I gave four reasons why we need the church from a booklet titled Why Be A Christian, Why The Church, by Walter Woodbury. Here are the final four...
5. By staying outside the church, I am throwing
my influence against Christ and His Church.
6. If all people refused to unite with the
church and support its ministries, there would be no church.
7. The church offers the opportunity to invest
in a great and worthy cause, namely, the extension of God’s Kingdom in the
world.
8. If I do not stand up for Christ and His
church here, how can I expect Him to claim me among His own when He comes in
triumph? (If anyone is ashamed of me and
my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be
ashamed of him when he comes in his Father. - Matthew 10:33, Mark 8:38, Luke 9:26 with only minor variations)
I don't know that any of these by themselves are conclusive, except perhaps the last one, but together they make a convincing argument that perhaps we do need the church.
Tomorrow, I share some reasons Rick Warren gives for being a part of a local church...
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