"I am a Christian, but I don't go to church. I don't need church."

-Walker of a very narrow path deceiving himself...

There are many people who have the wrong idea of what it means to be a Christian. It isn't a once a week commitment to be at church or a code of ethics to live by. It is a committed relationship with Almighty God, Creator of the heavens and the earth.

Most people treat church like a whore house. They go to church however often they feel the need in payment for a good feeling and a sense of relief. They treat it like a quid-pro-quo, this for that, payment for services rendered.

Brothers and sisters this is not how it should be. We don't leave our Christianity at the doors of the church. Wherever we go, God goes with us. Whatever we do God is there with us. It is more like a marriage. We spend every day with our spouse but on some days we do something special just to spend time focused on each other. It is like going out on a date with your spouse to reaffirm your commitment to each other.

We don't do good works, or go to church, or evangelize to earn our way into heaven. We do these things because we are excited about what we have been given and who we are in a relationship with. Everything we do should focus on presenting ourselves radiant and blameless to the only One who is worthy of our praise, the One who has forgiven us, the One who has called us his own.

Going to church is not a chore, it's a privilege

and it should be treated as such.

" for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God"

Romans 3:23

"as it is written,

“There is none righteous, not even one;

there is none who understands,

There is none who seeks for God;

All have turned aside, together they have become useless;

There is none who does good,

There is not even one.”

“Their throat is an open grave,

With their tongues they keep deceiving,”

“The poison of asps is under their lips”;

“Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness”;

“Their feet are swift to shed blood,

Destruction and misery are in their paths,

And the path of peace they have not known.”

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.” "

Romans 3-10-18

"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Romans 6:23

"*...if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved"

Romans 10:9

"Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ"

Romans 5:1

"Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus."

Romans 8:1

"For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Romans 8:38-39

Maranatha!

Come Lord Jesus!

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