As followers of Christ, believers are called to gather together in community to worship, learn, and serve. In Matthew 28:19-20, Jesus commissions His disciples to make more disciples, teaching them to observe His commands. The church is also described in Colossians 3:16 as a place where believers let the word of Christ dwell richly, and in 1 Peter 2:9-10 as a royal priesthood, proclaiming God's praises. Ephesians 2:19-22 and Hebrews 10:25 further emphasize the importance of believers gathering together, building each other up, and holding fast to their faith.
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Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone. In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord. And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.
Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,
Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight, you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
And it was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for works of ministry and to build up the body of Christ,
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.