The Importance of Church Attendants

 

      Today I wanted to talk about why it is important to go to church and how we benefit from going. First off why do we need to go to church? The first reason is because it a commandment. Exodus 20:8-11 says 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Heavenly father wants us to rest and think on how we can spiritually work and improve ourselves to continue to follow him. Another reason and one of the most important reasons of why I go to church is to remember my savior and what he did for me and to renew those promises that I have made . Our behavior shows our commitment to honor and worship God and keeping it Holy shows our willingness to keep our covenants. Moroni 6: 4-6 teaches us that it is important to go to church for this reason to partake of the Sacrament and that we need to go to renew or covenants . 4 And after they had been received unto baptism, and were wrought upon and cleansed by the power of the Holy Ghost, they were numbered among the people of the church of Christ; and their names were taken, that they might be remembered and nourished by the good word of God, to keep them in the right way, to keep them continually watchful unto prayer, relying alone upon the merits of Christ, who was the author and the finisher of their faith.

5 And the church did meet together oft, to fast and to pray, and to speak one with another concerning the welfare of their souls.
6 And they did meet together oft to partake of bread and wine, in remembrance of the Lord Jesus.

      Sunday is one of my favorite days  because after church I don't really have to worry about worldly things. Because we are to keep that spirit of worship with us all day and do those kind of activities that will invite it to stay with us. In Isaiah 58 the lord teaches us that if we keep this day holy and do as he ask he will bless us on high and our delight will be upon the lord. Isaiah 58:13-14. 13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
In preach my gospel it tells us what can and will happen if we neglect going to church or just ignore going. 
  When a community or nation grows careless in its Sabbath activities, its religious life decays and all aspects of life are negatively affected. The blessings associated with keeping the Sabbath day holy are lost. We should refrain from shopping on the Sabbath and participating in other commercial and sporting activities that now commonly desecrate the Sabbath.
 

      What are some of the blessing that we receive when we keep the sabbath day holy? So as I said earlier going to church is a commandment and the Lord has always blessed us if we keep his commandments, and there are many things that the Lord will bless us with and we can go on how he has blessed us from going to church every week. But to name some of them that we do know from the scriptures are one I mentioned earlier was from Isaiah and there are two more that I would like to share. The first one is found in Doctrine and Covenants 59:16 Verily I say, that inasmuch as ye do this, the fulness of the earth is yours, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and that which climbeth upon the trees and walketh upon the earth;

the reason I like this blessing is because as we keep the Lords Holy day we are promised that the fulness of the earth is yours meaning that the lord will provide for us and make sure that our temporal well being will be taken care of. The other Blessing is my favorite one of them all and its found in the same section and its verse 23 and it says. But learn that he who doeth the works of righteousness shall receive his reward, even peace in this world, and eternal life in the world to come.

The reason why this is my favorite blessing is because it promises us peace in this life and I think that's what all of us are seeking for, but most importantly that we can have eternal life to come. And how do we receive all these blessings?... BY COMING TO CHURCH!!!! its that easy church may seem long and boring at sometime but its not when we have our priories straight.

      I know that these things are true church use to be boring to me when I was in my teens but when I realized that its not just a 3 hour of scripture reading it about learning what the savior needs us to do and learn so that we can have this gift of eternal life. I go to church to receive the personal revelation that I need that is why I go. What a good place to go to receive an answer to an issue or concern that we may have. Please come and join us where ever you may be there will be a place of worship and all are welcome to join us.