The Called Out

As the church we must always remember that we are God’s summoned people. We are the ekklesia, the called out ones, drawn to the Father through the Son by the Spirit in relationship. As one big family we are brought together each week on the Lord’s Day to be renewed and blessed.

What we do in gathered worship is not like the Kiwanas or any voluntary association where we decided to have a meeting and therefore could decide to cancel it or not show up because we found something better to do. This doesn’t mean God calls us to meet with him against our will; if we are loving him, this becomes refreshing and our greatest joy. This is a weekly day of rest, rejoicing, fellowship, and covenant renewal with our creator and redeemer.

But we want to be disciples in worship, and remember that everything we do here is about God, and not us. We’re not the customer, nor are the unchurched. Everyone is welcomed and in fact also called by God to taste and see that he gracious—but God is the customer. He is the one we are trying to please.   

This his day. The Fourth Commandment says “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy” (Ex. 20:8-11).

After Jesus rose from the dead on the first day—Sunday, not Saturday—the church didn’t say “Finally, we no longer have to rest and worship.” They began meeting on the Lord’s Day, on Sunday, for teaching, prayer, confession, tithing, and communion, all the things we’ve done ever since. The writer of Hebrews says “Let us not neglect to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near” (10:25).

This is the first day of the week because we build the rest upon it. Don’t bring God your last or worst fruits, but your best. Rest in him, rejoice, and worship him with all of your heart, soul, mind and strength.

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