There is no lone ranger Christianity. There's no such thing. You need the body. I need the body.

We need one another because we belong to one another.

It would have blown the circuits in any apostles' head or any prophets' head or any disciples' head

to hear a Christian talk about not needing to go to worship, let alone not wanting to go to worship.

Church attendance, at least in the U.S., seems to be declining.

But what may be of more concern, as you'll hear today, is of those who do attend church, on average, they only go once a month.

Many of us have forgotten that we were created for corporate worship.

Thanks for joining us for today's edition of Renewing Our Mind,

where featuring messages from Jason Holopolis' new teaching series created for worship.

Ever since I became a Christian, I've met professing Christians who claim that they don't need to go to church.

I can think of several now who, although claiming to be a follower of Christ, never attend a gathering of Christians on the Lord's day,

maybe you know someone like that. Maybe that's you. Maybe you go to corporate worship most weeks,

but you certainly wouldn't call it the highlight of your week.

Well, I'm glad that you're with us, and I hope Reverend Holopolis' message today is an encouragement.

As he makes the case, the Christians have been created for corporate worship.

Let me give you just in summary a few principles to think about, as I think about corporate worship,

and what should mark it as we think of gathering together with God's people and God's presence on Sundays,

and do that in his presence.

One, it should be word-centered. We've looked at that already, we're going to continue to look at that,

that we read the word, we preach the word, we sing the word, we pray the word,

we see the word in the sacraments, we confess the word, so it is a word-saturated service.

Second, it's to be doxological, and we've referenced that as well, that it is all to the praise of God.

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