God is on the move! There is an incredible phenomenon happening within the universal church. According to a Barna study conducted in September of 2025, for the “first time in decades, younger adults -Gen Z and Millennials are now the most regular church goers”. As good as that news is, the same study also reports that regular attendance is NOT weekly for these generations.

Prayerfully, attendance will become regular rather than sporadic. As believers, we are better together. “And let us be concerned about one another in order to promote love and good works, not staying away from our worship meetings, as some habitually do, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day drawing near” (Hebrews 10:24-25). Church attendance is not something we have to do, it is something we GET to do!

It is good for us to gather regularly to edify one another and worship as a corporate body. My hope and prayer is that we have fun when we come to worship and give praises to the LORD. This time of worhsip gives us time to act as the body of the church and have Christian community. This community is important. It helps keep the flame going.

The Manly Men Group sits around the fire pit at most of their meetings these days. To get the fire going, we use some of the starter material and kindling. Once the kindling is going, we add the big logs. The more logs on the fire and the closer those logs are to one another, the bigger the fire roars. As long as we keep logs on the fire, the heat is maintained, and there’s plenty of oxygen, the fire keeps going. When it is time for us to conclude, we separate the burning logs. This cuts down on the heat and the log is on its own to burn. This dramatically slows the fire down.

So it is in the life of a believer. The more we are immersed in the Bible, prayer, and worship, the more on fire we can be. The longer we stay away, the cooler we may become.  If we want to keep our fire and our passion going, we can regularly pray, read our Bibles, and gather with the body of believers for worship. God is GOOD and worthy of all our worship and praise!