Have you ever considered how the way you schedule your life reflects your priorities?

Jason Dohm challenges us to reevaluate how we organize our time, emphasizing that our involvement in the local church should not be an afterthought. Instead of fitting church into the gaps of our busy lives, we ought to structure our schedules around it. This prioritization stems from recognizing the mutual need between us and the local church. We benefit from the spiritual nourishment and community it provides, while the church thrives with the active participation and support of its members.

Dohm encourages us to view the local church as a central element in our family life, reflecting its significance through our actions rather than mere words. By consciously making church a priority, we honor the sacrifice of Christ, who died for the church. This commitment is not just about personal gain but about contributing to a greater community that also supports us in our walk with Christ.

Hebrews 10:25 (NKJV): "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."

Local church should be something that we schedule most other things around, not fit in after we've scheduled the other things. So when you're scheduling your life, you're planning your life, You have to decide what are the most important things, and then you have to make sure they get their due, and then you add on the other things around them. Local church should be one of a very, very, very short list of things that you make sure it gets its due because you need it and because the local church needs us. So there's this bi-directional sense of need. Me and my family need the local church, but the local church needs my family too.

So It should be a priority. It should occupy a big spot in our family. And we should communicate that it's important Jesus actually died for the church. So we should communicate that it's important not just by talking on and on about it, but by orienting our lives in ways that communicates this is a priority for us.