Have we every thought about what would happen if the preacher stayed home from the assembly of the saints?<\/p>\n
The story is told of a pioneer preacher who was once conducting a Gospel Meeting at a certain congregation. Because he knew the membership, and seeing the very poor attendance on the first night of the meeting, he stayed home the second night.<\/p>\n
The next day, when the brethren asked him where he was, he replied, “Well, if some of the members can stay home, so can I.”<\/p>\n
After this news was circulated in the community, the attendance was very good for the rest of the Gospel Meeting.<\/p>\n
Brethren, we are all members of the spiritual body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:27; cf. Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 10:17; 1 Corinthians 12:12; Ephesians 1:22-23). Each one of us is needed<\/strong> to promote the proper growth and development of that spiritual body (Ephesians 4:16).<\/p>\n Like our physical body, if the spiritual body of Christ is to function properly, all members have to do their part<\/strong> in order to maintain the body’s spiritual health. Even the most seemingly insignificant member, is still very important<\/strong> to the proper function of the whole body (1 Corinthians 12:22).<\/p>\n Brethren, do we truly care for the souls of fellow members in the spiritual body of Christ, the church? (1 Corinthians 12:26-27). Do we truly “care” for the spiritual growth and development of the body of Christ?<\/p>\n If we do, we will encourage every member<\/strong> in the spiritual body of Christ, to be present at every assembly possible<\/strong> (Acts 11:22-26), for we do not want to incur Gods judgment upon us (Hebrews 10:23-27).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have we every thought about what would happen if the preacher stayed home from the assembly of the saints? The story is told of a pioneer preacher who was once conducting a Gospel Meeting at a certain congregation. Because he knew the membership, and seeing the very poor attendance on the first night of the … Continue reading “What If The Preacher Stayed Home? – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}