Come ye thankful people come.
For centuries the bell in the steeple has been a call to worship. It has also been used as a warning, and celebration. But the theme has always been one to unite the people. The assembling of people united for one cause, the betterment of all. Do you have a church bell in your community? Does it ring on Sunday morning? Does the sound draw you or annoy you? I know with modern technology we hardly need a church bell anymore, but what it stood for, we need now more than ever. The assembling of like minded people who want what is best for their community and their country.
Maybe this Sunday, instead of the call of the NFL, (who have shown their lack of respect for our flag, our country and the people who buy the tickets, and the paraphernalia,) and answer the call of the bell in the church steeple. Unlike the game on TV, you will leave the doors of the church with greater knowledge, purpose and you may even like yourself a little more for going. Not all of us are NFL fans, but we may love laying in bed for that much needed sleep on Sunday morning, that is not afforded you on any other day. But maybe an afternoon nap would suffice. Get the family up, dressed, and go as your own assembly to improve your family, by doing something together. We need to come together as families, communities, and countrymen to make a better world for us and our children. Does one hour, for God, per week sound like too much of which to ask?
As parents, when we start a family, we need to become faithful to attending church every Sunday. It is like brushing your teeth, if you don’t want to lose them, you must take care of them. The same can be said of your faith, and the faith your children will come to rely on in their own lives. Give them a firm foundation to build their lives on.
We as authors, seem to do everything in our stories on Sunday except have our characters go to church. As a child one of my favorite road side boards were : ch,__ ch, what is missing? ur. Are you missing?
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew 18:20
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Hebrews 10:25
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
John 4:24
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
I Corinthians 14:33
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
I Thessalonians 5:11
Gather the people together, men and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
Deuteronomy 31:12