Post by George on Oct 19, 2005 12:39:52 GMT -5
I thought I would share something I read this morning with you brothers and sisters. I find it quite interesting and quite true.
Why go to Church?
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!
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!
Yours in Christ,
George
Why go to Church?
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!
Yours in Christ,
George
And the hardships a, modest, covered, non TV/ Video watching, proper music, stay at home wife and mama, quiver full, non dating, against foolishness, football and the like, has to go through, is dammaging to the family and not worth all the ungodly upset that shouldn't be named in the House of the Living God. Amen and Amen ! God help us. 
I don't know.
It is not always blatantly so, but the underlying current is there nonetheless. I see it...you've seen it...it's simply there and I am as much at a loss for taking it under control as I was months ago. Things change, and that has been good, but maybe I simply expect too much too soon? The Lord is showing me daily areas that I need to attend to in my own life. Perhaps hindering the results I so want in the rest of my life.
I just wanted to say thank you. I needed to get this off my heart and release it to the Lod. Your comments helped me do so.
Your friend, ~ Darlene ~