{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"New Song Church OKC","title":"From Here To There - Why Going To Church Matters","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2486,"description":" Psalm 122:1 I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!”\nPRODUCTION TEAM PIC\nWHY GOING TO CHURCH MATTERS\nEphesians 5:25 Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.\nMy purpose is tied to the local church.\nThe church is not a place I go to, and it's not an event I attend. It is a spiritual family that I belong to. \nActs 2:41-24, 46A church is a group of baptized believers who are joined together in a commitment to help each others fulfill God's purpose for their lives. \n#1. God’s Presence\n\nPsalm 139:7–10 \n\n1 Corinthians 3:16 Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? \n\nJohn 14:21He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him. \n\n“Manifest” - to exhibit to view, to come to view, appear, to make known \n\nExodus 25:8 And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. \n\nExodus 25:22And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you \n\nMatthew 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”\n\nGod shows up where He’s invited.\n\n“There will be no manifestation of the presence of Christ without acute desire. God waits to be wanted. Sadly, He often must wait so very long”. - A.W. Tozer\n\nExodus 33:15 “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. 16 For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us?\n\n#2. God’s Power\nMatthew 18:19 “Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”\n\nDeuteronomy 32:30 How could one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand a flight. \n\nPsalm 92:13 Those who are planted in the house of the Lord Shall flourish in the courts of our God. \n\nflourishto blossom to the point of fruit.\n\nIn God’s presence you...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/bnHuiqv1vzbVKS3-CGSScUOuOFSAm4CGeToUp1bnpos/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zOTVl/MTRhMTgxNzM4MDZl/YmFlNGVmYzkzMGRm/MjkyZi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}