If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this! If you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it. If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope!
Why Go To Church?
A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."
This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:
"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me,
I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this.. They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!" When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something! FAITH sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!
All right, now that you're done reading, pass on the message! I think everyone should read this! "When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say, "Jesus, could you get that for me?"
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If you have checked a couple of my other comments on this blog you can probably guess that I can relate to the guy that is getting tired of the church routine.
I don't think church is just about providing nourishment and proping up the saints for the next big trial. Us beleivers should be awesome dudes having an impact sharing God's love and the good news about Jesus. I don't think the church does a good job of helping us grow and develop the ability to use all that God has given us. We end up getting overstuffed and feel the need to push away from the table. There has to be a balance between taking in nourishment practical action or spirit filled service. If your church is good at that I might move to Melbourne!
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