Title
Once a Week Is Not Enough
Scripture
And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.
(Acts 5:42)
Devotional
Once a week is not enough. A one-hour worship service is not a good balance between the onslaught of the world and the teaching and preaching of the gospel. Compare the number of hours spent watching television with a combined time spent in fellowship, worship, praying, Bible-study and service. Unfortunately, statistics say that TV wins. I am not advocating a boycott of television; I am however advocating a greater amount of time be given to that which brings eternal dividends.
May I encourage you to not only attend a weekly worship service, but also a Sunday school class, a mid-week prayer service and a small group fellowship. These combined equate to no more than the amount of television many folks watch in one day. I can promise that your life will be richer for it. Will it be easy? No, it will at first take a fair amount of discipline. There will have to be some priority changes. It will require some sacrifice. However, the fruit that will be produced will be more than worthwhile.
Thought For The Night
“Let [the person] who cannot be alone beware of community. Let [the person] who is not in community beware of being alone.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer, (1906-1945), theologian, spiritual writer, author of fiction and poetry, central figure in the Protestant church struggle against Nazism
Evening Text
Acts 5:42: And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.
Looking for Answers
· Can we meet with God without meeting with one another?
· Is not the Church the Body of Christ?
· What keeps you from the fellowship of the believers?
Evening Study Guide
Defining: Fellowship: “With God, consisting in the knowledge of his will; agreement with his designs; mutual affection; enjoyment of his presence; conformity to his image; and participation of his felicity. Of saints with one another, in duties; in ordinances; in grace, love, joy, etc; mutual interest, spiritual and temporal; in sufferings; and in glory,” Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Referencing: “So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved,” Acts 2:46-47.
Applying: You know the command, “Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching,” Hebrews 10:24-25.