How Worship Brings Spiritual Maturity?| Part 3, CHRISTIANS MUST WORSHIP TOGETHER

The discovery and practice of the gifts of the Holy Spirit within the local church is for the express benefit of the congregation and its responsibility to fulfill the Great Commission.

1 Corinthians 12:12–21: "For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. [13] For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. [14] For the body does not consist of one member but of many. [15] If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. [16] And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. [17] If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? [18] But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. [19] If all were a single member, where would the body be? [20] As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. [21] The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” (ESV)

From as far back as history records God’s people gathered regularly to worship God together. It is thought that when Genesis says about Seth the son of Adam and Eve that during his life “Men began to call upon the name of the Lord” this was an acknowledgment of the beginning of public and corporate gatherings of God’s people. It may easily be observed in Old Testament Israel, post-exilic Israel, and in the New Testament churches. 

Robert G. Rayburn: “The Church of Jesus Christ is by definition a worshiping community called into being by God to be a ‘spiritual house…a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Pet. 2:5).’” O Come Let Us Worship: Corporate Worship in the Evangelical Church

Evangelical Dictionary of Theology: “The Christian church has from the very beginning gathered regularly for corporate worship.” EDOT, p. 1302.

This isn’t a coincidence but gathering for worship and edification is intentional, even commanded. Listen to Hebrews 10:19-25 as I read take note of the second person plural pronouns, corporate confession of belief, mutual dependence, and open exhortation concerning regular worship gatherings.