Scripture ReadingActs 20:7; 1 Cor. 14:12, 15-17, 26, 31

WHY DO WE ASSEMBLE?

“And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.”

Matthew 16:18

“Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread”

Acts20:7

1 Corinthians11, 14

“…praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved” (NASU)

Acts2:47

“Every day, you should seek out the faces of the saints”

Epistle of Barnabas, 70-130 AD

“Every day, seek out the faces of the saints so that you may be refreshed by their words”

Didache, 80-140 AD

“For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed”“Let your assembling together be of frequent occurrence”

Ignatius, 105 AD

“After baptism we continually remind one another of these things. Those who have provide for all those in need. We are always together with one another.”

Justin Martyr, 160 AD

“We all make our assembly in common on Sunday, since it is the first day on which God changed the darkness and matter and made the world, and Jesus Christ our Savior arose from the dead on the same day.”

Justin Martyr, 160 AD

WHY DO WE ASSEMBLE?

I. TO JOIN THE ASSEMBLY

“Greet one another”Rom. 15:7; Rom. 16:16

Engage!

WHY DO WE ASSEMBLE?

II. TO WORSHIP GOD TOGETHER

BODY AWARENESS

WHY DO WE ASSEMBLE?

III. TO BUILD EACH OTHER UP

WHY DO WE ASSEMBLE?

WHY DO WE ASSEMBLE?

I. TO JOIN THE ASSEMBLYII. TO WORSHIP GOD TOGETHER

III. TO BUILD EACH OTHER UP

Application:DON’T SKIP THE

ASSEMBLY!