Sunday. Sabbath. Lord’s day. Day of rest.
Many words to indicate the traditional day of going to church, for the Christ-follower (of course not all participate in corporate worship on Sunday).
Each week the calendar rolls around to this day, this time to gather with others to pray, sing, share, give and receive the message that will encourage, challenge us, gird our loins, as it were, for the week to come. It is opportunity, freedom that is not available to all in our world. We are blessed to gather together to worship our Savior, our Redeemer.
“Do you feel like going to church tomorrow? today?”
We ask this of each other, of our loved ones and friends, of ourselves as we lay our heads down to sleep the eve of the Sabbath. The question can roll off our tongues like oil, not pausing in our cranial space for consideration, before shrugging and deciding, no, not this week … I’m too … tired, busy … peopled-out.
“Do you feel like going to church tomorrow? Peterson suggests that is the wrong question. “If Christians worshipped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship … Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.” Eugene Peterson
Yes … yes I am going to church today … I am working on my side of my relationship with God … that is what I have control of today.
The Lord be with you …
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