Ten Reasons Why We Should Love The Church - #5

Sunday morning - and as I have been posting all week about why we should love the church, this is one of the best days to do so. 

It was suggested to me that as I progress along, that I also post the previous days' reasons for your remembrance; so here goes.  Thus far, the reasons why we should love the church are...

1.  Loving the church brings glory to God

2.  Loving the church demonstrates faithfulness to the Word of God

3.  Loving the church is one of our greatest witnesses to the world

4.  Loving the church creates UNITY in the body of Christ

And now (drum roll please), here is reason number five as to why we should love the church:

5.  Loving the church stimulates meaningful and vibrant corporate worship of God.

When love and unity are present in the Body of Christ, it allows our corporate worship environment more powerful and substantial.  It creates a fervency in our worship.  In the following four verses from Psalm 95, notice the repeated use of the word us! I have underlined them for you:

¹ O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord,

Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.

² Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving,

Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.

⁶ Come, let us worship and bow down,

Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.

⁷ For He is our God,

And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand...

The “us” in these verses are the people of God coming together to truly praise and worship the Lord.  Oh, may our worship of our Lord Jesus Christ not be about "us" - but may it be through "us"!