SEPTEMBER 2008 * Volume 1 Issue 8 Why Bother with Church? “Weare servants of the wise and UNWISE indebted to worship, educate, proclaim we and minister this fellowship of Christian faith until it covers the earth.” Inside this issue | It has been said that some related to the church rather like a flying buttress (an external support that reinforces the walls of old cathedrals). They supported it from the outside. This strategy was and continues to be tried by some for a while, until they become to believe Christian doctrine sincerely and committing oneself to God. | Fewer people attend church on Sunday than claim to follow Christ. Some feel burned. by a former experience. Others simply “get nothing out of church.” Why bother? o Today, some people could hardly imagine hfe without church, It is because church has filleda need for them that can’t be met in any other way. An early church leader wrote, “the virtuous soul that is alone... is like ae | burning coal that is alone. It will erow colder rather than hotter.” Church contains something we all desperately need. Whenever we¢ abandon church for a time, we are the one who suffers. Your faith starts to fade and lovelessness grows over you again. We become colder rather than hotter, Although we may journey away from church, we have always circled back to the church. We join our arts and hands thoathdn faithful to the Lord’s command; We hold each other to God’s standards — all that truth and love demands. The church is not a select circle for a few, but a spiritual center open to all! “For where two or three are gathered in My name, I am there among them.’ Matthew 18:20