What are you doing Sunday morning? Yes, I know you will probably be attending a worship service. But what will you be doing in the assembly of saints and sinners? Will you just sit there self-absorbed? Or will you joke and laugh with others at superficially insignificant dribble while ignoring Christ and the true needs of human hearts? Or what about taking a minute or two to administer some grace to a brother or sister in Christ? Simon Kistenmaker writes:
“Believers have a corporate and an individual responsibility to care for the spiritual well-being of their fellow men. They must consider this responsibility a holy obligation and exhibit utter faithfulness.”
This is to be the norm especially as we meet together. Too much is at stake and our hearts are much too frail and deceitful to be a careless or carefree member of the body of Christ. Please meditate on what the writer of Hebrews has to say on the matter and then be prepared to go and do likewise:
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. (Hebrews 3:12-13 ESV)
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. (Hebrews 10:23-25 ESV)
“Believers have a corporate and an individual responsibility to care for the spiritual well-being of their fellow men. They must consider this responsibility a holy obligation and exhibit utter faithfulness.”
This is to be the norm especially as we meet together. Too much is at stake and our hearts are much too frail and deceitful to be a careless or carefree member of the body of Christ. Please meditate on what the writer of Hebrews has to say on the matter and then be prepared to go and do likewise:
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. (Hebrews 3:12-13 ESV)
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. (Hebrews 10:23-25 ESV)
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