by Alex Kee

Created on: October 11, 2007

The sole purpose of the regular gathering of Christians in one common place is worship and edification.

It was never meant to be a religious activity of sort for e.g. to gain merit or mark attendance or else to face punishment for being AWOL (absent without official leave).

In the new testament times, meetings had to be done in secret because it was a against Roman law to be a Christian but the people gather nonetheless with undeterred fervency and regularity.

In modern times, the underground church in China met under similar Roman prohibition circumstances and the church grew under persecution, the greater the persecution, the faster the growth!

There was never a question of going or not going to church, they all went because they all wanted to worship God and be an encouragement to other fellow believers in Christ even to their own peril and at great cost of even losing their lives.

Today, when Christianity is no longer persecuted and church buildings had become symbols of shameful opulence, going to church in one's Sunday's best is often like going to a fashion show competition to show off one's latest material outfit than in humility before God and with the intention to be a blessing to others.

Christianity has become a middle class religion and sadly, the ostentatious trappings that came with the peculiar exhibitionist tendencies of the middle class mentality.

Nonetheless, regardless of the dirt that may abound in the church, if your intention is just to worship God and be a blessing to others, you ought not to stop going. For to do so would be to perpetuate the inevitable of in breeding as like minded people like you dropped off from the congregation.

If you really feel it is a futile to continue going to effect change, then, let the church come to you.

Start a house church by opening up your home and have regular meetings with like minded people, a return to the first century churches where people meet in homes rather than church buildings.

Back to basics you may say, but in life, this is sometimes the sad facts, we have gone off so much in a tangent that we have lost what we have first sought out to achieve.

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