We Need Our Church Community | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | December 1, 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my friend. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to today's word of encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:10.4 | The reading for today titled We Need Our Church Community, was written by John Blaze. |
| 0:16.4 | I grew up the first-born son of a Southern Baptist preacher. |
| 0:22.9 | Every Sunday, the expectation was clear. I was to be in church. Possible exceptions? Maybe if I had a significant fever, |
| 0:31.3 | but the truth is, I absolutely loved going, and I even went a few times feverish. But the world has changed, |
| 0:40.3 | and the numbers for regular church attendance are not what they used to be. Of course, the quick |
| 0:45.9 | question is why. The answers are many and varied. Author Kathleen Norris counters those answers |
| 0:53.9 | with a response she received from a pastor to the |
| 0:56.8 | question, why do we go to church? He said, we go to church for other people, because someone may |
| 1:03.7 | need you there. Now, by no means is that the only reason we go to church, but his response does |
| 1:10.5 | resonate with the heartbeat of the writer to the Hebrews. we go to church, but his response does resonate with the heartbeat of the |
| 1:12.1 | writer to the Hebrews. He urged the believers to persevere in the faith, and to achieve that |
| 1:18.0 | goal, he stressed, not giving up meeting together. Why? Because something vital would be |
| 1:23.8 | missed in our absence, encouraging one another. We need that mutual encouragement to spur one another on toward love and good deeds. |
| 1:33.6 | Brothers and sisters keep meeting together because someone may need you there, |
| 1:38.0 | and the corresponding truth is that you may need them as well. |
| 1:46.9 | Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Hebrews chapter 10, |
| 1:52.3 | verses 19 through 25. |
| 1:55.3 | Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the most holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain that is his body, |
| 2:08.3 | and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our heart |
| 2:19.5 | sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience, and having our bodies washed with pure water. |
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