In addition the Church of God should be:
...... a place to fellowship and share. God desires His people to come together to pray, share burdens, study His Word, and to help and support each other. He wishes His people to share love for each other. The church is a place where believers join together in regular attendance; not out of obligation, but in obedience and love for God and out oflove for each other .
.... a place to be thankful. A church is a place to testify to other believers about what God has done. God is a God of miracles, and as we experience them we need to be thankful and worship Him for His mighty works .
...... a place to break Bread and share Wine together and, thereby, commune with God. God gave us the last supper, among other reasons, to bring us together to share in the Word (bread) and the Blood (life in Him) .
...... a place to pray together. People need to gather to pray in the model of the "Our Father" prayer. We need to give God's name praise and honor. We need to pray that God will help us to do on earth as it is in heaven. We need to pray for OUf daily needs and we need to ask God to forgive us of our sins. We need to publicly acknowledge Him as the holder of the Kingdom, the Power, and as all the Glory there is. We are commanded to pray for those that persecute us. We need to pray to have boards removed from our eyes. We need to pray for God to send forth harvesters. We need to pray to be able to love our enemies .
...... a place to send forth Harvesters. We need to become harvesters, as it is a command from God. As stated before, we need to preach to the lost. A church is a place to learn how to be salt and light to the world and to let the Light of the World shine throngh us. As we learn of Jesus, we can fulfill God's "great Commission" to go to the world and tell others of Him. This would fulfill God's desire for us to love our enemies .
...... a place that publicly acknowledges Him and is, therefore, often a place that brings persecution. A church is a place so radical that people of the world will hate it, because they hate God. When people hate God they hate those that acknowledge Him
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...... a place to be of one mind together. As we study and learn. more of what God wants from us, we will either fall away from Him or draw closer. Ifwe draw closer, we commune more and more with Him and then with His people .
...... a place to be baptized. God desires all new believers to be publicly baptized to encourage the believer and to show the unsaved that there is a God who will forgive them of their sins .
. ..... a place for feasts. We need to corporately celebrate God for who He is and what He has done for us. We need to be thankful, eager, worshipful, and in anticipation of God and His wonder
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...... a place for miracles and healings. God promised that if we have faith in Him, He would heal us. According to His Word, He healed people of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual problems. He healed the possessed, the insane, and the sick He did this to show His mercy, and to draw praise and glory to Himself.
...... a place to praise God. God has asked us to give Him first place in our lives. We are to praise and worship and honor Him in all we do. We need to learn and practice this in the church and model it for our children. We need to bow before God and revere Him .
...... a place to prophesy. God has sent us prophets and we need to listen to them. We need to be able to discern true prophesy, by seeing ifit comes to pass and by comparing their words to His Word .
.. .... a place to enjoy the favor of all. We need to respect all of God's people and enjoy them .
...... a place to present gifts. We are told by God to give of what we gain. We need to give to the needy, the widows, and the orphans. We need to give to those God has asked us to give to, whether they be pastors, preachers, teachers, apostles, prophets, or evangelists. No one is to profit off of the Word of God, but we are commanded to give to those He asks us to give to.