Will you gather with the Church this Sunday?

I know, I know: I’m a pastor and have an obvious bias for asking that question and telling people why it’s important to gather on Sunday mornings. I’m also not going to be the most articulate or convincing voice out there arguing for the importance of corporate worship.

But I have a fire inside of me for this issue that doesn’t seem to be going away and one of the things I love to do most is write. So, whether or not anyone reads this or is convinced by it, I’m going to be writing a series of blog posts on the important of gathering on Sundays at your local church to worship with God’s people.

If nothing else, this series of blogs is going to help me as I am currently working on making Sunday morning worship services at MissionWay more biblical, intentional, and glorifying to the Lord. If you’re a member of MissionWay, and you’re reading this, consider this series a way for you to look behind the curtain on why we do what we do on Sunday mornings and what the biblical principles are behind some of the small changes you may be seeing over the coming months.

Don’t panic, nothing major will be changing, but I have been personally convicted to be more intentional with service planning each week because I believe the Lord is worthy of more than simply scheduling four songs and a sermon each week. I believe He is deserving of us choosing songs beyond just simply making sure they are biblically correct and we haven’t sung them too many weeks in a row. I know He is far too glorious for us to go through the motions in planning and participating in these services.

So it’s time for us to examine what corporate worship is, why we do it, how we should prepare for it (whether we’re on the platform or not), and what the biblical elements of it are. Those are the kinds of questions I’ll be exploring in a series of blog posts over the next few weeks, and even months.

Here’s an important question you may be asking: Why should you spend your time reading these posts? Why should this conversation matter to you?

Because Sunday mornings are not actually about you at all. They are about the Lord and His people gathering to worship Him. It is The Lord’s Day, after all.

If you’re wondering why Sunday mornings should matter to you, you’re asking the wrong question. the proper question is: “Do they matter to God?” That will be the first question I explore in the next blog post. Because if they matter to God, what other reason could we possibly need to prioritize them?! I hope you’ll join me on this journey. More than that, I pray these posts would reignite in all of us a passion to gather with God’s people week in and week out to glorify His Name and then be sent out on mission to make disciples until the next time we gather.