Imagine that this group of people works together, struggles together, rejoices together and grows together. They don't judge each other. When one is down, they all rally together. If one is weak, they let them do what they can and don't expect too much of them. It feels like no family that I've ever heard of. It is the family that everyone wishes for.
This description is the place everyone must find. They may find it in a building on Sunday morning or they may find it at their neighbor's house or perhaps in their own home on a daily basis. The Bible says that Jesus is wherever two or more are gathered in his name. He didn't say it had to be a building with a name. He never said there needed to be hundreds or thousands of people there.
Your church is the place where you are loved and love in return even if you don't name that place. If you go to judge and gossip together you are like everyone who gets together to judge and gossip. If you go to lift each other up, you create a place where people can be safe to grow, fail, and succeed.
I don't go to your church. In fact, because of my diseases church was not the safe place it was supposed to be. I felt like a fish in a cloudy fishbowl, everyone looking in and not really knowing what they were looking at. I was cared for more by the people who I worked with on a daily basis than the people who went to my "church" and were supposed to be full of love.
It doesn't matter what a person looks like, what they've done, where they go. . . . At the end of the day, people are people and they want to be cared about and loved. They want to know they are not alone in their journey. They want to be remembered and not forgotten. They want people to notice if they haven't been around rather than judge why they haven't been around.
People often feel alone. Those that look confident may not feel it. Those who look happy may actually be sad. Those who look successful may be searching for peace. Simply be there for people and love, create a safe place for your neighbor and you to grow.
This description is the place everyone must find. They may find it in a building on Sunday morning or they may find it at their neighbor's house or perhaps in their own home on a daily basis. The Bible says that Jesus is wherever two or more are gathered in his name. He didn't say it had to be a building with a name. He never said there needed to be hundreds or thousands of people there.
Your church is the place where you are loved and love in return even if you don't name that place. If you go to judge and gossip together you are like everyone who gets together to judge and gossip. If you go to lift each other up, you create a place where people can be safe to grow, fail, and succeed.
I don't go to your church. In fact, because of my diseases church was not the safe place it was supposed to be. I felt like a fish in a cloudy fishbowl, everyone looking in and not really knowing what they were looking at. I was cared for more by the people who I worked with on a daily basis than the people who went to my "church" and were supposed to be full of love.
It doesn't matter what a person looks like, what they've done, where they go. . . . At the end of the day, people are people and they want to be cared about and loved. They want to know they are not alone in their journey. They want to be remembered and not forgotten. They want people to notice if they haven't been around rather than judge why they haven't been around.
People often feel alone. Those that look confident may not feel it. Those who look happy may actually be sad. Those who look successful may be searching for peace. Simply be there for people and love, create a safe place for your neighbor and you to grow.
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