Memory Verse Day 27: So why do we meet together?

This is the next part of verse #26.  I was a day late posting a verse, so I’m catching up today.

Hebrews actually has some pretty important instructions for the church.  For example, we should meet together, as we see here.  Later in the book, the author tells us to obey our leaders because they keep watch over our souls (Hebrews 13:17).

Sometimes people email me and tell me they want to become missionaries.  One of the first things I suggest is that they talk to the leadership of their church.

More than once it has turned out that this is a problem.  It could be that this person has no relationship with any leader (which could make it difficult to obey Hebrews 13:17).  But it also could be that this person has the habit of not meeting together with other believers at all.

In those two verses – and excuse me for joining them together like this, but – in those two verses there really is a lot to learn about the assembly – the local church.

How many people really have any opportunity to obey a leader?  How many leaders are truly keeping watch over souls?  How many people really feel the urgency to meet together ("all the more as you see the Day drawing near")?

And perhaps sadest of all, how many "go to church" all their lives, and hardly ever encourage – or receive encouragement?

How many are never thinking about how to help their fellow believers to love more?  To do more good works?

These aren’t verses long in instructions and programs and procedures and regulations – and yet how many of us are missing out on the wonderful basics of the family of God?

So let’s not get in the habit of avoiding fellow believers.  Or the habit of just … doing other things.

Instead, let’s get together and spur each other on to great things.  Time is short.