\n“For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them.” Matthew 18:20<\/em>\u00a0 <\/div>\n
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Some people are put off by the idea of person-to-person contact. They are satisfied watching a church service on TV and if they do enter the church they are happiest sitting quietly in the pew, hoping no one says “hello” or shakes their hand. They miss alot.<\/div>\n
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Adrian Rogers would tell the story about a fellow who courted a girl by writing her a beautiful love letter every day for two years. He thought that would be a wonderful way to court her. Do you know what happened? She married the mail carrier!\u00a0 <\/div>\n
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There is nothing like being there<\/u>. There is nothing like personal contact. There is a sense in which Jesus Christ is present when His people gather that’s not in any other sense. You cannot get it the same way at home or even “alone” in a crowd.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Next Sunday we will kick off our semester of small group gatherings. Wednesday nights will be alive again. There will be many opportunties. I will be leading a Sunday night series on Being the Church. We will have much one-on-one discussion. Later in the week you will be getting a mail out listing all the opportunities to “be there.” Look it over carefully and decide to attend something. Do it with the intention of increasing your personal contact.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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If small groups aren’t important, I wonder why Satan works so hard to keep folks away. Participate and be blessed.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
Nick <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them.” Matthew 18:20\u00a0 \u00a0 Some people are put off by the idea of person-to-person contact. They are satisfied watching a church service on TV and if they do enter the church they are happiest sitting quietly in the pew, hoping no one says “hello” or shakes their hand. They miss alot. Adrian Rogers would tell the story about a fellow who courted a girl by writing her a beautiful love letter every day for two years. He thought that would be a wonderful way to court her. Do you know what happened? She married the mail carrier!\u00a0 \u00a0 There is nothing like being there. There is nothing like personal contact. There is a sense in which Jesus Christ is present when His people gather that’s not in any other sense. You cannot get it the same way at home or even “alone” in a crowd.\u00a0 Next Sunday we will kick off our semester of small group gatherings. Wednesday nights will be alive again. There will be many opportunties. I will be leading a Sunday night series on Being the Church. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}