We’re Better Together

            It seemed like it took forever to work out this morning.  I realized it was because my exercise buddies weren’t there when I ended up at the neighborhood work out facility later than usual. The torturous task of staying in shape always goes faster when I have someone to talk to!  I’m better when I’m together with others who have made the same commitment to the gym.

            In a similar way, we are better when we do Christianity together.  I have talked to many people who say they are Christians but they don’t attend church.  Many believe church is a place to be entertained and when the sermon or the music doesn’t speak to them, they stop attending. Here’s a flash bulletin:  CHURCH IS NOT ABOUT US.  It’s about gathering with other believers to pay respect to and worship our creator. It may also be about someone else. 

            Hebrews 10:24-25 says, And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

            I remember when a friend understood this concept about encouraging someone else.  After her friend lost her husband to a premature death, she sat by her at church and held her hand throughout the entire service.  She realized she was there to show Christ’s love to her friend that day and was not there for herself.

We receive a fuller perspective of Scripture when we do Christianity together. I love my Sunday school class because I always learn something about God’s word that I had never known before and I have been a student of the Bible for twenty years.  It is good and healthy to study the Bible with other people because God will speak to you concerning his Word through other believers.  When he does speak, you know it.

Jesus was a group person.  He traveled with twelve disciples most everywhere he went.  The Lord knows I am a group person and I cannot take my faith walk alone.  That’s why he gave me a wonderful team of women to do the Pearls of Promise ministry with.  The Pearl girls pray together, encourage each other and bounce ideas off each other.  In my mind, there’s no other way to do ministry.  I founded Pearls of Promise in 2009 but it wasn’t until God built the team in 2012 that the ministry started to take off.  That tells me something.  I am better together with other Christian women in ministry.

Have you isolated yourself from other people in your faith journey?  Will you consider taking a brave step out by joining a church or a Bible study?  God did not design us to be alone in our Christian walk.  We are better together.