A thought by Leonard Sweet, (2012-03-13) from his
book, What Matters Most: How We Got the Point but Missed the Person (Kindle Locations 780-781). Random House, Inc..
Kindle Edition.
I
have just come to really realize this fact.
Margaret and I are in a new city and we are in the process of making
some new friends; I in my Starbucks world and she in her work world but not in
our church world. We have been driving
60 miles to attend one of the greatest churches in the world and sitting and
being taught and challenged by one of the great pastors of our day but we have
made no new friends. And he challenged
us this week to the fact that this is wrong.
On
our drive home from church Saturday night, Margaret and I both agreed that we
needed to find a church closer to where we live. Pastor Rick said that each one of us would go
through this year some kind of crisis where we would need a support group. We thought about the fact that if something
happened to us, we wouldn’t even have a Pastor to call on for support or a
group of Christians who would be there in our time of need.
You
see, church is not just a great Pastor or great music but it is people, it is
relationships. Do you know anyone who
would be there when you are hurting or when you are in a financial crisis or
relational crisis? Do you? Oh you may have a lot of friends but they may
be friends who don’t even know how to pray, I mean really pray and there are
times I need someone to really pray for me.
I don’t mean over the phone but right there beside my sick bed or there
in my front room when my life is falling apart or when I have lost my job or
whatever. Do you have friends like that?
Well
we are headed to PazNaz this week. It is
a large church and we will at some point break it down to a small group but at
least it is closer to home. We will also
transfer our membership from New York. It
is a start. It is what we want to do and
we need to do.
What
about you?
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