Present, Accounted For

If the question is, “Can a Christian miss church without missing Heaven?” the answer is absolutely yes. But this answer is deceiving because other questions need to be asked.

I would be the first in line to say you don’t have to go to church to be saved. I would also be the first in line to say these things as well. A Christian…

• – Cannot be effective without being connected and submitted to other believers. 

• – Cannot be successful long-term without being connected and submitted to other believers. 

• – Will not grow the way he is meant to grow without being connected, committed, and submitted to the church. 

• – Will miss out on a lot of what God is speaking to him if he is not under the teaching of a Spirit-led pastor. 

• – Will not be able to use his God-given gifts without being a part of a fellowship of believers. 

• – Will miss out on great life-changing moves of God because he won’t be present. 

• – Will miss out on blessings because he is not connected or serving. 

Do you have to attend church to make it into Heaven? No. But it’s like showing up to a party where you don’t know anyone and you forgot to bring a gift.  That’s not you!

“. . . not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.