{"id":8431,"date":"2020-08-13T20:37:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T20:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=8431"},"modified":"2022-11-11T16:53:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T16:53:17","slug":"why-should-i-attend-bible-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=8431","title":{"rendered":"Why Should I Attend Bible School?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">[<strong>Note<\/strong><strong>:\u00a0 <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our <strong>Brief Articles 3<\/strong>\u00a0 page.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Every Sunday morning and Wednesday evening the congregation conducts Bible classes. Dedicated teachers prepare for their teaching duties each week. Lamentably, some do not take advantage of these learning opportunities. From time-to-time, some are prevented from attending by illness or other factors beyond their control. These are not the ones who cause us concern, but those who <strong>can <\/strong>come, but choose not to come, are. Many children are prevented from attending their Bible class because their parents fail to come and bring them. Babes in Christ may not have yet perceived the need to attend. Some are slaves of habitual absenteeism into which they fell years ago. Some have \u201cmore important\u201d things to do. Others are just too lazy to get up in time. Still others just do not care. The common thread of such negligence is lack of love for the Christ Who died for them. Love for the Lord equals obedience to Him (John 14:15). Please consider the following reasons why one should faithfully attend his or her Bible class each week:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">The devil is always seeking to devour us through temptation and false teaching (1 Pet. 5:8; Col. 2:8). Bible classes will help you resist him with \u201cIt is written\u201d (Mat. 4:4ff).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Jesus requires us to seek God\u2019s kingdom before everything else (Mat. 6:33). Our Bible classes are a work of the kingdom, designed to build up the kingdom. Can one seek the kingdom first and despise these opportunities for learning, edification, and fellowship?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Those who \u201chunger and thirst after righteousness\u201d shall be filled (Mat. 5:6). Those who crave more spiritual nourishment will be in their Bibles classes each week, if they are able to be.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">The Lord requires every disciple to bear fruit for Him or be cut off (John 5:2ff). Bible classes will help one have the knowledge and zeal to bear more spiritual fruit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">God wants us to \u201cgrow in the grace and knowledge\u201d of the Lord (2 Pet. 3:18). We cannot grow in His grace without continuing to grow in our knowledge of His Word. Bible classes will help you do this.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Our Bible classes are either a good or an evil work. I suppose that even those who fail to attend would not call them an \u201cevil work.\u201d God commands His people to be \u201czealous of good works\u201d (Tit. 2:14). How can one be zealous of a good work while choosing not to participate in it?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">One\u2019s attitude toward the Lord\u2019s Word is a reliable indicator of his attitude toward Christ Himself\u2014to reject one is to reject the other (John 12:48). May all of us think soberly on these truths and attend our Bible classes consistently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">[<strong>Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for and it was published in <em>The Lighthouse, <\/em>weekly bulletin of Northpoint Church of Christ, Denton, TX, August 5, 2007, of which I was editor.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Attribution<\/strong>: From <em>thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0[Note:\u00a0 This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3\u00a0 page.] Every Sunday morning and Wednesday evening the congregation conducts Bible classes. Dedicated teachers prepare for their teaching duties each week. 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