Friday, March 16, 2012

Preparing for corporate worship

Many of Jesus' disciples left Him after hearing some hard teaching, according to John 6:66. When they did, Jesus asked the 12, "You do not want to go away also, do you?" Peter responded, saying, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life. We have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God." We will gather this Sunday because of those truths: Jesus has the words of eternal life, those proclaimed by Him and His apostles in the gospel. We know that He alone is righteous, and His righteousness has been credited to us because of His life and death in our place, the sovereign grace of God toward us, and the saving faith that has been granted to us. We will read and sing about those truths. We will pray on the basis of those truths. We will hear those truths proclaimed again, this time from the gospel of Luke. And we will relate to one another on the basis of those truths. May we arrive at our gathering place realizing the necessity and sufficiency of those truths for us as a church and delight in, praise, thank and humble ourselves before Him. May we treasure Jesus as never before. To whom else shall we go?

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