Some quotes for your Sabbath reflection:

“Therefore, when God’s people meet together for worship, that meeting is of more significance than a summit meeting of heads of state to decide on a treaty of peace between great nations. It is more important than a meeting of the city council or the state legislature, more important than a meeting or the United Nations or of Congress or Parliament. For in that meeting God Himself meets with His people.”¹

“The apostles and the early church prioritised meeting together, even risking their own lives for the privilege – as many since have done down through the ages. Yes, we have technology that they did not have. But can we pretend to believe that if they had had our technology, they would have chosen it above gathering?”² (Page 119)

“The circumstances in which Paul exhorted the Hebrew Christians to continue meeting were such that, through fear of persecution, confiscation of property, imprisonment-many had ceased to attend public assemblies. The apostle instructed them to meet nevertheless, even though such meetings exposed worshippers to dangers to liberty or even life itself.” (Page 152)³

1. Worship in the Presence of God, 243. ↩︎
2. Ibid., 152. ↩︎
3. Worship and Witness in Crisis, 119. ↩︎