In today's episode of Ask Paul Tripp, just like the last episode,

we're going to feature three more archived answers from Paul.

These three have a common thread of church, discipleship, and relationships.

The first question is, what's the point of going to church on Sunday?

Well, I can tell you for sure, Paul Tripp loves Sunday morning. I love the

anticipation of that drive to an Epiphany Fellowship in the northern part of the center of

Philadelphia.

I love what I'm going to get there, and I love it because I know I need it.

I need two things that are so important, such an important part of corporate worship.

I need to be taught again and again and again.

I need the biblical story applied to my story,

so I live with a God's story mentality.

Now, I need more than just abstract teaching.

What I love about the teaching in the church is, I'm taught by a pastor who is with us,

who walks long term with us, who knows us, who can speak that those truths

in with a specificity to people that he knows and he loves and there's a tenderness and compassion

and a passion for us to get it because he lives with us.

I don't think anything replaces pastoral preaching.

Books don't replace that.

The Internet doesn't replace that.

Conferences doesn't replace that.

I know I'm loved by him. He speaks out of that love. We are known to him and that that pastoral preaching is a beautiful thing. I need corporate worship. I need to be reminded of the truths of the

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