New Testament patterns clearly show that the normal practice of the church is to meet for embodied acts of corporate worship and mutual edification. - Matt Merker

Matt Merker led a workshop at the 2021 TGC National Conference titled “Gathered by God’s Grace” to encourage pastors as they move toward assembling in more traditional ways after tight guidelines from the pandemic are loosened. He walked through the gathering of God’s people in both the Old and New Testaments, focusing on how they informed two particular ideas:

• Why gathering is so essential for the life of the church.
• Why it matters that God is the One who gathers us and works in our midst during our corporate worship.