Why we need each other as Christians.

 Why we need each other as Christians.

Hebrews 10:25 is most often used, by preachers, as a way to get people to church on Sunday morning. The meaning is so much more than coming to a church service. Just back up one verse and read 24 and 25 together.

Hebrews 10:24-25 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

The emphasis is on us to be loving others. To stir them up, encourage them and we best do this by make sure that we are getting together. The assembling of ourselves is speaking of anywhere and at any time. Really, we should be looking for opportunities every day in how we can get together with other believers. Our heart should be how can I love someone else today and how can I stir them up to love and good works.
It is about relationship. Sadly today, in the church, we have turned discipleship into a class, accountability into a servant master thing, and the body of Christ into a dysfunctional family. Do you know that I have not found one direct reference in the New Testament to the church being a family? Do you know what I do find the church referenced as in the New Testament? The Body, the Body of Christ. (Romans 12:5, 1 Cor. 10:17, 1 Cor. 12:12-27, Eph. 1:22-23, Eph. 4:15-16, Eph. 5:30, Col. 1:18, Col. 1:24, Col. 2:19).

I believe that if we started looking at other believers as a part of the body instead of as just a member of a family, I think that we would treat each other better than we often do. Seriously, how many times have you heard one of your siblings, parents, children, aunts, uncles, cousins without even thinking about it or even caring or maybe not knowing that you did? Now tell me the last time you hit any part of your body with a hammer and didn’t know it? If someone purposely hurts themselves, we don’t think that is something that is normal, do we? NO, if someone purposely hurts themselves, we know that something is not right with them and that they need some form of help.
So, when we are hurting other believers, we are hurting the body that we belong to. When any part of my physical body hurts, I hurt. That is how it is supposed to be with the church, the body of Christ. 1 Corinthians 12:26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Look at these other scriptures.

Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
James 5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

Isn’t it obvious that we need each other and that it is better to be in relationship with other believers than not? Do we not understand that one of the tactics of the enemy is to get us separated from other believers? Look at how predators attack animals. They don’t just go attack the whole herd. They look for one to get separated of find ways to separate one from the rest and then they attack. Armies do this. They try and get parts of the other army separated so that they can destroy it because together they are strong but separate they are weak.
Look at Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Two are better than one, Because they have a good reward for their labor.10 For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, For he has no one to help him up. 11 Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm;
But how can one be warm alone? 12 Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
We walk a more victorious and blessed life in relationship with other believers. The Christian life wasn’t mean to be done by yourself. I would say that we weren’t meant to be Lone Ranger Christians but even the Lone Ranger had Tonto. When you have those relationships with other believers make sure that you don’t let them go or be destroyed easily. You wouldn’t just let someone come and cut your pinkie toe off now, would you? I doubt it. If someone on the street tried to cut your pinkie off you would run away from them or fight them. Do the same with anything that would try and cut off your relationship with another believer. Offense, bitterness, pride, disagreement, misunderstandings, runaway from them or cut them off. Do whatever you need to so that you keep them from cutting off a relationship with another believer.