Jesus, help me realize that Christian fellowship is vital to me. Help me understand that I can’t make it without good Christian friends and people who are more mature than me. Also, provide me with good spiritual leaders. Provide me with people who have been given special spiritual skills and anointed gifts. Let these special spiritual skills and gifts help me with my spiritual growth. Even though finding them can be a real challenge, help me find them.

Make it clear to me that just because a building has a church name on the front and people get together to go through church services, doesn’t make them a good congregation or a good church. Teach me that going to church is very important; but going to a GOOD church is even more important.

Jesus, help me find a good church that has good Christians who are REALLY living the Christian life. Help me find a good church that has good leaders who are teaching the truths of God’s Word and applying them to their own life. Help me find a good church is showing me how to establish a close and intimate relationship with God for myself.

In other words, rather than just telling me what to believe and trying to tell me what the Bible means, they will also be teaching me how to gradually start growing in my ability to receive training from You on a personal level.