I haven't got time for that.

Have you ever found yourself saying "I haven't got time for that"?  Sure, we all have.  Have you ever said that about church?  It has been my observation that a lot of churches are not having Sunday evening services anymore for whatever reason.  This got me thinking about how we as Christians should view church.  When we look at Scripture, The Bible says little about going to church and even less about when to go.  Yet the pictures and examples show that Christians seemed to always be in Church.  (Acts 2:41-47)  Notice the words in the passage I noted.  Verse 42 "and they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine, fellowship, and in breaking bread, and in prayers." and again in verse 46 "And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house..."  The church was continuing daily WITH one another in fellowship and in the apostles DOCTRINE. In other words they were at church everyday.  Now obviously the people worked in various vocations so how can this be?  Here it is.  They WERE the church. They WERE Christians.  Church wasn't something that they did a few times a week, it was who they were.  I think we have a tendency to look at things a little backward.  We GET saved, we DO Christian things, we GO to church.  The Bible says "if any man be in Christ he IS a new creature."  We BECOME saved, we ARE Christians, we ARE the church.  The Christian life isn't something we choose to live, it is something that we are when God saves us.  Church isn't something you do it is who you are.

Think of it this way.  How much of your 24 hours a day is actually yours?  Right, None of it.  God has allowed us time.  He is not bound by it but has given it to us in order to use it as stewards, and faithful ones at that.  We are to do all His glory and that includes how we use the time He has entrusted us with.  Its kinda like going to work and doing your job.  You punch in and go about your day doing what your business requires you to do.  If you did your own thing, for your own pleasure, then anyone with a conscience would say that you were stealing from your employer.  In like manner, if you decided that one day Church, or really anything that God expects of you, just wouldn't fit into your schedule, or "I haven't got time for that." Then what are you doing?

"Not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together..."  Maybe we should just leave it there and give you time to think about it.  Whose time is it anyway?

Truly, if we Christians would realize the wonderful gift that God has given us in one another we too, could "continue daily" and we too, could see the LORD add to His church daily such as should be saved.