The psalmist said, \u2018I was glad when they said to me, \u201cLet us go into the house of the Lord.\u201d\u2019<\/i> Do you<\/i> feel that way about God\u2019s house too? And if not, why not? <\/p>\n
Paul writes: \u2018You are members of God\u2019s family. Together, we are His house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus Himself. We are carefully joined together in Him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord. Through Him you… are also being made part of this dwelling where God lives by His Spirit.\u2019<\/i> (Ephesians\u00a02:19\u201322\u00a0NLT) There are times when you need to be alone with God in prayer; there are times you\u2019ll only find the answer you seek when you\u2019re with God\u2019s people. When those who are indwelt by God\u2019s Spirit meet for worship, teaching, encouragement and service, God shows up in a powerful way. You grow spiritually as you experience His presence, hear His Word, and fellowship with your brothers and sisters in Christ. Every time you gather with other members of Christ\u2019s body, it reminds you again that you\u2019re on the winning side. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to celebrate by yourself. When you\u2019ve something worth celebrating you generally call people together so you can share the joy, right? Jesus is so excited about His victory at the cross, that He calls us together every week to celebrate what He accomplished for us. And celebration, like spiritual growth, is a group project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The psalmist said, \u2018I was glad when they said to me, \u201cLet us go into the house of the Lord.\u201d\u2019 Do you feel that way about God\u2019s house too? And if not, why not? Paul writes: \u2018You are members of God\u2019s family. Together, we are His house, built on the foundation of the apostles and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}