Three Reasons You Need a Church Family

[Three Reasons You Need a Church Family]( Current Teaching Series [How the Church Meets Your Deepest Needs]( [Listen to Today's Broadcast]( [Three Reasons You Need a Church Family]( By Rick Warren — 03/03/2022 [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Pinterest]( [Email]( “Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.” Romans 12:4-5 (NLT) When it comes to going to church, God doesn’t want you just to attend church—he wants you to belong to a church family. The Bible says, “Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other” (Romans 12:4-5 NLT). I can always tell the difference between a Saddleback church attender and a church member. An attender will come up to me in the grocery store and say, “Pastor Rick, I love your church.” They say your church. But a member says, “Pastor Rick, I love our church.” Have you made that jump? Have you made the switch from consumer to contributor, from attender to member, from longing to belonging? Here are three reasons why you should belong to a church family: A church family helps you focus on God. These days it’s easy to get distracted by details, disturbances, dead-ends, delays, and difficulties. But coming together with a church family will help you focus on God. The more you choose to focus on God, the bigger he gets in your mind and the smaller your problems become. A church family helps you face life’s problems. Right now, you’re in one of three positions. Either you just came out of a problem, you’re in the middle of a problem, or you’re headed into the next problem. Life is a series of problems that God never meant for you to handle on your own. That’s why he built a support group of people around you—the church—who are right there in the fight with you. You’re not alone. A church family helps you fortify your faith. Fortify means to strengthen, to reinforce, and to develop. When you’re in relationship with other people in God’s family, you get the right support. They encourage you to create the right priorities, helping you decide what’s trivial and what matters most. This clarifies your values and fortifies your faith. There are a lot of ideas in the world today that just aren’t true and make it easy to lose sight of God’s purpose for your life. Belonging to a church family helps you focus on God, face life’s problems, and fortify your faith. And that will make all the difference in your life. [PLAY today’s audio teaching from Pastor Rick >>]( Talk It Over - What church family do you belong to? If you’re not part of a church family, what keeps you from joining one? - How has your church family helped you focus more on God? - What problem are you facing right now? How can you lean on your church family to help you through it? 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[LEARN MORE]( [Series Summary]( Message 1: Why You Absolutely Need a Church Family Message 2: You Need Others for Spiritual Support Message 3: Sharing Your Hope with Others Message 4: How Worshiping with Others Changes You [PLAY TODAY'S BROADCAST]( Pastor Rick Warren [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Linkedin]( Enjoy today's devotional? Listen to Pastor Rick’s daily audio teaching at [PastorRick.com]( Did someone forward this devotional to you? [Subscribe to Pastor Rick Warren's Daily Devotional.]( As the founding pastor of Saddleback Church with his wife Kay, Dr. Rick Warren leads a 30,000-member congregation in California with campuses in major cities around the world. As an author, his book [The Purpose Driven Life]( is one of the best-selling nonfiction books in publishing history. It has been translated into 74 languages and sold more than 50 million copies in all formats. His book [The Purpose Driven Church]( was named one of the 100 Christian books that changed the century. 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