I have been regularly attending Bethel Church for close a year now. It is an amazing fellowship that I have really been blessed to attend. The past couple of weeks I have really been struggling with attending church for some reason. With everything that has been keeping me busy lately it has just felt like another thing on my list of "to do" items. I really was looking for some inspiration to refuel my fire and I came across the following article:
A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of the 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 what the menu was 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 those meals, I would be dead today."
No comments were made on the sermon contents anymore.
2 comments:
January 20, 2009 at 1:47 PM
yeah, many people view it going to church in a "what's in it for me?" attitude. They don't think about how they might be blessing to others. Sometimes without even knowing it. I get excited about going to church, if I don't go, I might miss out on something great.
I want all that the Lord has for me, and if I skip out on church, I may have missed it!!!
January 24, 2009 at 10:23 PM
WOW!!!!
That is a GREAT article.
I think the guy writing the letter to the editor was having a bad day.
Don't miss church, food for the soul.
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