are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another-and all the more as you see the Day approaching” (Heb. 10:25). Gathering together as the body of Christ is important because, as John Murray once said, “it is one of the principal ways of giving expression to the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, and to the communion of the saints with one another in the oneness of Christ’s body.”7 Several key questions need to be considered when it comes to public worship. What is public worship?