you are called to belong not just believe

We ware created for community, fashined for fellowship and formed for a family none of us can fulfull God's purpose by yourselves.

The Bible knows nothing of solitary saints or spiritual hemits Isolated from other believers and deprived of fellowship

While your relationship with God is to be private in Gods, God never intended it to be private...

following Christ including belongs not to just believeing - we are members of his body

for the organs of how body to fulfill their purpose they must be connected to your body the same is true for you as a part of Christ body

a organ is a part from the body can not survive - Just like our body in Christ can not survive without fellowship

****Local Fellowship

Local Visible congregation -

Christian with out a church home is like an organ without a body

a sheep with out a flock

a child withou a family

*** why you need a church family

a church family idetifies you as a genuine believer

a church family moves you out of self centerd isolation

(teaches you to belong to the family of God )

a church Family helps you develope spiritual muscle

the body of Christ needs you ...

***You will share in Christ mission in the World

***A church family will help keep you from backsliding (none of us are immune from temptation)

***It's all in the church

God's purpose for His church are identical for you . worship help you focus on god's fellowship helps you face lifes probme

deciples help fortify your faith ministry helps your taletns evangelism helps fulfill your mission, there is nothing else on earth like the church

*** your choice

the differecne between church

attenders and a church member is commitment attenders are spectators from the sidelines members get involved in the ministries

attenders are consumers members are contribiters...

attenders want the benifits of a church without the sharing the repsonsibility

why is it important to join church family

proves commitment

day 17

thinking my purpse

The Bible says we are put together, joined together, built together, members together, heirs together, fitted together, and held together and will be caught up together. You are not on your own anymore. While your relationship to Christ is personal, God never intends it to be private. In God's family you are connected to every other believer, and we will belong to each other for eternity.

The Bible says, In Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. It also says a Christian without a church home is like an organ without a body, a sheep without a flock, or a child without a family. It is an unnatural state.

The Christian life is more than just commitment to Christ; it includes a commitment to other Christians. The Christians in Macedonia understood this. Paul said, First they gave themselves to the Lord; and then, by God's will, they gave themselves to us as well. Joining the membership of a local church is the natural next step once you've become a child of God. You become a Christian by committing yourself to Christ, but you become a church member by committing yourself to a specific group of believers. The first decision brings salvation; the second brings fellowship.