Planning on attending worship today? Great! It’s a start!

Attending is not all there is to it, however. You don’t make your way into heaven by osmosis, or simply by attending church in order to please your wife or Mother-in-law.

Worship is vital for your soul, and it is vitally important to take something positive away from worship.

In the book of James (1:22) the writer reminds us, “Do not merely listen to the Word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.”

If you hear the Word of God proclaimed, the next logical step is to be obedient to that Word. We are to be doers, not merely hearers of what the Lord has to say to us.

That can be a difficult message for the independent minded among us, but it is God’s will that we conformed to His image and that begins by paying attention during worship, learning the lessons offered in Scripture and applying those lessons in the real world.

That is one way you grow in faith, so come on, let’s grow together. Pastor Jim.