WITH Christmas Midnight Mass and other church services being held across the country, the time is perhaps suitable to introduce this piece about a churchgoer.
A churchgoer 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 know this….
“They (the meals) 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!”
If you regularly attend a Church and you feel dry spiritually, time to have a word
with your (1) pastor (2) with the Lord, it may be sometime that one might consider .
visiting other Churches (not always a good thing). The ultimate consideration, be
Baptized, be filled with the ‘Holy Spirit’ keep reading your Bible, then see what happens.
Be Blessed my friends – Lift Jesus higher. HAPPY NEW YEAR.