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!
thedailylily.com 
thanks for reminding us just how important church is to our wholeness especially in a busy season like now candy, cake, coffee and other such things seemly seem more important than nourishment for the soul. Hopefully, I will remember when I feel like sleeping in is better.
Check out the news article here on “Homemade Gifts” and find out how to make a church mouse!
Good article and response from that gentleman in the news column, Stacie. The things that we train ourselves to do for the good….like the book of Proverbs says…”train up a child in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart from that way”(Prov. 22:6) will be with us to help us in every STAGE of our lives. The book of Hebrews (10:25) admonishes us to NOT neglect the assembling of ourselves together in fellowship under the WORD of GOD. The Word of God is the seed which is planted in our hearts and going to church regularly waters that seed so that faith grows and flouishes in our lives….and Heaven knows we need faith…TRUST..in the Living God. Jesus said…”When I return will I find Faith in the earth?” Oh yes, LORD JESUS! May we be among those in whom You will find GREAT FAITH.
Thanks Stacie for sharing this healthy advice on what to feed and nourish ourselves with. And thanks to Jersey for tieing in and reminding us in her reply to the news article “The Worst Things You Can Do to Your Body” that ‘you are what you eat’. Looks like we will become what we allow to enter our minds, bodies and spirit.
And that’s right back to Sara’s GP article “Be”.
There’s a choice for us…what will we be? GN or GP?
We all need to be reminded of how important it is to go to chuch. We need to “soak” up every sermon on God’s Word that we can. The Word of God is a double edged sword and gives up the weapon to use when “hardships” happen. (no one is exempt from hardships!)