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What does the Bible say about attending church?

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The Bible teaches that believers should gather regularly with God’s people for worship, fellowship, encouragement, and mutual growth in Christ. Hebrews 10:24-25 urges Christians not to neglect meeting together, but to stir one another up to love and good works. In the church, God’s household and pillar of the truth, believers walk in the light together through Christ’s cleansing blood (1 Timothy 3:15; 1 John 1:7). Corporate worship joins the joyful praise of Psalm 150 with the gladness of Psalm 122:1, and Christ promises His special presence among those gathered in His name (Matthew 18:20). Church attendance does not earn salvation, but it is a vital means by which God strengthens His redeemed people through Word, prayer, worship, and fellowship.

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  • Hebrews 10:24-25 18 votes

    Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

  • 1 John 1:7 9 votes

    But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

  • Psalms 150:1-6 8 votes

    Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre! Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute! Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with resounding cymbals! Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!

  • Matthew 18:20 7 votes

    For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

  • 1 Timothy 3:15 5 votes

    but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

  • Hebrews 10:23-25 5 votes

    let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful. Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

  • Psalms 122:1 5 votes

    I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

  • Psalms 40:9-10 4 votes

    I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know. I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

  • Psalms 84:4 3 votes

    Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah.

  • Luke 4:16 2 votes

    He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

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