Gathered for Good: God’s Good Design for the Local Church

We live in a season when church attendance is still building back to what it was before the pandemic. Many Christians have been separated from their church communities. How do we resume and re-prioritize church life and join back together? Why do we even need to—especially when online church fits so neatly around our schedules? Gathered for Good addresses this felt need with empathy and authority and encourage believers to commit to their local church community as a way to deepen their spiritual growth and invest in treasure that will last.

Jonathan Griffiths offers a path that calls Christians to “gather.” As believers, Jonathan reminds us that God’s design for our lives is to gather to serve, to give, to commit, and several other reasons that are discussed powerfully. But above all, God’s gift to his people is that gathering is for our own good.

Jonathan Griffiths serves as Lead Pastor at The Met in Ottawa, Canada, Executive Director of the Timothy Trust, and Council member of the Gospel Coalition Canada. His syndicated daily radio program, Encounter the Truth, reaches hundreds of thousands of listeners in Canada and the United States on Moody Radio and other networks. He studied theology at the University of Oxford and hold a PhD in New Testament Studies from the University of Cambridge. He is author of a number of books. Jonathan takes a keen interest in politics, economics and current affairs. He is married to Gemma, and together they have three children.