This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine

Today I’m going to talk about why we need to come to church. I have heard it said before that we come to church to get our battery recharged. Being filled with the Holy Spirit is sometimes referred to as letting your light shine. The Holy Spirit makes us glow, but without the church, our batteries can run low and our light get dim. Furthermore, if we don’t come to church, we are just a single little light flickering out there in the darkness because, friends, this world is a cold dark place. The prince of darkness has an ever growing army. They are out there all around us. He is surrounding you with his army of darkness. He cannot put your light out, but he wants to keep your light dim. He most certainly doesn’t want it spreading to others. We need to go to church and we need to actively seek others to bring them in out of the darkness. We don’t want to just leave them out there in the darkness all alone.

When someone is led to the Lord, they are just like a little child. They need to grow and to become a mature Christian in a process which is called sanctification and it is done through Bible study and prayer. The church is the perfect environment for a young Christian to grow in. you would not send a young child out alone into the darkness. A young Christian needs to be in church. What happens when they go out alone, to face the world? They find trouble.

We’re all gonna have some trouble sometime and sometimes it just weighs us down. If you are carrying your burden alone, it may be more than you can bear. But at the church, there is help.

You can pray alone. But at the church, you’ll find that you have brothers and sisters in Christ who will pray with you. Maybe they’ll have some words of advice or comfort that will come from their own hearts or perhaps they’ll give you advice or comfort that comes from God’s own word.

Perhaps there is somebody who is in need of you to giving them advice or comfort. Perhaps somebody needs you to pray with them. As a church, we are all bound together by love’s strong cord. We are a family. We love one another and we help one another. We are the body of Christ, and the body needs all of its parts to function properly.

Don’t be a single light, dimly glowing in the darkness. Come to church and grow and glow! Seek out the ones who are out there alone and bring them to church.

What if they were to announce over the radio, the television and the Internet that today God is declaring war against Satan and his army. That God is looking for volunteers. All those interested in joining God‘s army be present Sunday morning at your local church house for training. Well, friends that’s exactly how it is. We are at war with Satan and we need more soldiers in God‘s army. To battle against the sin and the evil that is escalating more every day. That is why we need to come to church.

So come to church and let your light shine.