning

charis where were you last night























don't play with d holy spirit

Interesting...
Now this are the major reasons people go to church today (opinion)
1. Connections : lots of Nigerians go to church to get that connection from that MD or CEO that attends their church either for a job or contract or even appointments in government parastatals.The recent case of people submitting CV's to pastor Tunde bakare comes to mind.

2. In search of husband ( for the ladies) : Alot of Nigerian single ladies fall into this category especially when age is no longer on ther side.They go to church hoping that that brother will finally make that move,some also go for prayers hoping to break every 'spiritual' force keeping them from locating thier spouses.

3. In search of the next lay ( young men ) : A friend once told me " guy come make we go this church,i hear fine babes plenty there ".many young men go to church just to look for a girl they can hook up with just for the sex and nothing more and its getting more common this days.

4. To show off their newly bought or sewn cloths : We all must have noticed how when people buy a new cloth they just cant wait to get to church to show it off,this ones would have probably ironed and gotten the cloth ready since the wednesday before sunday.

5 . To get prayers to make their business prosper : Many of our business men fall in this category.Once they notice a decline in profit they run to church praying ,fasting and giving tithes just for their futunes to change but refuse to change their wayward life style.

6. To get votes : well this one needs no introduction as we are all aware of how the last election got politicians jumping from one church to the other so the members of the church will vote them in and while visiting this churches they never forget to give some hefty offering or thanksgiving to get on the good books of the members.

This is just a few i can mention for now,you are free to add yours and while at it remember that SAVING OF OUR SOUL should be the paramount reason for our going to church.

God/satan does not exist...

People go to religious places to socialise and to show off ...

not to praise/worship an imaginary thing.

Just go so dat ur holy roomate wil stop pestering u

NIGERIANS do go to church just to charge their [size=50pt]PHONES[/size]

Wait

MissAdeife:
To meet ones future partner

buzquet:
To display our gadget, n to woo ladies

chinnelle:
To dance holy shoki

See them
I'm not impressed

Uhmm Future Pastor.

jacksparrow1207:
Most people go to church cuz the see others going. They think going to church is how to be a Christian

Such persons obviously go for the wrong reason and hence, it leaves them(their life and persona) the way they are.

we go to church to shout, sing, clap, dance, give 10% of our salary to pastor & his wife, then go home and continue our corruption.

also during election politicians go to seek for votes

To flaunt dresses! Esp ladies.

GodMode:
God/satan does not exist...

People go to religious places to socialise not to praise/worship an imaginary thing.

I 100% agree with the embolden

ok na