Another Reason to Attend Church

If you are a Christian, somewhere along the way you've been taught to attend church or "meet together" with other believers. The biblical reasons for doing so are to receive encouragement (Hebrews 10:25), hear the preached Word of God (2 Timothy 4:2), be equipped to serve God (Ephesians 4:11-13), pray (I Timothy 2:1), and praise God (Colossians 3:16).

I want to suggest another extremely important reason: to evangelize.  Yes, your attendance and active participation in a worship service can be an act of evangelism (evangelism is telling & showing others God's worth as revealed through the Gospel of Jesus Christ or you could say that evangelism is simply recruiting more worshippers for God).

How is worship part of evangelism?

1-Unbelievers are present in most weekend worship services ... so they are watching you!! This means your worship is a witness because how you are responding to God is showing unbelievers how much God means to you. While unbelievers cannot worship God because they do not yet know Who He really is, they are still worshipping something (we are all pre-wired to worship) so they understand passion, excitement, and authenticity.  The fact is most unbelievers see more worship at a football game than in a church. Some suggestions to improve your worship witness:

a) Sit like you are interested and excited about what is going to happen.  If someone offered you tickets on the 50-yard line or the end zone 'nose bleeds', you'll take the 50 every time.
b) Sing. Read the psalms, read the OT, read the NT, and note how many times music is involved ... you will see that music is like God's "love language". God loves for His people to sing His praises. He is drawn to it.  A side benefit is that the more you participate in a service, the more you'll tend to enjoy it.
At RBCC, we are very intentional about picking songs that are easy to sing and easy to learn. We talk about and evaluate this literally EVERY week because it is that important to our overall worship environment.
c) Take notes during the sermon. Again, you'll get more out of it and you demonstrate the "weight" of God's Word in your life.

2-God is attracted to worship and when God shows up in a service, people don't tend to stay unaffected. In fact, the Apostle Paul taught that when worship is rightly focused, rightly ordered, and God's Word rightly preached then unbelievers will be converted and become worshippers --

"...if an unbeliever or some inquirer comes in [to a worship service] ... he will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, 'God is really among you!'" {I Cor. 14:24,25}

3-Worship fuels evangelism. When we worship God, we are declaring His infinite worth and value to us. This also should produce a burden in us for those who do not yet know the God we worship.  So worship drives us to tell others (i.e.-evangelize) about the worth of God.

May people say every week at RBCC that "God is really among us!"