Congregants congregate or Congregations die.
This simple principle is well known since the earliest days of the Church itself. Sometime prior to the year 70 the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews remarks, in the 'exhortation' portion of the work, to those wavering in faith
Let's hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, because the one who made the promises is reliable. And let us consider each other carefully for the purpose of sparking love and good deeds. Don't stop meeting together with other believers, which some people have gotten into the habit of doing. Instead, encourage each other, especially as you see the day drawing near.
If we make the decision to sin after we receive the knowledge of the truth, there isn't a sacrifice for sins left any longer. There's only a scary expectation of judgment and of a burning fire that's going to devour God's opponents. When someone rejected the Law from Moses, they were put to death without mercy on the basis of the testimony of two or three witnesses.
How much worse punishment do you think is deserved by the person who walks all over God's Son, who acts as if the blood of the covenant that made us holy is just ordinary blood, and who insults the Spirit of grace? We know the one who said, Judgment is mine; I will pay people back. And he also said, The Lord will judge his people. It's scary to fall into the hands of the living God! (Heb. 10:23-31)
Congregants congregate not merely for the sake of congregating, but for the sake of their own spiritual growth and for the growth of the other members of the Congregation.
Congregating is the act of the Community and communities commune. Or to say it again, congregants congregate, or congregations die.
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