Objectives:
- To challenge God's people to really understand what God is saying about the church and why we should seek to be a part of it.
- To enlighten each believer concerning the meaning, mandate, mindset, and ministry of the Church as a spiritual family.
- To promote participation in the life of the church as part of the family.
Today, it is not unusual to meet Christians who no longer believe in the importance of joining a church. Many have formulated excuses as to why they have difficulty joining. The most common excuses you would hear are:
- Services are too long and boring
- Sermons are irrelevant to their lives
- Christians are judgemental and hypocritical
- Churches ask for money all the time
- churches have to many conflicts within
- Bad experiences in the past
Just one of these excuses is enough to keep someone from church. Besides these excuses, there are also those who do not join the church because of personal inconvenience such as Sunday being the only day they have off and they need to do other things. Others have to work all the time. With all the excuses that people are coming up with, I feel that we as God's people should be able to really understand what God is saying about the church and why we should seek to be part of it. I hope all of you will be convinced to know that for us, church is not optional. Instead, God has built it so it can help us develop into the kind of people we should be before God.