We gather together, in the Spirit, to worship the Father through His Son, Jesus Christ. Every human person or community worships something. Our human nature is designed to give allegiance to what we value as ultimately good. When we gather, we choose to acknowledge as a community that Jesus is our King, His reign is supreme and His rule is ultimately good. We adopt the ancient words ‘You are our God. We will be Your people’ and pledge our allegiance to Him with sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving.
We gather to be formed more fully into the people God desires. The gathering is a place where we submit to Christ and to each other. Committed to living in His ways, we come together to sit under His Word, in the power of His Spirit for personal and corporate transformation. The gathering is the place of formation, not merely information. The Word is not only proclaimed and taught – but enacted and obeyed together through shared prayers of repentance and faith in Jesus, times of confession and forgiveness.
We gather because we are One. We have been gathered up, into ‘One Body’. Salvation is no personal, private, individual affair. The place of salvation is being re-imaged, re-created persons ‘in Christ’ – and so we are saved along with others to form His Body, the new re-imaged humanity. Gathering both expresses and enacts the Oneness of who we are.
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