What is the plan for us? Is there a plan for us? does what we do matter?
The above are just some of the questions that have plagued society since the beginning. Different people come to different answers depending on the assumptions that they base their life upon. For the Christian believer, The plan is for all people to come to obey God's will through Christ and the power of the Holy spirit. While the actual plan is both more complicated than that and certainly not fully in our knowledge, the important thing is that God has a PLAN and a PURPOSE for us, and that through being a part of the body of Christ we can begin to fulfill it.
The real issue is how to go about fulfilling this plan in our day to day lives. While it is a multifarious issue, I think that a critical component is to be attending church regularly and being an active member as much as possible. A friend of mine directed be to a great resource on the subject, a series of sermons that can be found here (relevant sermons under the title THE CHURCH). They talk about how we cannot expect to grow and prosper as Christians without serving in fellowship with a community of believers, people to keep us honest and accountable in our spiritual walk, as well as to love and comfort and support us. Without a church we can too easily get separated from Christ and block out God's plan for us when we do not surround ourselves with co-heirs in Christ.
My point is not to judge the circumstances to others, only to encourage all to not only attend church but to be meaningful members of it. I think that if we cannot positively contribute to our church community and do God's where there then how less likely is it will we live and express God in all His majesty and glory outside church? In such an individualistic age as our own the temptation to drift from Christ perhaps make church even more important than in the past.
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