Nine Reasons for Going to Church
Illustration★★★★Theodore Roosevelt listed nine reasons for going to church: (1) In this actual world a churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade. (2) Church work and church attendance mean the cultivation of the habit of feeling some responsibility for others. (3) There are enough holidays for most of us. Sundays differ from other holidays in the fact that there are fifty-two of them every year. Therefore, on Sundays go 486-492 more charitable toward all the world, even toward those excessively foolish young men who regard churchgoing as a soft performance. (9) I advocate a man’s joining in church work for the sake of showing his faith by his works.
The point
Theodore Roosevelt lists nine compelling reasons for church attendance: community responsibility, moral development, example-setting, and the cultivation of charitable feeling. Church shapes character and social good.