Sheryl and I drove by a little church just a couple of miles away from our house and we saw this sign “Worship Service Canceled.”  What a sad statement!! How can you cancel worship?  You can cancel the Red’s opening day parade, and baseball games.  I still can’t believe they canceled “March Madness” and you know it’s serious when they cancel  “The Masters”.  But you can’t cancel worship!   The scriptures tell us in Luke 4:8   It is written, Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only. I read in the Enquirer that a Jewish Center was not going to re-open their doors for worship.  The reason being because they never closed their doors!  The worship service is a very essential part of our Christian Faith, one of the reasons to get together is to spur one another to do good works.  Nancy Carnes wrote in her article last week, that she has really missed worshipping with her Church family.  She said like all of us, we take so much for granted. 

Through 11 weeks, Summit never missed a beat! Thanks to the foresight of great leaders at Summit who 5 years ago said we need to update our Audio/Visual part of worship.  They dreamed of putting our worship service on Facebook and Youtube, and to be available to anyone sick at home or on vacation, to be able to worship with the saints at Summit.  They dreamed of posting our songs on a screen so we would not have to look at our song books; to be able to learn new songs.  We have just witnessed the last 11 weeks, that our dreams became a reality!  Psalms 95:6 Come let us bow down in Worship, let us kneel before the lord our Maker.

Brothers and Sisters, through those 11 weeks we worshipped the Lord our God! We sang together, we prayed together, we took the Lord’s Supper together, we gave of our means together and we heard a lesson from God’s Word every Sunday!  We zoomed our Sunday night evening Worship every Sunday, and thanks to two of our Sisters we even have a class for the young kids.  Every Wednesday at 7pm we zoomed another lesson from God’s word, we have classes for the Ladies, Teens and pre-Teens.  50 of us gathered at the Church Building on Sunday to worship and I know the other 100 were worshipping with us in the comfort of their homes.  Summit NEVER canceled Worship!

Therefore I URGE you, Brothers and Sisters, in view of God’s mercy to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, THIS IS YOUR TRUE WORSHIP! God Bless!