Have Churches Become Just Another Social Gathering?
The Sunday Medicine
Every now and then, people come together in small or large groups for social purposes or to promote community. These social gatherings could be formal or informal and are usually organized for specific reasons. Whether it’s a company-organized end-of-the-year celebration or a community-organized meet and greet, the purpose of the gatherings is usually precisely stated.
Religious people of the Christian extraction also organize gatherings; religious gatherings. The most popular and most important of these gatherings happen on Sunday. Hundred of millions of Christians all around the world gather every Sunday to worship, to pray, and to listen to the teachings of Jesus. The Christians understand these gatherings as a strictly religious affair, “We are gathered in the name of the Lord,” they would say.
The Christian religious gathering is backed by scriptures. Paul encouraged Christians should gather occasionally to exhort one another.
Hebrews 10:25(KJV) — Not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Although St. Paul the Apostle advised the Jewish Christians in Jerusalem to always gather, he didn’t offer any advice…
