Is Church Attendance Essential?

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What’s Your Question? For July 14, 2010

It is not uncommon to hear some who have been baptized say, “I can be just as good a Christian at home as I can at church.” The implication is that they feel as good, or better than, those who regularly worship God. The Bible teaches that those baptized “continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching, and fellowship, in the breaking of bread (Lord’s supper, Acts 20:7) and in prayers” (Acts 2:38-42). When Paul and Barnabas returned on their first missionary journey, they appointed elders in every church (Acts 14:23). Elders are to oversee the flock among them (1 Pet. 5:4). What would happen to the Lord’s arrangement if everyone decided they could stay home and please God? Forsaking assembling is a sin (Heb. 10:24-26), so one cannot be “just as good a Christian” while forsaking doing what God teaches.