- PHC Kingston
- Nov 16, 2024
- 4 min read
We often hear this saying from churchgoers or their friends and families. It's typically said after they hear about yet another church event that isn't part of the usual Sunday service.
Being a Christian is often reduced to attending church for a couple of hours on a Sunday, and that's it. But we find that disciples are more involved. They attend Bible studies, fellowships, mid-week services, outreaches, and any other events the church might organize—hence the saying, "It's not everyday church." But why is that seen as a bad thing?
Making yourself available to be a part of the church outside of Sunday is a choice. It requires the desire to get up on a Saturday morning to hit the streets and spread the gospel. So, if someone has this desire, who are we to tell them otherwise? What makes it any different from someone who wants to wake up on a Saturday morning to go shopping? It's funny how the issue only arises when it's something associated with Jesus.
We make the choice to turn away from our old ways and give ourselves to Christ. We repent and dedicate our lives to His glory. So, are we saying that this can or should only be done within a few hours on a Sunday? To live for Christ may not mean "it's everyday church," since the building isn't open daily. However, "everyday church" can be achieved by incorporating Christ into your daily life. This means, at work, when colleagues ask, "What did you get up to over the weekend?" you're not ashamed to admit, "I went to Bible study" or "We went street preaching." "Everyday church" is praying and worshiping at home, not just binge-watching TV. "Everyday church" is loving your enemies and helping those in need without expecting anything in return.
As much as the phrase "it's not everyday church" makes sense because, yes, we should have time to rest and spend with family, at the same time, we are the church. We should fulfil our duties whether or not we are physically at church.
The Fellowship of the Believers
Acts 2:42-47
42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
1 Timothy 3:14-15
14 Although I hope to come to you soon, I am writing you these instructions so that, 15 if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
Romans 12:4–5
For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
Ephesians 2:19–22
19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household,20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22 And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
1 Corinthians 14:26
26 What then shall we say, brothers and sisters?When you come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up.
Hebrews 10:24–25
24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Unity and Diversity in the Body
1 Corinthians 12:12–26
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by[a] one Spiritso as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
15 Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body.16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19 If they were all one part, where would the body be?20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
