The habit of weekly worship
One weekly habit that is utterly essential to any healthy, life-giving, joy-producing Christian walk is corporate worship . And it is all too often neglected, or taken very lightly, in our day of disembodiment and in our proclivity for being noncommittal . In fact, I do not think it is too strong to call corporate worship the single most important habit of the Christian life . We may think it’s a new temptation today to play fast and loose with corporate worship, but the book of Hebrews gives another impression. Actually, speaking of habits, Hebrews 10:24–25 is the only use of the word “habit” in our English translations of the New Testament . Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. (Hebrews 10:24–25) By clearly delineating a bad habit that we must not develop — “neglecting to meet together” — Hebrews is ...