Wednesday Word for March 2nd
Letter to the editor: Why go to church?
"I've been going to church for 30 years now 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 going to church every Sunday, and my pastor is wasting his time by preparing and giving sermons at all."
This ‘Letter to the Editor’ started a real controversy, sparking many in the community to ‘chime in’ on the conversation. After four weeks, this person’s response kinda sums it up…
"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 provided these meals, I would be ‘physically dead’ today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for spiritual nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"
Are you going through the motions?? Showing up for ‘church’ is maybe half the battle. But, are you showing up wanting to ‘experience’ God, via the pastor’s sermon, the hymns of praise or even through a friendly smile from the usher at the front door? Ask God through the Holy Sprit to speak to you today. He will.
“And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe.”
1 Thessalonians 2:13 NIV
Thanks to Wendy M. from Lexington for posting this on Facebook.
~Verne
