Looking out

Don't ask me how or why but for some reason we as a church fell into this state of going through the motions without seeing what was wrong with both the church and community. Everywhere you look there are signs of massive decay and somehow we just didn't notice or acknowledge any sort of problem. We went through the motions, we thought that since "God provides" that somehow things would get better. Even when the church burned we didn't notice just how far we had fallen into the religion trap... you know what I mean by that don't you? We would meet, sing a song, say a prayer, listen to a sermon and go home till next week with the idea that we were serving God by doing this.

The trouble is we were doing acts of worship without works of faith so you might say the church was in a "persistant vegetative state," we were there but it didn't mean much. As a church we started to see what we had become when "clean-up day" arrived and only five people showed up!

Later in the week I was talking to friends of mine and lamented on the condition of the church. I didn't really ask them but Kimberly said she would like to come back to the church to help rebuild it. What a shock! I had not considered asking any of the old members to do anything before. Afterall, they had left the church so it wasn't their problem right? When I walked into my study later that evening a verse of scripture came to me; Galations 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Dear God in heaven, forgive us for our sins,
Help us to be what you want us to be,
Provide us with brothers and sisters in Christ,
Aid us while we seek to do your work,
Even as we now thank you for the work you
have already done.
In Jesus name we pray, Amen.