Church Worship Attendance Checking and Grading (Enforced Worship, Compelled Attendance)


  • Enforced worship
    • "Fathers and mothers should make it a rule that their children attend public worship on the Sabbath, and should enforce the rule by their own example. It is our duty to command our children and our household after us, as did Abraham." {CG.530.3} https://egwwritings.org/?ref=en_CG.530.3&para=8.2512
  • Compelled Attendance
    • "compel them to come in, that my house may be filled." Luke 14:23
  • even strangers
    • But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates... Exodus 20:10 
  • training people to have the customs of Jesus
    • "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read." Luke 4:16
  • God checks attendance
    • "And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?" Genesis 3:9
  • good shepherd checks attendance
    • Luke 15:4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
  • sheep who are absent might be lost in sin
    • Luke 15: 6 And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
  • graded by the records
    • And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. Rev 20:12
  • check each other's attendance
    • Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? 2 Cor 13:5
  • perfect attendance in heaven worship
    • And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. Revelation 15:3
  • worship is not about us or what we think but about what God prescribes
    • But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. Genesis 4:5
  • if you are angry about checking attendance in worship, check yourself
    • But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. Genesis 4:5
  • "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together"
    • "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." Heb 10:25
  • worship is a command, not a suggetion, not a recommendation, not optional
    • 4th commandment - Remember the Sabbath day... Exodus 20:8
    • "Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." Revelation 14:7
    • however we still have our freedom of choice. "If ye love me, keep my commandments" John 14:15
    • those who enjoy worship will enjoy God's rewards (Isaiah 58:13)
Jesus was baptized even if he did not sin "to fulfill all righteousness".  So have your attendance checked also even if you want to go to church anyway, "to fulfill all righteousness". (Mat 3:15)

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