We get a wide variety of questions from listeners, everything from the inferlapsarian to superlapsarian

debate, to the most perplexing details of eschatology, to people who want to know what Calvinism

is and reform theology is all about, to people who want to understand the gospel in this

very basic form.

And to people who ask, why do Christians go to church in the first place?

We never want to assume questions or answers.

So I'll ask one that I see a lot in the inbox is a very simple one, Pastor John.

Why do Christians go to church and why on Sundays?

Let's start by answering the question, who are Christians?

That's right.

I'm assuming a question so basic is being asked by somebody who's kind of looking from

the outside and may not have a real clear idea of even who we are.

Christians are people who recognize that even though, like all humans, we have been created

in the image of God, we fall short of what God expects of us and therefore we have sinned

against Him and have belittled His glory by treating the things that He made as more

valuable than He is Himself.

Christians recognize that we deserve to be punished for this.

We really do.

This is a serious offense against the Creator of the universe.

And even more, we recognize that God is not only just in His punishments, but patient

and loving.

He has sent a rescuer, his son, a redeemer, Jesus Christ into the world to bear the punishment

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